A Day with Haley

In October I met up with my friend Haley who is an old co-worker from my Minnesota Sbux days. We wandered the city of Frankfurt.

I do enjoy statue pretzels.

An Elephant for Alisha



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Then we went to the Frankfurt history museum.

Children's toys ca 1940.

Have yourself a very Nazi Christmas....lalalaaalala

My little makeshift Christmas

Note the festive shapes:

I knitted the rope!

Mick always looks at me a little askance when I talk about Christmas decorating (he's a little afraid). But since all my decorations are in the States, I just bought a poinsettia and figured that was that. Then last week I came home to a little surprise! It's a little crooked making it the perfect tree.

This and That.

Here are the last few pictures from my parents visit.

In Reutlingen

My parent's exchange "grand kid"....she's one cool kid :)

At a Medieval Market.

Treating our friends to dinner who were present at the wedding.

Metz Cathedral Interiors

Marc Chagall windows.

Metz Cathedral

Same view later in day.

Metz: Around the City

So we took mom and dad and the new English/Olaf teacher Laura and her friend Cindy for their first visit to France. But there was a slight snag. About an hour before the border we were in a mysterious traffic jam. A neighboring truck driver told us that they had found a bomb. In my American brain that means "a mysterious package" or some other such thing was found, but apparently it is quite common for them to find old bombs from the World Wars (especially during construction projects). So about 20 minutes went by and were were on our merry way.



I can't tell you much about Metz, but there is a nice Cathedral (pictures coming soon).