Konzert in Ladenburg, Uno Extreme, and A Whole Lot of Pink

Sabine, Connie (Sabine's mother), Lukas, Sophia, and I went to an absolutely beautiful "smaller" town, for a concert, called Ladenburg. The city was full of old buildings, I don't think that we actually even saw a newer building at all. Very lovely and just waiting to have pictures taken of it!

This is the church that the concert was in.

That's Sabine and Connie.

As I stated, a few times, above, we were there for a concert; what a concert it was too!!! It featured the Corelli-Ensemble from Ladenburg/Mannheim and had a guest soloist Caroline Adomeit on the violin.
Here is the program:
Concerto grosso op. 6 No. 10 D-minor                                                         G. F. Handel
Konzert for Violin and Orchestra in D-Major                                               W. A. Mozart
                                                                       Pause
Konzert for Violin and Chamber Orchestra in D-minor                                F. Mendelssohn Bartholdy
"The Lark Ascending" for Violin and Chamber Orchestra                           Ralph Vaughan Williams
"La Ronde des Lutins" for Violin and Chamber Orchestra                          Antonio Bazzini

Okay, I love Uno just as much as the next person and truly it is one of the best games on the face of the Earth (other than Settlers of Catan), but when you start adding technology to it.... Let me just tell you the story. So, Sabine, Lukas, Sophia, and me were talking about playing, of course I got excited, then they got the game out and they have this little robot thing that you put the cards in as you go. Now, I should probably state that before we start, everyone must record their name into the robot that way when it yells at you to do something you know who it is talking to. WELL, of course this game is in German, which slowly but surely is becoming better for me, and therefore, I had no idea what it was screaming. That is until I see everyone running up the stairs and back down again, I now know what it was saying. After about four rounds including one where I had nothing other than red cards (picture below), we decided to call it quits because everyone beginning to sweat a bit.

I never thought that I would ever touch a Barbie ever again in my lifetime because by the time I have kids Barbies will more than likely be extinct. Anywho! Sophia and I played with her Barbies for a good hour and half one day after she had come home from school and finished her homework. She has some pretty cool Barbie cars, not going to lie! I never thought that I would see a smaller car than that of the Fiat 500, that was until I saw Sophia's Barbie Fiat 500, which was pink. Sabine and Sophia both love pink. It's always fun to go shopping with them. I'm not the biggest fan of pink, but then again it is starting to grow on me. Only a few more years and i'll own something of the colour. Until then, I'll teach Barbies to drive safely.

"Click it or Ticket"

I'm pretty good at parrelle parking, no biggy.

Later!!!! Bis dann!

"I'm Never Eating Again"

As some of you might know there is a holiday similar to Thanksgiving in Germany, but it isn't anything like a real whole family meeting for Thanksgiving and having all the food you could possibly ever want! Which is made with love and years of experience. Well, Germany had a Thanksgiving this year, or at least one family. I was in the kitchen for the entire day cooking and it was so much fun. I did, however, state at one point about always having plenty of time and then saving the "little things" for the end and then everything blows up and the people start coming, you're not finished and then they ask if they can help and you end up with a run-on sentence and an unfinished meal! BUT everything got done and it all tasted amazing. The menu for the evening was as follows:

• One Brown Sugar and Honey Glazed Ham
• Mama's Mashed Potatoes
• Ruby's Sweet Corn (My great grandmothers recipe.)
• Very Easy Mac n' Cheesy 
• Bread rolls
• Pumpkin Pie (My first time doing everything from scratch, not my best pie, but it was good.)
• Shirley Ann's 'Nanner Puddin' (For those non-country folk it translates to Banana Pudding.)

There was also homemade apple cider for the kids and a nice apple cider sangria for the adults!

The following day was the day that we all said goodbye to Stefan. I know what you're thinking, my cooking wasn't THAT bad! Stefan is currently in Australia doing another production of Wagner's Ring Cycle as, you guessed it, Siegfried! In Melbourne to be exact. It was sad and we all miss him, but he said he was liking it okay aside from a few odd directors directions.

Bis Spätter!