My exchange family

Me and Tabea, AKA My German, in Nurnberg.


Tabea, Gunther, Renata, and myself. My second family that I have known for 12 years! This is my third visit with them. That equals I see them once every four years on average. Pretty neat.

As some of you may know, I was an exchange student in Germany during my junior year of high school. I stayed with a family in Erlangen, just north of Nurnberg.

Dinner in a Castle with the Stammisch Group

The Stammisch group is the German-American group that I am part of. We meet every other Wednesday. This was a special Stammisch event, we had dinner in a castle in the Rheingau. This dinner took place in April.

The man in this picture is Eric the Red. He gives tours of the Rheingau. In fact he had a brush with famous because he gave a tour of the Rheingau to John F. Kennedy in 1963.




Amanda, Eric, my mom, Cami and me.

Cuisine

Homemade Ravioli in Florence.



Spargel - White asparagus,

Sandwich with Hollandaise sauce ham, cheese, and spargel



Spargel - White asparagus
With gnocchi and gorgonzola sauce..... YUM!!!



Gorgonzola with bacon pizza. YUM! Fresh Gorgonzola! This is in Pisa.

Field Work

A picture of me in the field work (although it is posed). Mission: identify with a GPS location of contaminated soil so we can label it and have the contractors find it easily.

Gross but True

I think this is how slugs make babies. If anyone knows, tell me. But this definitely goes under the disgusting category.


As some of you may know, I walk to work every day. Along my walk I always see slugs and snails. Disgustly big slugs. Sadly these creatures cause my walk in the morning to be longer than my walk in the afternoon because I do not want to step on one of these.


Snail


Slug - Look at how fat this dude is. GROSS

Bamberg

My parents with Corky trying to get him to drink the water from the fountain.



Some strange thing in the church, perhaps virgin and child. That they look pretty fancy to me, too fancy to be the virgin and child.


Rose from the rose garden.




Me

This where city hall is, the middle of the river, because there were Catholics on one side of town and Protestans on the other so it was put in the middle of the river so either side had control.

Bamberg is home of the Smoked Beer and is a World Heritage site.

My Fourth of July (actually the 3rd but who cares)

Fireworks from the boat



The parade of boats following our boat.


Sunset from the boat


My parents and I went on a river boat cruise down the Rhein River. The castles went lit with red lights and fireworks were going off. It was pretty beautiful.