Guten Apetit!

This morning I woke to the sound of Reuben cock-a-doodle-doing in the next room to wake up Seth. It made me smile. I have so enjoyed being here with my sister’s family. It seems like it has been forever since I have spent time with them and I feel like I’m getting to know them all over again.

Nicki and I took a USO German baking class today. We had a great time. We learned to make Buttermilcheschnitte (Buttermilk cake), Fantaschnitten mit Pfirsichschamand (Fanta cake with Peach Cream), and Glasierte Nuss Schleifen (Glazed Nut Bows). The Fanta Cake tasted a lot like my sister, Joni’s, Easter Cake. The buttermilk cake was delicious too but the crowning glory, the ultimate, the creation I would never share was… the Nut Bows!!

Just take a look at these pics.Are you drooling yet? Now, we’ll see if I can actually recreate them. It was pretty complicated and time consuming. But we had fun anyway as you can see.

We enjoyed it so much we signed up for another class on my birthday, the day before I leave Germany, and I signed up for one next week while Nicki is away in Venice. Guten Apetit!

Splitting Hairs

The thing about a lengthy stay is that eventually you need a haircut. I was so busy at Christmas time I didn’t get a haircut before I left. I thought I would muddle through and just get one when I got back but it started driving me crazy and I still have about three weeks to go. I knew I’d never make it. So I had Nicki make an appointment with the lady who does her hair. It was a little unnerving since I have had the same lady cut my hair since I moved to So. Indiana in 1992. Yesterday, while the rest went to Reuben’s basketball game, Mary and I made an afternoon of it and she got her hair done too before going off to her Honors Drama Ensemble camp today. We took the dogs with us since this same lady loves dogs and will be dog sitting for Belle and Abby next week when we all go to Berlin. Then in the evening we all went out to dinner for some schnitzel. Here’s a few pics of our new do-s.