Football

I've tried to watch one game of American football before yesterday's experience. Didn't get much out of it, but at least it was soon over. Since I'm here, I decided that I have to give it another try. After an hour and a half the game was halfway through. We left the arena to go have a glass of wine at a friend's room :) This time I got a sense of what was going on but most of the time I couldn't see where the ball was. And why did those guys just jump on each other even though the ball was in the other end of the field? (Well, most of the time the ball stayed on one end of the field- the one where it shouldn't have, from the point of view of "us Vandal fans".) Anyway, we decided that this is a good activity for hyperactive Americans. Cheerleaders, marching band, advertisements, cheerful music all going on at once. Might not go see the next game ;)

Yesterday we also went picking some apples, which was kind of nice. The views driving up to Garfield, WA were pretty (yes, still mostly wheat fields) and the apples tasted good. There's still only so much a person can eat... We also pressed some of our own "apple cider" (that's what they call apple juice here, hard cider is the kind with alcohol, very rare here) which we heated this morning to get rid of possible germs. It smells really good and reminds me of childhood.

It's weird to look at the trees changing color here. During the day the temperature still rises to over 20 degrees Celsius but it can go below zero at night. So the trees are getting yellow and orange etc. but most of the time the weather isn't the kind I'm used to at home.