To celebrate our anniversary, Andreas and I headed down south to visit the Bärenhöhle cave. This might not be a common activity that couples do to celebrate their steamy man love, but it sounded like a good idea at the time. Unfortunately, the cave itself was a bit boring. I was expecting trippy colored lights and innumerable mysterious passageways, but instead it was a very straight forward affair. There weren’t even any rock formations that resembled other things. Sure the tour guide would point at something and say it looked like a ship, horse, pencil, or fried egg, but it was obvious she was grasping at straws. They could have at least piped in some “Hall of the Mountain King” to add atmosphere. Luckily the nearby town of Reutlingen was cool. There was plenty of shopping and Andreas scored a new bus for his collection.

We searched high and low for a place to eat that night, finally settling on a sushi joint since I was hoping to score some sake. We don’t eat sushi often, and the places we have eaten at were pretty classy. This was the first restaurant we had even been to with a sushi train. That’s what I call it anyway. One of those conveyor belt things that your food rides along. It was really a really fun experience and they often switched up the offerings, so there were always new surprised. For only the second time in my life, I ate so much that I almost tossed. Charming story, no? Despite my description, it was a very romantic day for us.