A Day of Rest to Recover From a Day of Rest

Oh the Sundays and Mondays of Deutschland! They rate top on the list of the most boring days of the week. Sundays, Elise and I wear pajamas all day and have marathons of Grey's Anatomy while snacking on our most favourite chocolate, milka. So you would think when Monday rolls around and everything is back up and booming in town we would take full advantage, but this is not the case. We take this extra day to continue to be lazy so we may recover from the ultimate day of laziness from the day before. We indeed cannot be as lazy as Sunday though so we did make a slight effort to go out for a little while. Elise and I decided to head out to Ikea for a little look around since that is one of Elise's most favourite places and I have to say I do quite enjoy it as well. The ticket machine at the train station seemed to be broken but we decided to take our luck and hope the the machine on the train would be just fine. We hopped in one of the ends of the train and to our displeasure the machine was out of service; it seems like most of the time the ticket machines are out of service in Germany. We quickly hopped off and ran to a different section of the train. We almost didn't make it but then a nice German guy half put his body in the door way so we would make it. Ikea wasn't as great as we expected, it was still excellent but it must have been half the size of the one in Vancouver so we were slightly disappointed. Elise and I decided that this evening we would do some baking so we picked up a banking pan and also another pillow for myself since mine is pretty crappy. On our way home we stopped at the grocery store, Real, so we could pick up the ingredients to make boterkoek. Two things I hate about German grocery stores, is firstly everything is impossible to find and secondly selection can be quite limited. The baking section was the worst. There was a million different kinds of canned milk but hardly any baking ingredients. They did not have almond extract or any extracts for that matter. I don't even know how Germans bake. We never found any so we could not bake this evening which is what I had been looking forward to, possibly tomorrow. Instead we cut up a baguette had it Camembert cheese and tomatoes or Nutella. We ate and enjoyed the rest of our night watching Grey's Anatomy once again.