A beautiful Bavarian wedding

    Sep 28, 2009 | Entertaining, Europe, Expat Life, Germany, Travel

    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...

    Oktoberfest!!!

    Sep 18, 2009 | Entertaining, Europe, Germany, Travel

    At some point in your life, I’m sure you’ve heard about a little party held in Munich every year called Oktoberfest. But did you know that it’s actually held the last two weeks of September, leading into October? Tomorrow at noon the first keg will...

    A bit of Bayern

    Jan 15, 2009 | Europe, Germany, Photography, Travel

    As I’ve mentioned, we were down in Bavaria this past weekend visiting Stefan’s parents. This is their house, rather typical for the area. I just love these houses with all the wood trim – they just look so classic. Naturally, we couldn’t let...

    It wasn’t jumping when it got to me

    Jan 13, 2009 | Europe, Germany, Travel

    While we were in Bavaria this weekend, we went to a nice little restaurant called Schlossgasthof zur Einkehr [(Haggn 26, 94362 Neukirchen, Tel: (09961) 701170)]. It’s a place the in-laws have been to several times and they always enjoyed it so we went to check...

    A change of scenery

    Jan 8, 2009 | Europe, Germany

    We’re off to Stefan’s parents tomorrow. My mom hasn’t been down to Bavaria while she’s visited so she’ll get to see something different…and some more of the family living in the area will get to meet Mack for the first time. There...