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...
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 be tapped by the...
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...
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 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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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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