As I have said before, this was my first time to attempt skiing. How did it go? Hmm, let me dig up a phrase from my last post: nicht sehr gut. I don’t know what I expected, but skiing was not like I thought it would be. It was much…
We got back from our trip to the Alps (Garmisch) Monday night, and I was overjoyed to get to sleep in our bed. The views may be incredible in Garmisch, but the beds and pillows at the hotel are nicht sehr gut (not so good). We got to Garmisch fairly…
So, you know how sometimes you will be singing along with a song on the radio and then realize that the words you are singing are completely ridiculous? You know… you think you know the words but they just don’t make any sense in the context of the song? For…
(AKA my first ski trip) Yup, we’re leaving in (hopefully) 4-4.5 hours for the Alps for a weekend of skiing. Thankfully, I feel much better today. Now, I think I just have a bit of a cold, and I can deal with that. I could not, however, ski with the…
As I’ve mentioned before, we visited Texas from December 14-29th. We will never fly Northwest again. Not only were the flights horrendous and the layovers excessively long, but they lost one of our suitcases for 14 days. It was returned to us the day before we flew back to Germany.…
As I mentioned in my last post, we were surprised to see the Neckar River, which runs through Heidelberg, had large frozen sections in it. Since today it got above freezing for the first time in at least 9 days, and probably since at least the 29th of December (when…