Kneipsches Bad

These days the frost in the morning is so thick you can see the crystals on every blade of grass, every wooden fence, and if you stay outside long enough, on the tip of your nose. And the frost doesn't melt during the course of the day. There's just as much frost at 3:30 in the afternoon when the sun goes down as there was at 8:30 in the morning when the sun rose. The biting wind doesn't seem to stop at your skin, but blows right through your blood to your bones and back out the other side. You're crazy to go out without thick tights under your pants, a thick coat, hat, gloves, scarf, a couple of wool sweaters, thick socks and insulated boots. But the sun still shines often. You can't imagine how the rays dance on the frosty crystals and how your breath almost freezes solid in mid air as it leaves your nose and mouth.
As I tell you this next thing, keep in mind the above weather conditions. Patrick and Matthias like to drive to the lake around 8:00pm and jump in once, twice, or even three times, and then come back home and take a hot shower. With every evening that they go and come back, they do seem a bit stupider. I think some of their brain cells freeze and then die every time. That's why they continue to do it. Matthias says he wants to do it all winter long about 3 times a week.
As for the apartment, we found a better, but smaller and cheaper apartment. We haven't moved in yet. The beginning of next week though if everything works out with it. It's on the third floor (which makes me feel better, because no one can break in, but makes me nervous about Ammon falling out the window. So, I'm getting chains for all the windows so he can't open them more than a few inches. The view is nice, we look out our living room and see trees and a park. The windows are low to the ground, so you can sit on the couch in front of the window and have the sill right by you and look out. Ammon has a little tiny room big enough for a bed, a shelf, and a toy box. We have a room to ourselves for once, and then a living room, a kitchen, and a bathroom with a tub. Everyone is donating things to us. The address is Legienstrasse still, but it's number 17 instead of 21. Just once house down, and on the 3rd floor. You'll all have to come visit soon. It would be fun to show you around. You can experience how we live here.