May Day

No, I am not sending out an S.O.S.  Today is May Day here in Germany, an official public holiday.  As such, no school, no work, no nothing.  We have had pretty crummy weather this whole week, with clouds, cooler temperatures and rain.  However, Carsten said May 1st would have beautiful weather.  According to him, May 1st is his fathers birthday and has always been a beautiful day.  Well, Carsten was right!  The weather today is amazing.  Sunny and warm, but not too hot.  Now, the down-side of today is that my allergies are in high gear and kicking my butt at the moment.  Anyway, since we had a bonus free today we decided to go for a bike ride and to a nearby zoo.  Because, when you are suffering from allergies that just makes sense :)  Anyway, the name of the place is Mundenhof.  I was there once before back in 2005 when I had come to visit Carsten.  Not much has changed since then.  One of the neat things was a horse show that was happening, so we sat down and watched some of it.  To see pictures from the horse show and the rest of our time at the zoo, click here.  After the zoo we took a small bike tour around Frieburg.  The weather was just so perfect, though my sinuses were really having a difficult time by this point.  Once we finally made it back home, I basically just laid in bed or on the couch.  I didn't start getting allergies until 2000 when I moved to Chicago and every year since they have become progressively worse.  I had hoped that with this move to a cleaner place things might improve, but that does not seem to be the case.