A few weeks ago about 10 people and I went camping for one night in the Black Forest. In a cabin of course, it would have been way too cold to do real camping in a tent. We left Saturday morning January 31st and headed off to Hinterzarten. It is a small town near Freiburg, only about 20 minutes away by train, and thankfully we could get there free with our semester tickets. Once we arrived in Hinterzarten the group decided we should walk to our destination which was like 30 minutes away! I really wanted to wait for the so called bus that would take us there, but then I got pressured into just following everyone else and walking to the cabin. It was really uncomfortable because we brought a ton of food with us so all of our bags were really heavy and the weather was pretty brisk too. My friend Shane was so funny, he called our friend Jason that morning asking what shoes he should wear, and Jason replied 'boots,' little did Shane think that he meant hiking boots so Shane shows up in nice going out boots, hahaha, and then walking for 30-45 minutes in the snow to our cabin. It was pretty comical. On our little hike we also saw some horses and tried petting them, and got into an argument because someone claimed horses love to eat sugar, and most of us disagreed, but turns out horses really do love sugar.
We finally arrived to our destination and it was such a cute little cabin, well actually a huge cabin, just looked small from the outside, it had 16 beds! We got into the cabin hoping for it to be warm so we could warm up a little bit from all the outdoor walking, but once we got inside there was absolutely no warmth. We had to start the fire ourselves, which proved really difficult because we were just piling on way too much wood in the fireplace. We tried using paper, cardboard, napkins...anything we could find to fuel the fire, none of it worked. The group decided to go on a 3 mile hike, but Shane, Kelly and myself didn't really feel like going outside in the cold again so we stayed behind and played cards. Once everyone was gone, a few people came to the cabin that had been staying there for a few days, and they helped us start the fire, the woman really knew what she was doing, and we were very grateful for that. The cabin finally started to warm up after about an hour. The three of us just sat and played cards until the rest of the group came back. It was really fun, we drank a ton of tea trying to warm our bodies up. Once everyone got back we made dinner, we were all scared we weren't going to have enough food for all of us because we didn't realize how many people were coming until last minute. Thank god we had a ton of ingredients to mix together, we made a big goulasch/pasta, it turned out actually very delicious. After dinner we all kind of hung out and played some card games. Then we had dessert of pudding and pears, yumm! After all that eating we brought out the wine and started playing some really fun card drinking games, it started getting really loud. We played spoons, which I haven't played since I was a kid, so much fun! A lot of people stayed up all night, but I decided on going to bed around 1 am, me and my friends just talked for a while before we fell asleep. It really sucked for us because we were the farthest room from the fireplace and so I was pretty frozen all night long.
In the morning we had pancakes and fruit salad and headed off down the trail back to Hinterzarten. It was such a fun day/night in the Black Forest, I was telling my friends I really want to get that cabin again in the summer!
Hope all is well and the weather is getting warmer back home! I miss you and love you all!
Auf Wiedersehen
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