Grilling Snow

In Oklahoma during State Fair time you can get almost any type of food fried. They serve fried Oreos, fried corn, fried potatoes, fried ice cream, even fried guacamole...

but here in Germany...

wait for it.......

We grill snow!!

Hope your winter is white and wonderful!

Stuttgart Christmas Market

Stuttgart Christmas Market video...I found this and while it is from last year it is a great video of an evening at the Stuttgart Christmas Market.. Thank you to Romain Rochat for capturing the festivities of the Market!!

He set my feet on solid ground

He lifted me out of the pit of despair, out of the mud and the mire. He set my feet on solid ground and steadied me as I walked along. ~ Psalm 40:2, NLT

Sure have experienced this several time this past year. Thank you Lord for always being there~

My new favorite mint

I have grown very fond of these mints!! They are a perfect blend of dark chocolate and peppermint. it is sort of like a crunchy Junior Mint. And as a previous collector of tins this case is perfect to tuck into your purse, desk drawer, glove box...

It is a Christmas Craft!!

Oh the weather outside is frightful, but here inside its delightful, let it snow, let it snow, let it snow. It is snowing outside but making these snow flakes has been a fun way to spend a snowy afternoon. With just some paper and scissors you can make some pretty amazing snow flakes. No two are a like just like the real ones! And you never know what it is going to look like until you unfold it. And they look so cute on my living room window with the dark winter night in the background.

Kaiserslauterns Christmas Market pictures

After a trip the the Base Exchange on Ramstein AFB we took a side trip to the Christmas Market at Kaiserslautern. It was a fun way to spend a cold German evening!

A good thing to remember~

London Trip November 2010

It was not a typical Mitchell Thanksgiving, but we’ve not had one of those in the last 4 years.... So we headed for London (click on the link above for pictures).

It was cold, but pretty neat to ride the Ferry over from Calais France to Dover. It was a 90 minute ferry ride, kind of rough on the ride over but not too bad. As we headed off the ferry there were signs everywhere about driving on the LEFT... I noticed the Yield signs but they said GIVE WAY instead of yield.. It was very strange seeing the cars with steering wheels on the right. The country side was very pretty and the White Cliffs of Dover were very striking.

As we entered London it was so exciting to see the sights I had only seen in pictures, movies and TV shows. The weather reports were that Londoners were experiencing the coldest weather in 7 years (just our luck). Snow was in the forecast but we weren’t going to let that keep us holed up inside. We ate fish and chips, had a cup of tea and a beer and enjoyed the afternoon walk around town.

We had purchased a Hop-on Hop-off tour bus pass over the internet before going and used this to get us around London. In between stops we walked and toured. I picked up some souvenirs near the Tower. We enjoyed a great lunch at the Original Hard Rock Cafe and headed out for more sight seeing. It seemed to be a BIG Shopping day and the stores were packed! The masses were out doing their Christmas shopping. The store windows were all done up with lights and Christmas decorations.

It was dark by the time we got back to the hotel that evening. I was exhausted! As I crawled into bed I think I was asleep as my head hit the pillow. Alan however put on his head phones, fired up the laptop and started watching bedlam pre-game stuff. He stayed up all night watching the OU/OSU game and I didn’t even hear anything!

Sunday morning as we headed back it started snowing and by the time we hit Dover, the white cliffs were frosted with snow. The reporters on the BBC were reporting that we are in for the worst winter in Europe in 1000 years. And by the time we got back to our car on post it was covered with about 5 inches of snow~

It was a great trip...not long enough and next time we will fly!

18 days and counting...

Starting to set up the things I need to pack in my suit case! Little gifts I have picked up on my travels to be tucked into stockings!

Not sure how much room I am gonna have for clothes after I get all this stuff in the bag~

Getting excited!