Roller Coaster...

It seems like life just keeps getting better... then worse, then better again.... It's a bit of a rollercoaster. Speaking of, I'm supposed to be reading this book called The Roller Coaster Years, which is basically about parenting middle schoolers. The thing is I don't think the ups and downs of life ever stop, they just change. And, knowing myself the highs are high and the lows are low, I haven't really ever been able to meet the gentle rolling slopes type of life. Ahhh, what fun would that be anyways? Andrew arrived on Friday, I managed to get us to/from the airport with no major problems, it was really fun to be in Vienna with him, we met some friends of mine at the festival thing at the Rathous for dinner/drinks, which sadly closed yesterday. While we were at the airport I saw a sign for Starbucks, so of course we had to go, it's like I've been brainwashed by that place, I see the green little sign and NEED a latte, it's not even like I want it, I must have it in order for life to go on. Highlights of our trip... to start with it was the "real nice Avis guy" who gave us a printout to our hotel, only for us to arrive out in some suburb of Berlin to a neighborhood home, oops, there's two streets with the same name. Fortunately we were eventually able to find our hotel, right near the prostitutes, nope, I'm not kidding... it was hilarious. I must say, I did ask Andrew what type of place are we staying and if it's by the hour... I slept while we drove to Poznan, Poland the next morning at 5:30 or so, then we met up with some of Andrew's friends at our hotel, which was great, for breakfast and then went to the World Cup Rowing. I'd never been to anything like that before. We spent both Saturday and Sunday morning and afternoon watching the races, sitting in the sun, laying on the grass, it was great! After the races we grabbed lunch at the old square, went back to the hotel to relax and then met up again for dinner and drinks one night and then to watch the local soccer team and then dinner and drinks. I broke my two drink limit one night, only to find that it was pointless, I ordered a vodka soda and ended up with a large glass of straight vodka, I was home and asleep within the hour... The old square was beautiful, but there was this very large bra thing with a life size Arab man hanging from it like it was a parachute. Weird. We went out to this bar on Sunday night where all the rowers were, it was a pretty hilarious scene. While we were standing there this guy bit into his glass and a big chunk broke off in his mouth, I looked down at my foot a bit later and somehow the glass ended up in my foot and there was blood everywhere, nice. As I was attempting to get the glass out, I cut my finger. Genius. I left that night at midnight on a shuttle bus to the Berlin Airport, caught a 6:00am flight back to Vienna and had to go straight to work... then soccer practice, then picked up my keys to my new apartment. It was so nice when I finally got home, Steph was making dinner. Seriously, I may never leave even though I have a place of my own... Andrew gets back here tonight and then I leave in the morning for our 8th Grade Fall trip. I guess it's supposed to be raining, so I need to rethink my packing. Ugh. Part of me wishes I could somehow get out of the whole thing but that's not possible...