And here I am again back in the US from my 2 weeks of vacation in Germany and reminiscing about all the great German food I ate and the 7 pounds I gained in 2 weeks – yes you read that correct – 7 pounds….and it was all worth it :-). Here is the list…
Wow what a fun and busy last month it has been. I am so happy to report that I could cross off another item on my bucket list – Niagara Falls. What an amazing experience it was to visit Niagara Falls 1,5 hours outside of Toronto. Everybody always told me that the Falls would look…
4 more weeks until El Salvador – I am so ready for vacation. I haven’t had real vacation in over 2 years and the “rainy season” has started again in the Pacific Northwest. I think it has been raining now for 14 days straight – at least that’s how it feels. A hot spicy soup then is…
After a day of hard fence building work in the yard (my vegetable garden will be expanded to twice its current size – yeah!) – Mike would do the hard work and I just hand the tools and dig out the dirt out of the post holes – some hearty Pork Carnitas that pretty much…
The Bathroom is finally done – yeah! What a nice feeling to walk into a warm bathroom with heated floors! And I think Mike and I did a pretty good job in “designing” it a little bit more modern. I even got my own “sit down make up place”. See for yourself! Now that the bathroom…
I was asked last week what type of food gets traditionally eaten at Oktoberfest in Germany. Of course I am way late again with my post, because Oktoberfest is held in September and usually ends the first Sunday in October, but in the US I’ve learned over the years Oktoberfest gets celebrated the entire Oktober. Traditional Oktoberfest food…
Is it spring yet? Geez I can’t take these gloomy doomy rainy Seattle days any longer – 9 months of winter is just TOO much! But since I am trying not to be such a complainer I have found a way to crack myself up every morning by feeding my dogs their vitamins (yep my dogs…
Its game time! Seattle is in Superbowl fever, there is not ONE person in Seattle, Redmond, Bellevue and surrounding areas who isn’t possessed by the Superbowl madness. You really can’t go anywhere and not noticing the 12th man flag, people wearing Seahawks Jerseys, blue Friday promotions in the stores and the hundreds of Facebook photos showing something…
A German in Seattle 