The Oktoberfest is a big deal for most people in Germany, especially those living in Bavaria. We unfortunately don't live in Bavaria but it's still a big deal to us. The first year I had the privilege of attending was in 2000 when Stefan and I flew over from Miami for...
A beautiful Bavarian wedding
On August 7th and 8th in the year 2009, our little family had the great honor of celebrating a long awaited wedding between our friends Steffen & Steffi. As a matter of fact, they got engaged in 2005 at the very same tent where we all threw back a couple maß of...
The Lanternfest 2009 – Parade photos
It's been over a month since the greatest little party on earth, aka Lanternfest, and I figured it's about time I get these photos online. Also, we're going to be attending another one of the biggest great parties on earth, Oktoberfest, this weekend so I figured it...
A bit of harvesting & foraging going on here
Despite a few setbacks in our garden (like the loss of 80% of our tomato plants), we've still had a fairly decent harvest. You can see our full list of harvest figures on our In the Garden page but here's what we've collected from our garden in the last month. I've...
The Lanternfest 2009 – Saturday was full of food, friends & FUN
The Lantern Festival in Buedesheim is an event we look forward to every year - as do our friends. Most of the 5 friends visiting us on Saturday have been at the fest for the last 3 years with us. Once they'd seen it for the first time, they were as hooked as we were....
Wicked ride, brah.
I heard a strange noise outside last week, and when I looked out the window, I saw these guys... They were adding some stripes to a street beside us. We can't recall there ever being stripes there before but apparently they are now important. The contraption they were...
The 2009 Frankfurt Dragon Boat Festival
Yesterday we took a little trip to Frankfurt for the Dragon Boat Festival. It's something they've been doing on the Main River since 1991 but we've never been there ourselves. Although it's not one of the biggest events they hold down along the edge of the water,...
Bless you little one
On May 1st, Mackenzie Skye Anne was christened. We had the ceremony in Bavaria in the same church where Stefan and I had our church wedding ceremony almost 7 years ago. This beautiful church is in a small town called Metten which is very close to where Stefan's...
Trees, tripods and other random stuff
I've been in a cleaning frenzy today. We're trying out a new system here where I use Monday as my "get the house back in order after the bomb went off weekend is over." We're usually so busy focusing on getting big projects done that the house is in disarray and there...
Obama Fingers – now that’s some GOOD chicken
Caught up in the wave of Obama-mania here, a German frozen food company called Sprehe has launched a product called Obama Fingers in an attempt to cash in on some of the hype. Obama Fingers are fried chicken fingers with curry dipping sauce which were released for a...
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