Well, it’s hard to believe it but we have had our farmhouse now for nearly a year. We wrote on August 17th, 2006, that we were going to closing…and although everything wasn’t final until a few months later, we started cleaning out the house that same weekend. There were moments of excitement and joy…and moments […]

Because of our housewarming party, we didn’t get to attend the festival on Saturday night. Some of our guests did go down to see the parade pass through though, which actually lasted about 2 hours and featured 25 organizations and 7 marching bands. The all came back totally excited about what they’d seen so we […]

Not much happens during the day on Saturday but since we were preparing for our own big party, we didn’t really notice. We ordered bread to serve at the party from our local bakery and picked it up on Saturday morning and you could see a bit of the party rush there, already. Most of […]

The 56th Annual Büdesheimer Laternenfest (lantern festival) officially ended yesterday. I have to say that we are both a bit sad because it was a whole lot of fun – and we were amazed at the amount of effort this little town put into the event…not to mention the fact that so many locals seem […]

Make no mistake – throwing a party at your home is a massive undertaking! The more people you have, the more chaos may ensue. But if you have some friends and family you can trust who are glutton enough to volunteer to help you during the event – accept the offer and thank them profusely! […]