I made juice early in the morning for Oma, Zane and myself. Oma came down just as I was leaving to Armin's to help him make beer, Zane was lost somewhere in the depths of his mind, curled into a ball, half exposed and half buried beneath the blankets. I left the juice on his night stand and took the car to Armin's without waking him.Armin was having breakfast when I arrived, he was happy to see me, "Lisa and Manuel are still asleep." He said with a laugh. "Yeah? Is that normal for them?" "Ohh yes! Happens most of the time." I had a mango and some water then helped him carry some pots and equipment into the garage. A short time later Lisa and Manuel came down for breakfast as well. They were quite surprised to see me. "Aren't you tired after last night?" "Not really.. But I was lucky" I said, with a rather humorous tone, then I joined Armin again in one of his many man caves, spread throughout the kit house he built himself. I've brewed beer a few times myself but Armins methods are far in advance of those I've used. It was a pleasure to see him work, and actually get to know him much better. We drank beer that he had previously made and talked about all kinds of things he's into. The five hours I spent making beer with my Uncle Armin is the most time I've ever spent with him alone, before that it was probably only 20 minutes! Crazy!!Before the batch was ready to poor I had to leave to buy Veggies from Edeka and return home to make more juice and get Zane for a meeting with Luisa Green a good friend of mine that I was introduced to through my mom. Luisa has had dyed green hair for over 10 years, is a huge Doors fan and is very skilled with baking. Her dream is to open a bakery in Amsterdam and live there. I can't wait to go their when she opens it up. Louisa's mom and my mom have been best friends since they were in Kindergarden here in Beitighiem, they both ended up in design. She's a clothing designer and my moms a website designer. Zane and I walked over to Luisa's place and chilled out, listened to the Doors, talked about travel and ordered up some Pizza from the local delivery place. Louisa had just gotten back from Amsterdam with her friend, who has had blue dyed hair for some time as well, they were both tired from their journey so we took our exit que and walked home. The next day we had a very early 2pm dinner at Armin's with Dani's father Ludwig, whose nearly blind, mostly deaf, and loves to talk about the past in terms of how it should have been the future. "Back in those days we knew what needed to be done, not like now, then we knew, now we've forgotten. We should be like we were then." The past really does have a long hand into the future. Living in the present, free from the clutches of the whats come before, or whats to come. It's a freedom few enjoy, fewer still for very long, but some have mastered it, we call these people enlightened, and rightfully so!After dropping Ludwig off at home, where he lives alone despite being blind and deaf, Zane and I watched Strange Days, a very interesting science fiction film with Ralph Finnes, written by James Cameron, that has aged without loss of credibility or interest from the passage of time and advancement of technology, as most dated sci-fi films seem to do. Tomorrow we leave Beitighiem and head for Austria, were Zane's girlfriend Zuzka will pick us up and take us back to her home of Bratislava, Slovakia.