the krokette 
Friday, March 18, 2005
Dutch Food
Please do not laugh at the picture. The Dutch take their food VERY seriously. This is called a Krokette and it is a common Dutch lunch meat. It has some sort of weird gravy in the middle. I had to eat these all week at lunch at the Lincoln plant in Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
I do not like Dutch food.
Temperatures have been near records this week. (20 C) Right now all of the windows are open!
GO GREEN! Unfortunately the game starts at 3:30 in the morning but you can be sure that the alarm clock will be set. I have bought a service on cbs.sportsline.com that gives me streaming videos of any game I want to watch.
Kelli is very proud to have BOTH of her alma maters in the tourney!
Later
D&K
Sunday, March 13, 2005
The Weekend
Hey Lori (everyone), We finally got internet access on Thursday and we couldn't be happier! Also, my email at work is now fixed, so feel free to send stuff there, too.Have had a nice weekend. It's Sunday morning, so we have had breakfast and are going to go walking thru the park and then take a drive, maybe to a winery down the road - one of the few things open on Sunday. Friday we had dinner and then went to the american sports bar and they had one of the big 10 games on but weren't going to play the state game, so we came home and Dan listened to the game from home. I was exhausted, but when he told me that they lost when he came to bed, I was shocked and disappointed. I just can't believe how poor they performed. This group of seniors are a lot like the Michigan Fab Five - they accomplished nothing! I've got hope for them in the tournament, but not sure how far...It wasn't the same not being able to watch the game with you and the rest of our friends....Yesterday we went to the market in Wiesbaden, which happens every Saturday. We bought some fresh produce and a roasted chicken that we had for dinner last night and was delicious! We then walked around and shopped - I actually bought my first clothing purchase, which was a shirt for Vegas for Jenna's wedding. We need to buy a TV and some small appliances, so we also went to MediaMart which is like our Best Buy. Dan was in heaven! It was nice just to look around at all the technology, but they don't have high definition TVs here. I guess they have better things to do with their time
Friday, March 11, 2005
Friday Night
Heading out to dinner in Wiesbaden tonight. Thought about going to the English speaking theater but all the movies that are out right now kind of suck. We are also going to go the the American Sports Bar that we found and try and find the Spartan game that starts at 12:40 A.M.!!
GO GREEN!
Thursday, March 10, 2005
We are online!!
Well, it took nearly 2 weeks but we finally got internet access.
I spent Monday and Tuesday in The Netherlands at Lincoln's plant there. I found out that I will be spending time in St. Petersburg, Russia as well as Croatia and Slovenia. Should be interesting.
The posts will be coming fast and furious now so check back often and leave comments!
D&K
Friday, March 04, 2005
Whole lotta pictures!
Wiesbaden - 2:55p.m. - 29 degrees and cloudy
Hi everyone!
I am sitting at an internet cafe right now as we will not have access in our house until the 10th. Internet cafes are these shady places where people smoke a tobacco plant worth of cigarettes and they charge you 2 euro per hour to connect.
We are learning that the Germans are not too keen on making appointments. Everything is VERY laid back and never set in stone. The most common phrase we hear is "in a day or two" which ends up being three.
I did end up getting my luggage on Wednesday afternoon! Let's just say I threw out my socks.
Kelli went to work yesterday (Thursday) and I begin on Monday. She drove to work all by herself yesterday and made it pretty easily. There is a portion of her commute on the autobahn where there is no speed limit. When we picked up our cars we got up to about 160 km/hr (~100mph) but had to get back in the right lane as there were a whole lotta people in faster cars on the road.
I am flying to Dusseldorf on Monday for a 2 day meeting. My boss lives in Barcelona and this will be the first time I see him face to face in about 5 years. He used to work in Cleveland and is now running Europe.
There is an awesome Thai place that we have been told about, I think we'll be heading there tonight. Gotta go for now but please post some comments when you check out the site. Enjoy the pictures, I took them on my walk here today. It may be easier to scroll all the way to the bottom and then up. That is the way I took them!
Take care everyone and we will talk to you soon!
Tschuss! (Bye)
D&K
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