Thursday we traveled to Lohman Animal Health which is a German based company that focuses on preventative medicine for chickens and food safety. Then we went to LAVES to visit the "Veterinarunter Suchungsamt" where we toured the facility that is primarily involved with food safety and testing.... Then we went into the little town of Cuxhaven and had a FANTASTIC meal at a local restaurant that serves tons of varieties of fresh fish! LAVES paid for our goumet halibout dish... I've never knew fish could taste so good!
We made our way to Bremen, Germany where we toured the city and all the tiny little streets... We also learned about the story of the Musicians who came from Bremen. You might remember a fairy tale about the donkey, dog, cat and chicken who decide to be musicians? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_Musicians_of_Bremen The town is covered in statues of these characters...
We ate dinner in the old town hall (Rat House) of Bremen built in 1405... In fact, it is common that there is a cellar underneath these big important city buildings and they usually have a restaurant called the Ratskellar. I had breaded porkchops with a baked potato and veggies, paired with a fantastic sweet Reisling. Of course we had to have dessert and I devoured a nougat tarte with marzipan, strawberry sauce and lemon sorbet. :)Yesterday we spent time in the bovine clinic here at the vet school in Hannover and we saw a severe case of foot rot in a pregnant cow who had to have most of here medial toes amputated! We also watched a standing surgery of a cow who had "traumatic reticular peritonitis" or basically "hardware disease" where a cow eats some sharp foreign object and it punctures the reticulum (one part of the 4-part stomach).
We ended the afternoon with a stroll through the Herrenhauser Gardens... These were once royal gardens and are bigger than the ones in Versailles! It was a huge place with little secret gardens, statues and of course fountains galore. They only run twice a day, so I'm glad we stayed around to watch them go off!
Night followed with the much anticipated opera, "Carmen." Jasmin joined us!! It was quite the experience... as Chris would say, "it was very visual."In fact, it was 100% visual since we couldn't understand any words because it was in sung in French and had German supertitles. The only clear phrase we could point out was "ich liebe dich," which means I love you... It was a modern spin on the original Carmen and Elvis definitely made his appearance much to our surprise. Live, love, tribulation and death... I think that sums it up nicely :)Now for our free weekend here with Jasmin in Hannover. It should be very relaxing with some shopping, a visit to the bovine clinic this evening and the lake tomorrow! (oh yeah... in regards to the title of the post... Jasmin is hosting 4 of us this weekend so she compared it to collecting McDonald's toys... "I'd like the blonde one, then the brown headed one, the one with glasses...") what a hoot!
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