Friday night was a girls' night at Wini's apartment. Mandy, Wini, Barbara, and I went out and bought pizzas and something that's kind of like beer and lemonade. It's called Radler and I pretty much don't like it. It kind of tastes a Corona with a slice of lemon. I managed to get through about a third of a liter, but then I had to pass it off to Mandy. The pizza turned out really good, but we kind of screwed up that whole "no meat on Fridays" during Lent. *shrug* Oh, well. There are benefits to being a Protestant. Then we played Apples to Apples, which is a very awesome game. Everybody has seven cards with a noun on each one, and then there is a green card with an adjective on it. Each person puts down a noun card that can be linked with the adjective card in any way, shape, or form, and then the judge/dealer decides who wins. The winner of the round gets the green card, and when you have seven green cards, you win the game. Then everybody is supposed to turn over their green cards and they're supposed to describe you. I had nice ones like classic. :-) Then we watched "John Tucker Must Die." And by the time we had done all of this, it was time to go home!
On Saturday, I was supposed to meet Mandy and go to see the Lipizanner but we both slept through it. That's okay, because they practice every Tuesday through Sunday. Instead, we met around two to go to Apassionata, which was kind of like a musical interpretation of the seasons with dancers and horses. That's the best way I can describe it, but it was beautiful. I took a bunch of pictures, but the videos were better because then my hands could be a little shaky and they didn't get blurry. Stay posted for a YouTube link where I'll post all my videos from that and other adventures in Austria.
Some more info on Apassionata, taken from their site:
Facts and Figures
• 85 crew members (100 including set-up crew)
• 60 tons of sand (enough to cover a football pitch)
• 1,320 kg of straw (the volume of a detached house when not compressed)
• 80 bales of hay (would fill two garages if not compressed)
• 600 kg of horse muesli (weight of a VW Golf)
• 4 horse trucks
• 7 horse transporters
• 55x9m stage curtains (enough to envelop the Brandenburg Gate)
• 1,100 m² of rubber sheets as riding surface (enough to cover an ice hockey pitch)
• 1,000 m² of groundsheet tarpaulin
• 7 trucks for technical equipment, stable tent and props
• One stable tent measuring 70x20m, one warm-up arena measuring 15x20m
Then we had all these grand plans to go out for dinner and ice skating with the other girls, but that kind of got nixed because it was too cold. So we all went our own ways, and decided to postpone until tonight. So tonight we're going for hot chocolate and then ice skating because it's cheaper after ten.
And those are all the highlights of my week. We're planning a long weekend in Amsterdam in late April so we can see the tulips in bloom. So I get to play travel agent, especially if we get to have group discounts...
Love,
Amanda
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