Edinburgh, Snow and not working

I was reading a Marie Claire that I get delivered and I read this quote from a woman who moved to Paris and she was asked what she missed most. I thought this pretty much summed up my feelings. 

"What I miss most about home: Wearing workout clothes in public; Aeda conditioner; corn torillas, smiling at strangers without having them think I'm insane."

I read that and thought. Wow. Someone else feels that way too! You wouldn't catch anyone here doing errands in there sweats. Not even "good sweats". It is exhausting to watch! I have not given it up and we get weird looks just walking to the gym in sweats!

Last week my Mom came for a visit! We were so excited to have our first visitor! She was brave enough to stay with us (our pull out is VERY comfortable) and we were so happy to have her. We went to Edinburgh for a few days and had a great town. Edinburgh is a great town and we were able to take a day trip to see Lock and Ben Lomond (lake and mountain Lomond) we also saw Stirling Castle which was beautiful. I would highly recommend Scotland and Edinburgh for anyone who is traveling. A special thanks to my Mom for bringing out so many of my purchases as well as a wonderful and restorative visit.

Matt's coworker is in town and wanted to go out tonight so we ended up going to a delicious steak restaurant (Dad, I am sorry. I got it well done or according to the waiter "burnt"). After that we went to a club in Frankfurt called XXL Living. It was packed. It was a rainy Wednesday and it was so busy it was shocking. Now, we aren't what you call crazy bar rats but we don't usually go out during the week. We also do go to clubs on the weekend but I was shocked at how busy it was! We only stayed for a little bit but we were able to hear a few choice songs "I will Survive" by Gloria Gaynor, the polka version of "I will Survive" (not quite sure does this) and when we left we left to "La Bamba". We saw some typical German dancing (stiff bodied and head bobbing) and lots of tight jeans (men and woman). So needless to say we were happy to be home by 10:30!

I am going to talk about the next thing in a way that will not get me in trouble. I have been "watching" a little girl a few days a week. It has been a great **non-paying** (because I of course I would not take a paying job here) way to pass the time. So as I said this is not a job just a great way to pass the time while we are here!

As well, over the weekend we were talking to Matt's co-worker about how we haven't seen any snow in Frankfurt and have only had a few weeks that were really really cold. Well, all that bragging came back to bite us because we had snow on the rooftops on Monday! It continued to snow all day but luckily nothing stuck. That was the first time I have seen snow for more than 5 minutes in Frankfurt! The weird part is that the previous Sunday we had 70 degree weather with sun! It was the first day my Mom got here so we were able to show her a wonderful time around the city!