Diana Elle Blog

A whole month has passed and we have nothing but a TV to show for it... haha well, i'm not complaining, it's spring time! We took another trip to Mannheim to pick up the Compression Garments, here's a video of the ride from Mannheim to Kaiserslautern. Last Sunday was Verkaufsoffener Sonntag, we took advantage and bought Avi her Easter dress, which she chose, and it kind of matches the second pair of compression garments (the birds are actually blue, the pants are mint green). You can see the one she wore last year here . It was a bit different from the ones we had been to in Hamburg, The streets were filled with market stalls, and they had ,many activities for kids, including a a train.  Two month's in and still no school for Avi,  I dislike the fact that they don't offer an actual vorschule (PreSchool) here. possible good news: I had a meeting with a lady an a kindergarten yesterday, to sign up and she told me that she has three lad...

October is a couple of days away and I hadn't posted a single menu plan this month, I had been keeping track of everything, I just wasn't sharing it here on the blog.  This past weekend was special since Pablo celebrated his 27th birthday yesterday.   Saturday he attended a seminar that a friend from Monterrey was giving at his University, after that we went to eat with him and some other Mexican attendees. We ended the night with a couple of beers at the Harburg Wein Fest. Sunday was Verkaufsoffener Sonntag (open sale Sunday). but we started the day at my friends house where we ate a cake we had made on friday, and left there to be refrigerated since ours is too small.. Then we went to a Mall and spent the day there. In regards to what we're eating: I'm still sticking to the usual, but a neighbor offered to take me 'grocery' shopping and show me which meats to buy since the only one I trust myself buying is ground beef. ...

Happy Travel Tuesday! I'm going to talk about Stade today.. but before I do let me tell you that Verkaufsoffener Sonntag (Open Sale Sunday?) happens four times per year and on 04. Mai (May 4th, 2014) all the stores were open in Stade Stade is a part of the Hamburg metropolitan region and located on the lower Elbe river. If you have a monthly ticket that covers Großbereich Hamburg with HVV you should be able to visit Stade without paying extra. Since we hadn't visited the city and had heard so many great things (our landlords used to live there a while back), I convinced Pablo we should go and we did! Here are some pictures from our day trip: SpiderAvi! I packed us a picnic to eat while there, but since all they had were open air stores, we were freezing. May weather in northern Germany is sometimes not what it's supposed to be! There wasn't much sun and a lot of wind, which made it chilly! All in all it was a really pretty city. We got to...