Some photos from my trip

nobody@vox.com(Heike) — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:12:43 -0400

Tooks lots of photos over the last few days.... Thought I'd share some of the happier ones

Here are me and my Papa out to lunch on Sunday.

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this was in the Altstadt of Heidelberg..

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Tasty German beverages while we did some people-watching...

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This is my Oma's "Rumtopf" that I am getting. I was hoping to get the bowl that my grandmother used to serve Maultaschen (story about them here) out of, but my dad claimed it. A Rumtopf is used to make a delicious fruit liquor-thingy that you pour over ice cream or add to champage around Xmas/NYE. You start it in the spring/summer and takes about 6 months. Into the Topf goes whatever fruit is in season along with equal parts sugar and rum. You continue to do this throughout the fall. By Christmas, the fruit has fermented into wonderfulness...... It's not easy to make, because if you put fruit in that is over-ripe it will ruin the whole batch.

I wasn't able to bring the Rumtopf home on this trip, but will bring it back with me next time. It needs to sit in a dark, cold place like a basement when you are making it to and since we're STILL in this apartment, we aren't able to use it immediately anyway....

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nobody@vox.com(Heike) — Tue, 18 Dec 2007 10:28:41 -0500

If you could easily choose to live in another country without all the red tape and legal stuff, which one would you select and why?
Submitted by Matthew 25.

This is a no brainer.... Adam and I both LOVED spending time abroad junior year. Neither of us speak German well enough to have a full time job that relies on using the language full-time, but it should would be a fabulous experience. (Adam's job doesn't even exist in Europe!) We go through periods of talking about moving abroad - England, not Germany, but the red tape and legal hurdles are tough. I could do the exact same thing I do now working in London and I would want Adam to go back to school while we were abroad. Most recently, we threw around this idea, when a colleague of mine up & moved to England this summer.

I feel like we kind of missed our opportunity to live abroad and should have done it in our mid/late 20s not as we approach 30 - a few of our friends have recently moved back to the states from having lived abroad. Not moving to Germany after I graduated from college is one of my few regrets.

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