Saturday, March 31, 2012

Berlin's Bears

Back in January, Keith went to the Berlin city museum with his German class. The museum has two bears that live there since the bear is the symbol of Berlin.

This is the museum itself:

Thursday, March 29, 2012

Icy Spree

Ice on the Spree in January.

Keith took these pictures in late January. The chunks of ice moved very very slowly with the flow of the Spree.

Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Grüne Woche Pictures

Here are some pictures Keith took at Grüne Woche.
Entrance:

Moscow breads:

Beer wall:

Sunday, March 25, 2012

Engagement Pictures

While we were in the Philadelphia area over Christmas, we were able to meet with our wedding photographer to get some engagement pictures in Center City. Here are some of them:



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Friday, March 23, 2012

Lisa's Graduation

While home for Christmas, we went to my sister's graduation from the University of Missouri. She gave a speech at the graduation ceremony.

Family picture:

Lisa at the podium:

Wednesday, March 21, 2012

KaDeWe

KaDeWe is Kaufhaus des Westens, the second largest department store in Europe, with Harrod's being the largest. It is enormous and very impressive. We've been there a couple of times, including during the Christmas season.

Here's what the ground floor looked like:

There was a man walking around dressed as an old-school Santa.

On one of the higher floors of KaDeWe, a harpist was dressed as an angel and was playing Christmas carols:

The second floor from the top has almost every food imaginable. It has sections for different regions of the world and different counters where different cuisines can be eaten. The top floor is another eatery with a soaring glass ceiling. We treated ourselves with delicious desserts after our long day of Christmas shopping:

Monday, March 19, 2012

Happy Birthday to me!

I celebrated my birthday with a week of festivities. The weekend before I got my birthday presents from Keith (beautiful earrings and a puzzle). The day of, he made me a delicious bacon, blue cheese and egg sandwich for breakfast (seen below) and this lasagna for dinner: http://smittenkitchen.com/2012/02/lasagna-bolognese/

At work, I had a really nice party with cake and sparkling wine! My co-workers gave me flowers, a gift certificate, a book and tickets to a museum, which was all very unexpected. The weekend afterwards we had people over for a really great party. Everyone joined together to give me flowers and a gift certificate to a restaurant where you eat in complete darkness.

Sunday, March 18, 2012

Snow!

Even though the weather has been beautiful this weekend (in the 60s and sunny), a month ago I was just as excited about snow:

Thursday, March 15, 2012

Attempting to take a Christmas picture

We thought it would be really cute to get a picture of Josie and Loki wearing antlers and a Santa hat, respectively. Our attempts at obtaining such a picture were unsuccessful.

First, Josie ate the top off of Loki's Santa hat. Then, she wouldn't sit still on the couch:

Next, Lokie refused to wear his hat-turned-collar:

So we tried getting just a picture of Loki:

Notice how he's pushing away from Keith, attempting to break free. Notice here the stare of death:

This was our best shot:

Being adorable is hard work:

The situation degraded quickly:

Sunday, March 11, 2012

Abe Frommann

Looks like the sausage king of Chicago has expanded his empire to Berlin:

Friday, March 9, 2012

Doctor's Orders


Saw this sign at Grüne Woche, the Berlin equivalent of a state fair, held in the convention center. Translated, it says, "Beer is good...says the doctor!"

The darker sign below that with the farmer says, "Whoever drinks beer helps agriculture."

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

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Saw this guy crawling around in Potsdam while waiting for the train. Kind of weird, but it turned out that he was training for parkour or something like that. Later, he jumped back and forth over the bike posts.

Monday, March 5, 2012

Look what we found underneath our walls


We bought a new coat rack on Saturday, so we took down the old coat rack. It was glued to the wallpaper in addition to being screwed into the wall, so when we removed the rack from the wall, it ripped off the top layer of wallpaper, exposing this beautiful pattern.