New Layout!

Hello all hope you enjoy the more holiday themed layout. Ive given up trying to find a better layout that'll let me post my pictures properly. But you can just click on them and im pretty sure they'll take you to my photobucket page where you can get a better look at them. But yes to Christmas is less than two weeks away. Its a real head trip for me. It hardly feels like ive been here for that long but look on it now ive been in Würburg for almost 3 and a half months. Scarely feels that way. Time is just wizzing by with reckless abandon. The weeks seem to go by faster and faster. Its already saturday but it doesnt feel like a whole week pased since last saturday. I suppose its a good thing though, cause that means im having a good time and time flies when you're having fun. And truer words were never spoken. Last night we had a wine tasting for one of my classes. We It was held in the wine cellar of the big palace in Würzburg. The wines we had for tasting were 6 local Franconian wines, and one local sparkeling wine, all grown either in Würzburg or very near by. I would have to say that last night was one of the most fun nights ive had here in Würzburg. The wine was absolutly delicious. As most people know im not a wine guy, or at least i didnt used to be. But i would say after last night you can safely count me in the wine drinkers' camp. The six wines were on a sliding scale of price. We started off with a couple of the less expensive "thinking" wines, which were considered dry wines. Then the last two were very sweet very frutiy wines, ones you would probably serve to guests to impress them. But only one glass, cause any more and the sweetness would get to you. Or at least to me. So if anyone needs Franconian wine reccomendations, i would say i am at least partialy versed in the wines of this lovely loverly region of the world. Our Professor, who was running the wine tasting, gave very long excllent explainations of the different types of wine and the stories behind some of the different types, and how the wine cellar used to be used by the prince bishop of Würzburg and just generally the huge importance of Wine to this area. I do also recall him more than one boasting about how much better the wine here is to Italian and French wine. And i would be inclined to believe him. I mean Goethe used to order a yearly supply of Franconian wine numbering in the hundreds of liters. So if a living literary god orders that much wine from somewhere it must be some of the best wine anywhere. Hmm this speaking of wine has left me desiring a glass. But alas i gotta get back to my fun fun fun studying in the library. OH! and i got a new haircut. Its awesome, very German. If i didnt have a quite apparent American accent with my German one would almost think i belonged here. MERRY SOLSTICE!