Keeping Up With The Kartoffelchen: Summer Update

Well, I guess another month has flown by without a blog update. Woops! Serge and I spent some time in Heidelberg a few weeks ago and then traveled to the US for the annual Qualman Myrtle Beach Week. It was Serge's first time back in the US in over 9 months, and it was well worth the wait! We both had such a great time visiting with our friends and family, laying in the sun, playing golf (Serge) and shopping (me), and we already miss our friends and family so much! (Not to mention American food, southern hospitality, and the sun! ;-)) We're getting back into the swing of things here in Germany and are preparing for a few more trips we have planned in the upcoming weeks and months. We can never stay in one place for too long! :-) I recently came across a few random pictures from our spring and summer over here, and I wanted to share them with you. We hope you are all enjoying the summer and that your weather has been much better than ours!

This was in Gießen on my birthday. Thanks for the well wishes, Karstadt! :-)

My birthday chef!

He cooked Chicken Cordon Bleu with almond flour, artichokes, and a salad, and it was awesome!

Then he surprised me with breakfast on our balcony, which was FINALLY finished, just in time for my birthday!

We moved the party inside for the second course.

I gave the chef a break, and we went to Wirt am Dom for my birthday dinner.

Old meets new in Frankfurt

Cooking some chicken and veggies on a hot stone at Eschenheimer Turm

At the Spanish festival in Frankfurt - I passed on the Sangria and instead enjoyed a Magnum McFlurry with a pirate. Olé! :-)

Biergarten an der Lahn

FINALLY Biergarten weather! Yay!!

Happy 4th of July!

Celebrating in our red, white, and blue with a strawberry yogurt sundae!

Serge's photography work - That's our house through a glass of Riesling :-)

Hiking through a wheat field

Nice view of Wetzlar

We made it to the top!

I was cooking dinner one day (hence my cute apron), when Serge hollered for me to come look out the window because there was a pig flying outside. It's hard to see in the picture, but sure enough pigs can fly in Wetzlar. Obviously I can never again say, "Sure I'll move to country 'x' with you, Serge... when pigs fly." ;-)