She's getting big!Another great weekend had by all! We hadn't planned on celebrating Cinco de Mayo, it just sort of happened. Melissa and I had been discussing having a Taco Night for a couple of weeks and it spawned into a full out Mexican fiesta.
Back up a little bit - we kicked off Friday evening with a great walk with Stella where she made friends with the most beautiful Rhodesian Ridgeback I've ever seen (I'm telling you all right now, we WILL have a dog like that one day). Once she was good and worn out, we headed to the Adler and I added another kind of schnitzel to my list, jagerschnitzel. We've become friends with the owner and knowing that we are American he asked if we could get him a few boxes of Honeycombs. That's right, as in cereal. They can't get it here and they're not allowed to shop at the Commissary. The Black Market of breakfast cereal. Gotta love it. After the Adler, we made our way over to Eva's where we are also becoming "regulars" much to the dismay of the actual German "regulars." They'll get over it, we're here to stay (at least for a few years).
Melissa and I started discussing what we should do for our Taco Night turned Mexican Fiesta and the bartender, Anitza, overheard us talking. She had lots of questions so I invited her to join us, thinking nothing of it.
The boys played golf Saturday morning, so Melissa and I took it upon ourselves to venture downtown and hit up the H&M. Believe it! I have an H&M just a trolley ride away from my house now. Woooohoooo! We spent a couple of hours shopping then headed home to start cooking.
I made a delicious 7 Layer Bean Dip (miss you Amy!) and some tasty beer-ritas (miss you summers in Dallas). We also had awesome queso (which you will NOT find here), Tommy's homemade salsa, fajitas and some pretty fantastic chicken enchiladas! The greatest part was that right at 5:00 pm, Anitza and her husband actually showed up and she brought chili. I couldn't believe she came but was so excited she did as we had the best time hanging out with her and her husband. Our first official German friends! Yeah! We're already planning to spend Memorial Day Weekend with them (if we don't travel somewhere) and potentially a trip to Paris in the near future.
We all stayed up late playing Guitar Hero so Brad and I were pretty lazy Sunday morning. At about noon we had a knock at our door; one of the upstairs neighbors thought we should all have a cookout that afternoon. Granted we were a little tired, we weren't about to miss the first cookout with our new neighbors. All four families joined in - everything from brats to chicken wings to hot dogs to veggies. Not to mention cookies, cupcakes, and a yummy bread bowl dip. You'd think we'd all sink into a food coma after all of that but we finished it off with an intense game of Monkey in the Middle with the football. You'd be surprised how exhausting that can be. Needless to say, Brad and I could barely keep our eyes open and crashed at about 9:00 that night.
I can't wait until we start traveling a little more on the weekends but until then - this isn't a bad way to spend them. :)
In other news - Brad and I have finally received our new camera (thank you Debby!) so pictures of the town should be up soon. Just waiting for a little bit better weather, it's been overcast. In the meantime, enjoy some pictures of Miss Stella.
Playing with Dad
Attacking her new ball! Superdog!
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