Keeping Up With The Kartoffelchen: January 2011

Friday, January 28, 2011

Marburg with the Loves

On Brian and Catherine's last day in Germany we decided to take a day trip to Marburg, a beautiful town about 50 km northeast of Wetzlar. Even though it was a Sunday, which means all the shops were closed, we had a great time sightseeing, hiking to the castle, and enjoying a freshly brewed beer at Elisabeth Braukeller! It was a gorgeous day and the perfect way to say farewell to our friends! We miss you, Loves! Thanks so much for coming to visit!!!

Catherine and Brian on the train to Marburg

in front of Elisabethkirche

die Elisabethkirche - Wie schön!

Squinting from the sun in January in Germany?! Love it!

Pretty Fachwerkhaus

Next year's Christmas Card!

Bosch Beer?! It's gotta be good!

Serge needs to do his next assignment at the brewery! :-)

Mittagspause bei Elisabeth Brauerei

The beer was great!

Toasting our last beer together!

Pretty view of the church across the street

How blue is that sky?!

Slow down, Tater! :-) I guess I drink a little faster than Catherine...

Outside the brewery after a yummy lunch

Another pretty church on our way to the castle

The cutest little photographer I've ever seen!

Slowpokes!

And the first Infiniti we've seen in Deutschland.

I'm getting this sign for our apartment.

I'm from South Carolina, honey. I'm not good with a snow shovel! :-)

Making our way up to the castle!

Pretty view of Marburg

Stealing a smooch!

Wilkommen im Marburger Schloss!

Another pretty view of Marburg

Doing some exploring

Nice purse, Sergio! At least it was full of glasses from the brewery - that's manly enough to make up for the flowery bag :-)

Well hello there!

Chicas in the castle

What ya see, Sergie?

Marburger Schloss

Serge Reinert likes this.

I think I'll ride my horse back home. Meet y'all there!

Catherine's coming riding too!

Auf Wiedersehen Brian and Catherine!

Auf Wiedersehen Marburg!

Sunday, January 23, 2011

Silvester Extravaganza!

After the 4 of us spent some time in Frankfurt, we made our way back to Wetzlar to show our guests around our new home base and to ring in 2011! In Germany New Year's Eve is called Silvester. We spent our first Silvester at an awesome French restaurant in the Domplatz named Hauptwache. We had an 8-course dinner, which actually ended up being 10 courses because they kept sending out dessert platters after midnight. The owner of the restaurant is a super nice guy, the service was great, and the food was amazing! But I've never been so FULL in my life!! At midnight the church bells went crazy, and the streets were loaded with people shooting off fireworks and celebrating the new year. It was such a neat experience! Germany really knows how to enjoy New Year's Eve! The Deutsch can "make a party" now! :-)

This was the back of our train ticket from Frankfurt. Haha!

"Qualmen" means to smoke.

My little rock star, helping clean up before Brian and Catherine arrived :-)

They got here on the last day of the little Christmas Market by the train station.

Of course we had to go by so they could try a mug of Glühwein!

We were so happy to have these guys in Wetzlar!

Enjoying a Bananenweizen at Palais, another Turkish restaurant

I love this picture even though it looks kinda weird because Palais was rocking the red lights in preparation for Silvester. That boy knows how to make me laugh, that's for sure!

I also like this picture because I'm just hamming it up for the camera, while Serge is... probably checking on our stocks, looking up directions or the train schedule, making a reservation - something responsible! He takes such good care of me! :-)