Hey gang, so yesterday was the perfect fall day. I'm not quite sure if it could have been more beautiful. At 70F, sunny, fall-a-rific, and perfect, nature was calling, so Lisa, Louise, Lasse, Hannah, and I went for a 5 hour or so hike. We had intended upon walking to Bebenhausen, a tiny town north of Tübingen known for its castle, from Fichtenweg and then finding a trail head for a 5km hike, which probably would have made the entire trip somewhere around 10-ish km. However, upon reaching Bebenhausen, we decided to just travel along a random trail. But Bebenhausen is in the middle of Schönbuch Nature Park, so there were plenty of places for our Wanderung. We set out, and it was quite the lovely time. Plenty of beautiful leaves all over the ground, which were quite fun to jump in. Although we wished we had had a rake so that we could have made piles. All in all, our hike ended up being probably close 20km or so, but that's OK, because the sun was shining, it was warm, and the leaves were perfect.
To continue our perfect fall day, we decided upon returning to Tübingen that we were going to carve pumpkins, eat pumpkin things and candy, and watch scary movies. It was a wonderful Saturday night. We arrived back in Tübingen around 6:30, when I promptly went to Rewe, found a pumpkin, went home and showered, went to Kaufland to buy pumpkin stew ingredients, and quickly made my way over to Lisa's WG. When I got there, everyone was showering, and the candy was in a bucket (which was awesome). So I started cutting up vegetables for pumpkin stew. Also they don't have canned pumpkin on this continent, so that made things slightly more difficult. But between Louise and myself, we cut up all of the pumpkin and mashed it into a stew kind of thing. Her housemates were particularly nice about letting me take over their kitchen, as well, which is always a good thing. All in all, for my first foray into the world of fall vegetable stew without a recipe, I'd say it turned out pretty well.
Then came the pumpkin carving, which was lovely as well. We had four pumpkins for the six of us (Anna came over as well). So Lasse and Lisa worked together on one, while Anna and I carved the pumpkin I bought. It was also the first time Anna or Lasse had carved a pumpkin, and Louise said she had carved one only once before when she was really little. So it was great to bring a good part of America to Europe. Seeing them both dig into a pumpkin for the first time was also pretty funny. We ended up carving an owl (Hannah), a fox, as in the Ylvis fox (Anna and I), Jack Skellington (Louise), and Eric Cartman (Lisa and Lasse). And my God, did they all turn out so well! Lisa's German roommates were quite impressed, in addition to being amused by our American antics, and I would say it's definitely the highlight of my pumpkin-carving career. 
After the pumpkin extravaganza and eating LOTS of frozen pizza (yes, in addition to the stew, we ate no fewer than 5 frozen pizzas), we decided to watch a scary movie. Lisa, our scary movie connoisseur decided to have us watch The Conjuring, which is a shitty movie set in the 1970s about a house in Rhode Island haunted by multiple demonic spirits, which a nice family of 7 decided to buy. It was pretty bad, but also ridiculously terrifying. I maybe watched 1/3 of it, and the rest of the time my face was behind my sweatshirt or the duvet cover. The walk home was also mildly terrifying.
So yup, that's about what I got for you. There are sure to be more Halloween-related shenanigans, as the Tufts Kinder are throwing a Halloween party at Marlena's on Thursday for a combination of Deutsch Kompakt Kinder, START Kurs Kinder, and random German folks that we know. It promises to be a regular old riot. So bis später, Kinder.
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