The Forbidden Forest

Ok.  It was the Wiener Wald, not the Forbidden Forest.  But is was dark and foggy and treacherous and AMAZING.  We hiked 14 miles tonight with about ten people from IES and Tobi (an IES staff guy) and his dad, who was our guide.  It was so cool.  We walked through the woods and on country roads and through vineyards.  I know we were in another town at one point, but I don't know exactly where... We stopped at 8pm for about thirty minutes and had soup and cocoa, but the rest of the time we were hiking.  It is one of the best things I've done since I've been here, and I think Diana (Waltraud's daughter) and I are going to go again!

I forgot to tell the story of my missing tofu yesterday.  I went to my refrigerator one evening when I was particularly tired and had had a beer or two with friends, and I decided to make something with the tofu I had bought a few days ago.  It comes in a black plastic carton and is sealed in water with a clear plastic seal on top.  I looked at the carton and thought... Wait a second.  Where is the tofu? All I could see through the water was the black bottom of the container.  Surely my tofu was somewhere in there.  How could it just be full of water?  That is preposterous!   I put it back in the refrigerator and thought Ok I will come back in the morning, and maybe the tofu will be there.  Maybe I am just imagining this is happening.  I returned to the scene and couldn't believe that there was actually no tofu in my tofu box.  Nada.  Just tofu water to fool me into thinking it was heavy and full of tofu.  Now I have to go back to the grocery store and try to explain in broken German that there is no tofu in my tofu box...  Ahhh Vienna.