Heading Overseas

Our Thanksgiving trip this year was to Berlin. They’re currently having a photography exhibit at galleries all over the city, and George had a few he wanted to get to. We decided to drive instead of flying (George drove the whole way up). In retrospect, not a wise choice. There was quite a bit of [.

George took a picture of my birthday present after we hung it up today so we could share it. It is by Chérifa Bounab-Wexler and is multi-media, with ink, paint, paper, etc. all combined beautifully into this gorgeous image. We bought it at Carré d’Artistes in Strasbourg, France. Image copyright 2010

Cannstatter Volksfest, Mark II Okay, so since the last post, about TWO MONTHS ago, we’ve done some travelling. We enjoyed our first trip to the Cannstatter Volksfest with the Tannenbaum Ski Club so much that we went back down the following weekend with another Tannenbaumer, Ken. The three of us didn

Last Thursday, George and I attended an appreciation luncheon  for the US Army Garrison Kaiserslautern Fiscal Year 2010 Volunteers of the Quarter. I had initially thought it was just a USO thing, but it turns out it’s across all volunteer organizations within the Kaiserslautern Military Community (K

Like last year, we went to the Volksfest in Stuttgart with the Tannenbaum Ski Club (25-26 Sept). This year I was also the Assistant Trip Captain, which means I helped sign people up for the trip, collect their money, organize the room list, and communicate changes to the tour company. I also helped

We didn’t travel this weekend, just stayed around town. Today we went downtown to try to get some more good pics of the Kaiserbrünnen, the fountain in the altstadt, but it wasn’t running today. So we went into Cafe 15 instead and had a snack; I had hot chocolate (the best we’ve had in Europe) [...]

Saturday Since we had a three-day weekend for Labor Day, we spent the weekend with a few friends in Dublin. I got up at 4:45 so I could shower and be done in the bathroom before getting George up so we could both be ready by 6:45, when Jenn and John showed up to carpool [...]

Saturday we went down to Zweibrücken for the Autumn Festival and Horse Days. Zweibrücken has its own breed, named after the city itself. I’d had no idea of that fact until we saw the festival listed in the schedule in the USO magazine. There wasn’t much going on when we were down there, but we got [

We went to the town of Saarburg, Germany, about a week ago, on the recommendation of someone from the USO. It’s on the Saar river, and in fact, a branch of the river runs right through the middle of town, creating a rather impressive waterfall. There’s lots of cafes and restaurants around the waterf