Île De Porquerolles

We are still wandering around France site seeing.   For this post we are in the south of France at one of my favorite places… Île De Porquerolles.   I love this island even though I have only visited it twice and both times just for the day. This place really has my heart.  Someday I…

Visit to Monkey Mountain (Gwen and her sister)

If you have read some of my past posts you might already know this but for anyone who doesn’t know… I would like to come out of the closet and let the world know that I love monkeys!!!  This week we visited Monkey Mountain and I am going to share some monkey love with all…

Up and Down in Luxembourg

I would like to share with everyone our little day excursion to Luxembourg.   This is my first time visiting this incredible “bank filled” city.  Luxembourg is only about a two hour drive from Strasbourg.  Speaking of Luxembourg… my nephew Joshua mentioned that his favorite picture of his grand parents (Isabelle’s parents) is one that…

Rainy walks in Strasbourg

Almost 18 years ago I came for the first time to Strasbourg to meet Isabelle’s family and ask her to marry me.   Our very first walk (first day) started at this cemetery and ended up in downtown Strasbourg.   That was a magic (nervous) time for me.  I recreate the walk every year with…

Weekend in Oberhausbergen

We have just finished our first weekend in France!   I am not sure that I have anything really exciting to share since I have not been a great tourist.  I kind of just hung out at my mother-in-laws house and pestered the kids. (I call it quality time and they call it papa annoying…

Off to France for Family Vacation

  I have not written anything here for a couple of weeks which is weird since during the past couple of years I have written posts for this blog every week.  Writing here has become a habit… hmm… wonder how many weeks I have to skip to get out of that habit?   (I bet…

Week in Orlando and Waffles

This past week I went to my company’s user conference in Orlando Florida.  While I try not to write anything about work in this blog I want to share something we did while at the conference.  I also want to share another family favorite recipe… My Yeast Waffles. (if you are searching for a connection……