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This year our annual, much-anticipated, much-loved Fasching festivities took a decidely different turn. Normally we go to our favorite parade, in our favorite local "city", Weil der Stadt. This year Dave drove up & down to Frankfurt while Dane & [...]
Today is Ash Wednesday, this year, like the last two years, instead of giving something up I am committed to a good deed a day. Instead of Lent being about me, I want it to be about others. For me, [...]
Sunday, for the second year running, we went to the big Fasching (Mardi Gras, Carnaval) parade. This year we went to the gorgeous, I'm-in-love, Weil Der Stadt. It was spectacular. Amazing. Freezing. And two hours long. I think I'm still [...]
We just returned from the kids Fasching celebration in the next town down the road. Fasching is Germany's carnival season. It starts on the 11th day of November at exactly 11minutes after 11am and ends at the stroke of midnight [...]
It's ‘die fünfte Jahreszeit’ (the 5th season) in Germany! Well. Technically. It's over. It all started on the 11th of the 11th month 11:11 am on St Martin’s day, 2017. Since then our local witches, demons, and ghosts have been [...]
I am bursting with happiness. I've got words spilling out of my fingers faster than they can type. My oldest, my golden child, my beautiful first born, Soren is here! He arrived safe & sound & full of energy to [...]
Yesterday I got a look behind the scenes of our local Narrenzunft (Fools Guild). Every Fasching, or Carnival, I've been awed by the amazing costumes and masks, and highly entertained by the insane craziness of the parades (Fasching 2013;Fasching = [...]
