Oh yah, you betcha!

With the help of my mom and a coincidental conversation she had at a neighborhood block party, I've met yet another South Dakotan here in Germany! The daughter of mom's neighbors, F., is living in a suburb roughly 15 minutes from mine! It's great to make another connection and hey, if a new friend happens to hail (even just originally, like F.) from South Dakota, well all the better! (M. might disagree just a tad...our first acquaintance from Custer, South Dakota, made quite an impression on M. when she ran smack into his parked car on Christmas Day...with M. riding shotgun! Yeaaah....) ANYWAY, M. was willing to give we blond South Dakotans ("geez, is everybody from South Dakota blond?") one more chance as he was in town and we ventured out to the local Weinfest as a group last night...a little too early, it turns out. We arrived just as the early bird special crowd was arriving...ehh, hmmm. There was plenty of polka, though, and hey, there's nothing like polka to get you into the mood to party, right? Hmm. Well, it was gonna take a little more than that to kick things into gear for us, so we passed on the Weinfest. Fortunately for us, there are several really good restaurants on the town square in my suburb, which also happens to be walking distance from my apartment. We found a great Italian restaurant and sat out on the square for dinner. It was a great meal and a ton of laughs...here's to coincidence and new friends!