Saturdays and the Gym

Oct. 13th 2007

Saturdays are somewhat thought of S-day. Shopping day. All stores are closed on Sunday except for convenience stores and apparently stores that sell wine. Which led us to notice a lot of wine stores that mainly sold other stuff, like the wine was a cover. But most of the stores at the train stations are open if you are in a pinch. So after we met with our landlady on Saturday morning (more on her in a minute) we went and did grocery shopping to get us through Sunday and Monday morning. Our landlady is Reneta Krause. She owns the actual apartment (not the building) and the one we share a foyer with and rents it out to companies. She also was telling us about her house they have in Alaska for fishing and how she rigged her Ford Explorer here to take gasoline instead of benzyne because it is cheaper. Needless to say an interesting lady. She was very helpful and had no problem getting new things for us if we were missing them, we realized afterwards that she just charges the company!!!
After that we went to the gym called Fitness Company. It is similar to a Gold’s Gym or something like that. It is about a 10 minute walk from our apartment so it is pretty convenient. We met with a trainer named Josip (Yosip) who liked a lot like Matt Swiss, but with a German accent! By the time we were done there we thought we would go to the English speaking movie theatre but were too tired!