Seafood Onion Rings

In our apartment, the floors are very creaky and loud when you step on them. As a result, Stephanie wakes up, and visa versa, whenever I get out of bed. I rarely sleep in and so this has cut into her sleeping pattern quite a bit. Today, I, in a vain attempt at giving Stephanie some more sleep, forced myself to stay in bed. I was able to sleep for most of the morning until the pillow on my head was unceremoniously thrown from me, exposing the light through the window. Steph thought I had left and "needed to check". So we were up early once more. We had bought a bag of mini Pain au Chocolat and have been faithfully eating them for breakfast. Much cheaper than buying them from a bakery but not as delicious. I checked my email and it turns out that I got the Au Pair job. One less stress for sure. We decided to watch some of our German cable as well for more German immersion. I watched the news for a good half hour and then Steph joined me for Schön und Reich, a German Soap Opera. I find it a lot easier to understand the German in soaps than the news, obviously. I wanted to take a trip to Ikea today as I discovered where it is but Steph had to do her laundry first. Normally, laundry takes about an hour to an hour and a half to do it at home but this is not the case in Germany. It takes about two hours per machine. We never actually got to go to Ikea. We wanted to get out and about anyway so we went to leave but we couldn't find our keys. After half an hour of searching for the keys in every inch of our apartment, Steph made a startling discovery: The keys were underneath her purse that she had thrown on the counter previously. What a relief. I was thinking up different scenarios of how I would tell our landlord that we lost both keys to his house and our apartment...in our apartment. After solemnly swearing we would keep the keys in my purse at all times, we were able to do our walk...which landed us in World Coffee. This coffee shop had it's menu in half English and half German and sold Hersey's Cookies and Cream chocolate bars (my favourite). It is a cute little place that is fairly inexpensive when compared to Starbucks. For dinner we decided to have Currywurst again because it is so delicious. Steph thought it would be nice to have onion rings with it as a one time treat. We picked out a bag but couldn't see the price of it. We decided to splurge a bit and buy it no matter how expensive. We were shocked to see that it was 9 euros for a bag and not even a big bag at that. We went home and Google Translated the instructions on the back. Turns out we had bought Squid Rings instead of onion rings. Now that I look back, perhaps we should have known because a) we bought it from the seafood section b) it had a lobster as a logo and c) 9 euros for onion rings? I felt pretty stupid afterward. It tasted like Calamari and it was so good so I didn't mind. After watching Date Night, we decided to go to bed early so we can be fully rested for Steph's job interview tomorrow.