One of the things that I planned on doing is posting my post liposuction adventures so that all of you can see what’s possible as the fat comes off. Something that I’ve discovered, I’m really horrible at making content updates when it comes to my own projects and sites.
Well, here’s the good news. For the most part, I’ve managed to take plenty of photos of my post liposuction adventures so having actual things for you to look at isn’t a problem. Even better, I’ve promised myself to make at least 1 post a week until I’m caught up to fall 2017. So without further ado, here’s the rest of winter 2016/2017.
Orchideen Hoeve by Candle Light (December 2016)
If you remember, on day 3 post op after my butt liposuction, my husband and I went on a little day trip with my mother to a place called the Orchideen Hoeve. While it’s not the most amazing place on earth, for the price (a whopping €12), there’s actually quite a bit to do. Orchids and other exotic plants, turtles, sugar gliders, monkeys, birds, and butterflies oh my! Because we thought it was kind of cool, my hubby and I picked up annual tickets (a whopping €31) so we could go to special events like their 
Christmas Market.
One of the things that they did during the 2016/2017 holiday season was turn off the lights and brighten everything up by candle light, which really made everything magical. The only downside is they did put the monkeys away. I guess they didn’t want them ambushing visitors in the dark (they also had the doors open to the monkey area on the special candle light trail they made and I suppose employees didn’t want to have to explain who let the monkeys out…ok, that was lame).
The giant carp were in bed, most of the turtles were chilling by the warming lights out of sight, and the butterflies had found safe places invisible to the naked eye to sleep. But the lights really did make this place magical. Overall, we probably only wandered around a kilometer or two, but it was a lovely night regardless.
Cologne Christmas Market and the Quest for THE Ugly Christmas Tree Ornament (December 2016)
You can say my husband and I are a little weird. Alright, a lot weird. He’s a system admin (IT), gamer, and whiskey fanatic and I work in the porn industry, am a gamer, cosplayer, and have a weird habit of collecting people. Together we end up doing some really strange things and our Christmas tree may be the result of our being weird.
At some point we thought it would be cool to buy a white Christmas tree. Of course, that year a Costco like store we had access to was selling neon colored ornaments that
would just fit perfect into a white Christmas tree. Add some god awful pastel lights, the first ugly owl ornament from a German Christmas Market somewhere in the middle of the country and the ugly tree tradition was born. We live for going to German Christmas Markets to try to find THE ugly ornament of the year. Naturally, we had to hit the Cologne market as that is one of the best in Germany.
We decided to go midweek to try to beat the weekend crowd and bus loads of tourists that come in for it. I mean, we had 4 different markets in the center of Cologne to eat our way through. I’m
not kidding. We ate our way through it. Meat sticks, cheeses, strudel, sausage, more meat sticks, hot chocolate with rum (I didn’t know this was a thing, it was probably a good thing I didn’t know it was a thing before this moment), glutwijn, whiskey, brandy, potato pancakes, candy of all sorts, pastries, and other really yummy things that I’m patiently waiting to get into my tummy in 1.5 months. And no, I didn’t stay keto this time but to be honest I totally could have with all the meat, saus
age and sauerkraut.
If I remember, over 2 days we probably walked a good 10km through the 4 different markets and downtown Cologne in general. We thought about climbing the tower at some point, but decided to go get more alcohol in our bellies instead. Seriously, you would think all we do is eat (well, ok, that’s really all we did this trip).
I did, however, find the 2016 ugly ass Christmas addition to our tree. Meet weird ass giraffe followed by the 5 euro ugly ass owl runner up.
Oh, and down below, the other owl is the original ugly ass owl. When we found it back in 2014, my friend held it up and said, “This is what German mothers must hang over their baby’s cribs to scare them into staying in their bed at night.” After that comment, I had to buy it.
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