I’ve been fed more cake in the three weeks I’ve lived in Germany than in my past three years living in the US. Seriously, you eat cake just because it tastes good. No special occasion necessary. I hate frosting, so I hate most cakes. But nobody uses that frosting shit here. It’s like solid chocolate, [...]

Another day with Thilo. First stop of the day, after a wonderful meal with his family, was to take care of some yearbook business. Afterwards, it was into the city. He forced me to eat raw meat, we got ice cream, went shopping for new sunglasses for him, had some beers at the English-speaking gathering [...]

Today I spent the day with Thilo and it was amazing. He showed me the city of Hannover and we found adventure in everything we did. Including the experience of me and red wine. Anybody close to me knows how I act on wine. And not only was this the first time we have ever [...]

Today was an absolutely gorgeous day outside. The kids and I played outside for hours. We played on the swings, played in the sand box, played hopscotch, tic tac toe and covered the patio in chalk. We laughed and sang and danced. Laura and I spent some time alone playing games later in the day [...]