Randoms #3

All faithful followers of my blog will know what my Random posts are about. Although people who do not regularly check my blog deserve to be punished I will not punish them. I will fill them in. Random posts are posts that contain pictures of things that really did not fit into any other post. So they are basically posts of just pictures with a short explanation about the pictures. They are sometimes groups of pictures taken over a period of months. This one contains pictures from my first week in Magdeburg and pictures that have been recently taken. I figured I should post them quick before I ended up with a post that contained 50 pictures. Here they are. I hope you enjoy the randomness.

This is my Schultüte. It is a tradition in Germany to give this to a child on their first day of school so that they can bring it to school with them. I woke up to this on my first day of German college. They are always a paper or cardboard cone with treats inside. They have so many themes for Schultüten but mine was Max und Moritz themed which is a very well known German child's story. I did not bring the Schultüte to school but it was still awesome that I got one even if they are really only for little kids. 

Kinder Überraschung Eier!!!! Some of you may already know how obsessed with these I am. They are a chocolate egg with a toy inside them...now don't even start comparing them to the short-lived Nestle Wonderball. The Nestle Wonderball had stupid toys inside but Kinder Überraschung Eier always have super awesome toys. For instance, I got a little alien dude one time with a head like a paintbrush. He also came with a sheet of water color. So I could paint with my little alien! They are illegal in the US because of irresponsible parents who didn't watch their children. The children ate the toys and choked on them so those bad parents ruined it for everyone. Everyone knows that if you can fit an object through a toilet paper roll that it poses a risk of choking so those parents should have known better. These were Christmas themed Kinder Überraschung Eier. 

While visiting the local electronic store, we stumbled across this life size Doby...he lives!

The words on the window do not continue to the right so yes, it really says that and no, speaking German is not an excuse because they know what that word means.

One morning I woke up to a world covered in frost. I walked by this spider web perfectly frosted and just had to take a picture.  

All sliced white bread in Germany is referred to as "American Style". It is so funny. 

Many people have heard of Ampelmänner which are the little men in the walk signals in Germany. I noticed one day that we had female versions with pig tails in Magdeburg. Ampelmädchen! 

We have a lot of really great graffiti artists in Magdeburg. The Dom is a constant construction site and this yellow barrel was laying out one day by the Dom so a graffiti artist decided to make it a bit more interesting. 

Döner shops are a dime a dozen in Germany but Magdeburg has a Döner shop that makes you feel like you are in a cave. They had stalactites all over the place.

This was a picture I took through my blinds. German blinds have these little openings in them so the light was coming through just perfectly...and I was bored so I wanted to take a picture. 

One of the restaurants in Magdeburg. As you may have guessed, their dishes are mostly chicken. 

Me and my first spaghetti Eis. It will proabably also be my last spaghetti Eis. There was so much of it and the center was filled with whipped cream...and not just any whipped cream. It was that super thick whipped cream that sticks to the top of your mouth even after it is long gone. I had to have it at least once while I was in Germany though. If you don't know what it is, it is ice cream pushed through a spaghetti press and topped with strawberry sauce so it is ice cream that looks just like spaghetti.