Laura Beth in Germany

The long-awaited debut of my vacuum modeling career: http://sprintus.eu/d_film_n30. html For all of those who weren't sure you needed a professional-grade, super-silent, high-performance cleaning machine with multiple functions for wet and dry applications... consider yourself converted.

[Webster] Paige is here visiting! She arrived after a long bus ride from Paris on Thursday. I came home to her snuggled in our guest bed, and since then we've been catching up on life and exploring different things.   We spent Friday night in Karlsruhe at the "Parking Lot Festival" - a giant student-organized event which Annika helped put together this year. We got to see her for about 1/2 an hour before she had to scurry off and complete more official duties. Paige and I danced furiously to the live Ska music, drank wine spritzers with the boys, and at the end of the evening, watched the remaining festivities from the balcony atop one of the dorm buildings. Then we biked back to our friend Felix's house to spend the night. The cops stopped us in their big van to see if we were driving drunk (in Germany you can have a vehicle driver's license taken away for driving a bicycle drunk). I spoke with them quite calmly and convinced them that Fabi was in full cont

Being purely responsible adults is never satisfactory in the long run. This past weekend, Fabi and I felt the urge to get OUT of our little "hometown" and see something new. We both had a 4-day weekend, so we planned to go to Dresden and Weimar. But due to a funeral on Friday, our plans fell through. Then our friend Jessi saved the day by offering us a free stay in her Berlin apartment while she traveled to Amsterdam for the weekend. So we hopped in our car and drove to Berlin!   It rained nonstop the entire six hour drive. And not just a shower - we're talking downpour! Anyone who has seen the weather forecast - or at this point, major European headlines - knows that Germany had extreme flooding this week. In Dresden, college kids have reported their cars being washed away, and some cities have lost power. Luckily, our route took us through and above the rain, but the drive was quite stressful for Fabi. Kudos to him for holding out!   We arrived on Friday and