Chelsea and Dave have been a wonderful addition to life in Oberursel. Here we are, baking 3 kinds of Christmas cookies all at the same time in their kitchen - crackle cookies, peanut butter balls, and biscotti.
Dipping the peanut butter balls in chocolate. We couldn't find rice crispies so we used extra-chocolately chocolate rice pops...and a little bit of ground coffee in the chocolate coating. Delish!
Felix's Adventskalendar - a little surprise every day!
We explored the Saturday market in Frankfurt - look at those great squash!
Chelsea, me, and Diane drinking gluhwein at the Wiesbaden Weinachtsmarkt (the Christmas market)...it didn't start snowing until the next day!
Felix & Diane... partners in yarn!
One night we went to listen to the church brass band playing Christmas carols...our new orienteering friends snuck us up to the top of the tower, on the little balcony which wraps around it. This was the view of Oberursel in the photo above. We thought we were going up for the view and then we'd go back inside to listen to the music, but instead the musicians came out onto the balcony as well and played their brass instruments out over the city from the top of the tower. We hid behind them, listening - best seats in the house!
Felix, Dad, Miranda, Pete and I hiked up through the thick powder to Fuchstanz for flammkuchen and beer...does life get much better than this?!
Dad shares his expertise making meat perogi. Felix and Jack are ready to eat!
Preparing for the feast...
Pete and Miranda came all the way from Santiago for Christmas in little Oberursel- here we are in my "backyard".
Diane takes a look behind the traditional timber-frame methods of the houses in Oberursel's Altstadt.
Our citrus-themed Christmas tree
Chelsea and Dave
Pete and Dad break oplatek.
Pete, Miranda, Chelsea, and Dave break into the Christmas popper jokes - the best one was something about pigs living in a styscraper!
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