Before and after: Guest bathroom
I’m going to try to go in some sort of order here but we’ll see how that goes. Actually, one of the first things we did was start throwing things away – but it’s hard to see the progress there…although we did trash about 3500 cubic feet (100 cubic meters) of random things from around […]
One year later…
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 […]
Our lantern festival – Sunday night
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 […]
Our lantern festival – Saturday
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 […]
Our lantern festival – Friday night
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 […]
