Tuesday, June 1, 2010

May: Spandex

May...I thought I knew ya...

That title comes from this thing I started saying when I discover something is quite different than I had previously imagined it to be. Like, May has been really cold and rainy, so I might look out the window and say, "May, I never knew ya," or "May, I thought I knew ya." Is this a thing? It seems so familiar a phrase but I think I'm a few words off. Anyway, I don't really know May or what we did during the month of May. We searched and searched for a new apartment and finally found one that we love. We moved into said apartment. The charming girls Beccah (Brooklyn), Ilana (Ann Arbor) and Sarah (Austin en route to Boston) came to visit Berlin. Our super amazing friends Sam and Roni moved away (sad), but had a spandex themed going away party (awesome). We got haircuts. But they weren't very drastic.
Hopefully I'll think of something else to redeem the last 31 days of our lives.

Tosca and Tiergarten


Tosca and Tiergarten


Holly Mae's 30th

Holly Mae's 30th

Holly Mae joined the ranks of 30-somethings and we celebrated at Maria Peligro for some Mexican comida and margaritas. We also went to see Tosca the following Sunday at the Staatsoper Berlin, a beautiful and surprisingly petite opera house in former East Berlin. We dressed-up fancy, then went to the Tiergarten for a ukulele jam/fingernail painting session (they seem mutually exclusive and yet somehow coexist nicely). Time flies when you're playing ukulele, so we had to take a cab to the opera and change into our high heels in the ride over. We made it just in time and enjoyed a lovely evening of Italian arias and intermission pretzels.