We got out and about last Sunday morning, excited to be going to Sunflower Garden Center to find some further inspiration for our garden and courtyard. The weather was beautiful and on our way there, we made a pit stop at the nearest fast food place - McDonald's. You...
Archives? Who needs those?
When something notable happens here in Germany, I try to make few comments on it. This time around, I'm not really sure what to think. A building in Cologne containing the city's historical archives collapsed yesterday. It contained 65,000 original documents dating...
No meal planners in Germany?
It was that time of the month again. Lots of meat frozen in the trunk freezer but nothing in the fridge to put a meal together with. It's still going to be a little while until we can eat anything from our own garden so I had to make a trip to Lidl. It's a discount...
German fast food
The man who invented the döner kebab died this week. Sad news indeed. But as an almost tribute to him, we found out our little village is finally going to have a döner stand of its own. We went out today to grab a cable for our new phone system (which we still haven't...
Getting things corrected
I had to be up bright and early this morning so Mack and I could go to the US embassy. After we got the passport and birth certificate in the mail with the wrong birth date (my mistake, not theirs), I had to figure out what we needed to do to correct it. One can...
Looks a bit American…
So my MIL & FIL were standing outside our house the other day and an older lady was walking by. She stopped to chat and mentioned that the decorations on the house looked really nice, "although they are a bit American. Not that that is a bad thing." We got a good...
Not exactly the Ritz
I haven't mentioned much about what things were like those four days while I was in the hospital; but mistake my lack of words up until this point as a sign that things weren't. It was rather the opposite. Because I'm an expat and I am still not 100% fluent in...
That just won’t do
Mackenzie's US passport and birth certificate arrived today. Only one week for processing...talk about shocking! Unfortunately, they have the wrong date of birth on them...so we have to reboot and start again. I think it may actually have been my mistake because I...
Care packages of tastiness
Stefan had the pleasure of visiting the customs office today. Somehow he managed to get the customs agent to have mercy on him and he let him leave without paying anything. Stefan was doing his best to play dumb - it apparently worked. One of the magical packages that...
One newspaper we’ll never read again
Wow. Now that was interesting. I'm sitting here on the couch. It's 7:45 pm and the phone rings. A woman from the Hanauer Anzeiger, a local newspaper in a neighboring city, is on the phone and wants to know how we enjoyed our free two-week subscription to the newspaper...
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