Pedicures

 I don't treat myself very often to a pedicure but I probably should more often as my feet get extremely dry and cracked in both the summer and winter extreme temperatures.  I decided that while Marty was in Seattle my feet could use a bit of pampering.  This is only the third time I've had a pedicure in Germany- normally I get one while we are home in Seattle for the summer.  In Seattle I LOVE getting a pedicure. It is so relaxing.  They have massage chairs and they massage your feet and legs and paint your toes and soak your feet.  Heavenly.  I always want it to go on forever and am sad at the end of the 30- maybe 45 minutes if I'm lucky.
Here it really couldn't be any different.  They start with the same type things.  Pick out your color and soak your feet but then, every single time, they have either cut my feet trying to get the cuticles cut back or this time they had the buffer and kept knicking my ankle skin.  Then when she finally put on the paint she kept digging her finger nail into my cuticle to get the extra paint

off.  I can really withstand a great deal of pain but every time it is quite painful, anything but relaxing and as much as I want the pedicure to go on and on in Seattle I can't wait for it to be over here.  And by the end I've endured nearly 2 hours of sitting in a chair being tortured. But my toes look lovely and they are always so proud off all of the skin they have sloughed off my very dry heels.