And We're Back!

Everyone got to go school today which was a big victory!  Greta was wiped out on the trip home, but she actually ate lunch at school, so at least she had a bit of fuel.  They generally feed her terrifying food like soup and potatoes which she refuses to eat, but today it was spatzle.  Can you guess what was on the menu for dinner?  Yup, spatzle.  Too stinkin' bad kid!  

Greta likes to mix everything together.
Emery's response to my calling his burbing unhoflich (impolite).

My German teacher asked me to take a picture of it as it's not common in Berlin--certainly not as a homemade meal.  I had picked up that it came from the southwest--Schwabia more exactly.  I told her that our family called it knefley (Ok, I've never actually seen that written) to which she said the "fley" thing was really common in the Schwabian dialect.  Apparently, Schwabian is incomprehensible to a Berliner.  Great.  We're heading there next week.

Goodness, is that the blandest looking meal you've ever seen? Think I'll call it the white meal! Or maybe the beige meal...

Spending a lot of time trying to find hotels or flats for our planned whirlwind German tour with my mom next week.  The internet is great, but the overabundance of choice is killing me.  There are about 40 wineries with vacation apartments for rent around one little mountain.  How to choose?  But then maybe it would be better to stay in a town a bit further north so that we can reach the Black Forest Folk Costume Museum easier?  Yikes!  At least we'll have something interesting to report on shortly!