March 22: When a Girl From Texas Comes To Town..

What happens when 2 girls from the same program are with each other in the same
city for a weekend?!

A lot of laughs, good times, and memories are created!

I was so blessed to have a visit from a fellow German Fed student, Steffi,
who studies at the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa! She is such a sweet
girl and we had a lot of fun together.

We had a proper Girls Weekend- chocolate covered strawberries, rice krispie
treats, face masks, chick-flicks, a trip to the thermal bath, sleeping in,
and good food! It was a much needed break from all the traveling and going
here and there.

The Thermal Bath was aaaaaamazing! It consists of 2 different giant swimming
pools where the water is really warm and is salt water. Your skin feels amazing
after and you're so relaxed from it being nice and warm.

But- what's a day at the thermal baths without making a fool of myself, right?
Well- one of the pools is an indoor/outdoor pool- and those from Michigan know
what I'm talking about when I say I got really excited to see this- the opportunity
to swim in a heated pool BUT outside! Yes please! Well, we were swimming around
outside (snow was still on the ground in areas) and I look over and see that there's
another pool that no one is in. Thinking Steffi and I could have a whole pool to
ourselves, I devise the plan to jump out of the warmth we were in, run to the next pool
and jump in there.

Only I jumped out into the cool.

Not only was I the only one to jump out, when I ran over (ok, maybe like 4 big
steps, but STILL) to the other pool, I discovered it wasn't heated. EEEEEEEP! I
yelled, taking a quick 180, I ran and jumped back into the heated pool. Just when
I thought it was bad enough Steffi was laughing at me, I hear an older couple
chuckling, and the man says to me (in German of course) "I bet that was a surprise
to find out it's cold over there!"

At least I spared the others that were in the pool from trying it, right?

Needless to say, that is one of the memories that will stick with us both from a
great weekend together!