The Dancing Crab

Have you heard of the famous steamed Maryland Blue Crabs? The ones that are served whole and you have to use a mallet to crack open the shell and then navigate your way through all of the sticky gooey stuff to pluck out the sweet delicious meat? Well, we decided to try them for the first time and they were awesome! We met up with Maria & Kevin & The Boy on Friday night at The Dancing Crab and gorged ourselves with crab meat, fries, and hush puppies. I have to admit, when I smashed my first crab and looked at all of the internal organs, I was a little bit intimidated. It was strange to just push aside the lungs (yes, lungs) and dig for meat in the tiny little creature. But by my second crab, I was concentrating too hard on finding the meat to think about my conscious! Horrible, I know. But we really had a fun night with Maria and Kevin. It's amazing how much you can see your own relationship in another couple's relationship:) And The Boy is soooooooo adorable and smart. Seriously, the baby knows sign language! And he was a total ladies man with all of the waitresses at the restaurant. I really think Maria and Kevin will have their hands full when he becomes a teenager. I mean, gorgeous and smart...Meine Güte!

Moving Update

Our little family of 3 made it to Virginia safe and sound. Unfortunately, our container from Germany did not. So that means we are in temporary housing, yet again, until the first week of July. AHHHHHHHHH! Ok. I had to get that out.

Auf unserem Weg

It's that time again. We are moving to Virginia, our place of residence for the next two years. The rest of my week will consist of boxes, suitcases, inventory lists, and of course, hanging out
with the movers. I say hanging out because after you've had a couple of guys in your house for 6 hours, wrapping and securing your most precious possessions and arranging your furniture, it's inevitable that you start talking, listening to CDs, and making Lattes for the guys. Or? At least this time around, the movers will speak English. Trying to explain why Lenny Kravitz is the greatest soul/rock artist of our generation, in German, was kind of hard. By the way, did you know that there is no word for "soul" in German? Not soul as in spiritual, but soul as in Marvin Gaye. Strange, huh?

Bis bald!

Seafood Pizza

One of the best things about Michigan is PizzaPapalis.
Many, many years ago, when I used to wear french braids and friendship bracelets, I tasted my first bite of Seafood Pizza and I was forever hooked! Loads of crab meat and jumbo shrimp - I can not think of a better pizza topping. While they are known for their Chicago style pizza, the thin crust pizza is just as good and not as heavy. G tries
to say that it's just "ok" but considering the fact that we polished off a large 17 inch in record time, I kind of think he's a fan too:)

This is my life.

I am sitting in the office, working on my blog, enjoying some time for myself, when G screams my name and suddenly appears in the doorway. He is butt naked with dirty t-shirts in one hand.
With a look of pure confusion, he says,
"Mein Schatz, how do you turn on the washing machine?"

Germany's Biblical Theme Park

BERLIN
If you ever fancied lunch in the Tower of Babel, visiting an "original size" Noah's Ark or a multimedia depiction of the final battle between Good and Evil, you may not have long to wait. Under plans announced by a group of Swiss evangelical Christians and reported by the German press, Genesis Park, a theme park based on the Bible, will open at a yet to be chosen site in Germany by 2012.

It will group some 40 attractions over an area the size of 70 football pitches encompassing all areas of the Christian story, according to the organisers' website. The centrepiece will be what the organisers call an "original size" Noah's Ark which is 150 metres (490 feet) long and surrounded by water. Other attractions will include two roller coasters -- one giving an idea of the Great Flood and another on the theme of heaven and hell -- a miniature version of Biblical-era Israel and a Roman amphitheatre. Visitors will be served food at the City of Enoch, a Tower of Babel panorama restaurant, an Old Testament-era desert tent, and a mock-up of Jerusalem at the time of Jesus -- also the location for the main shopping mall.

"We would like to transmit the story and the message of the Bible in an active and exciting way, so that many people in our society may have the opportunity to experience up close the most wonderful and fantastic love story of all, the love story of our Creator and Jesus Christ," the website said. The project is well short of the necessary 120 million euros (185 million dollars), but organisers are talking with German investors and hope to raise enough by the end of the year, according to the Frankfurter Rundschau daily.

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Summer in Michigan

OBAMA holt den Sieg!

Barack Obama

will be the Democratic nominee for President of the United States.