May 10, a Monday, Russ very generously rolled my suitcase to the tram and to the Wrocław railway station. He helped me find some food and soda at the alternate railway shops (remember, it's being renovated) and then carried my bag up the stairs to the train platform and got me on the correct train. Yay! Good to visit with them; don't think I need ( Read more... )

My first weekend on my trip overseas, I had the big fun of hanging with Bob, Katie and their kids at the Tiergarten Zoo. Berlin actually has two major zoos, one west and one east (the Communists had one too). The Tiergarten (which translates as "Animal Garden") Zoo is odd to me because it's there in downtown Berlin, admittedly with the long ( Read more... )

Friday night on my trip to Europe, Bob and Katie showed me the Zehlendorf area just down Clay Allee from their neighborhood. Plus, we invited ourselves into an apartment down there where their oldest girl, Quinn was spending the night with a friend. The family had only recently moved in, and it was a cool old WWII era building with tall ceilings ( Read more... )

So this is me pretending the plane ride to Europe on 29 April was a totally separate thing from the real vacation, which means that I can state ( Read more... )

Lunch with Writergrrls friends at Tarbouch, the Lebanese restaurant right next to Curra's on Oltorf. Good talks and socializing. I was all about my Berlin Travelguide book -- going to Europe soon now ( Read more... )

If you're a mutha, happy day to you. My mom and the rest of my family will be over around lunchtime to celebrate the day, and my birthday. I got to choose the lunch venue, so I chose (heh heh heh) Bone Daddy's. I can guarantee there will be no twee roses and ruffles there! Plus, in an example of family mind-melding, my brother had just sighed to my ( Read more... )

My buddy J4 and I went to Cape Cod last week, staying in a darling little community called Craigville, which is near the Centerville Beach, one of the nicest beaches on the Cape, I learned ( Read more... )

My family has a clump of birthdays in April/May -- six out of seven in the immediate family! My mom got her gift from me early when we went to a performance of THE LION KING on-stage at Bass Concert Hall ( Read more... )

Brandy and friends threw Matt a 39th birthday party a few weekends back. Now that my email address has been updated in his Evites, I got invited again! (Matt regular invites 70+ people to his parties.) This one was not at the 900 sq foot home in Crestview, but at the sprawling home of Raj and MaryRose off 2222. It was fun because I recognized ( Read more... )

Wow, the theatrical version of Disney's THE LION KING is quite a treat! It's playing at UT's Performing Arts Center through March 24, and I highly recommend it. It's pricey ($77 per ticket for the floor / orchestra, when all fees and handling charges are tacked on), but really special. I took my lame old mom to see it Friday for her birthday, and ( Read more... )