Weekend Recap

This past weekend was a fairly busy one. On Friday there were three World Cup games playing I wanted to watch, Germany Vs. Serbia, the U.S. Vs. Slovenia, and England Vs. Algeria. For the first game the downtown cafe/bar/restauarant I went to was pretty packed, but it was fun watching it with a big group. Once that game ended with the German loss, the whole place cleared out. For the U.S. game a friend I'd met in a recent Stuttgart Orientation class met me, and an hour later, Shanna met us down there too. It was fun to watch, even if the U.S. was robbed of a victory.

When that game was over my friend had to leave, so Shanna & I ate dinner there, then walked up to Biddy Early's in Stuttgart. It's an Irish bar, and a co-worker of Shanna's was meeting us up there. It was fun...there were a lot of people from the U.K. there, so it *almost* felt like a bar back home. The England/Algeria game was on by the time we got there, and the place was packed. We were able to get a table & watch the game though. Next to our table a guy was there with friends for his birthday. One of the gifts he got was a huge 3 liter Paulaner glass with candy & other assorted goodies inside. I had to laugh when he took them all out, then asked the waitress if she could fill it up with Guiness. Yup, THREE LITERS of Guiness. That's a heavy beer to drink in a regular 12-16oz pint glass...I can't imagine 3L worth. I had to get a picture when the waitress came back.

After that we headed over to The Classic Rock bar, but I wasn't too impressed with it.  The music they played was a big mix, and I think only 1 song would actually qualify as classic rock (Steppenwolf's Born to be Wild).

Saturday was an interesting day.  When we moved over here Shanna had brought up that she wanted to get a camera that was a little nicer then your standard "point & shoot" for all the pictures we'd be taking over here.  After talking with some friends who were photography enthusiasts we settled on the Nikkon D40.  It's a GREAT camera, but the problem is we didn't know how to use most of the features beyond the "point & shoot" part.  This class was put on in the Arts & Crafts building (Shanna made a note of the location...she'll be back) by a contractor from MCdean.  Talk about a small world...he works with the daughter of a guy my Dad worked with in the Navy for years.  I've emailed her several times with questions both before we moved and after. 

Once we got signed in we found out that the one other person who was supposed to take the class had to drop out at the last minute.  Apparently (we over heard this part) she had severely twisted her ankle while shopping in the P/X.  How a person does that, I have no idea.  The benefit was we then got a 5 hour class with just us and the instructor...we progressed at our pace and didn't have to worry about other people moving at a slower pace, or getting concepts faster then we did.  It was definitely well worth the money...I know all about Aperture, Shutter Speed, and ISO settings now.  We're by no means experts, but we know a lot more then we did before. 

Sunday was more of a "stay at home & work" day.  That morning we drove over to one of the bases to check out the discount floor rugs they had, but were not impressed with the selection.  Then I went to another base to do some shopping for things we needed while Shanna stayed home and continued to unpack and organize things.

That's it for the weekend!  We're both excited because tonight a guy is coming out to set up our TV for us.  It requires mounting a satellite and the only way to do it and have it face the right direction is to get on the roof.  It's at a 45 degree angle, so I'll leave that to the experts. :)