German Fever

After years of dreaming and months of (primarily Matt) planning, we bought the plane tickets for our European adventure later this year--Belgium, Austria, and Germany.  

The next day I hit my 200th-day streak of German language study with Duolingo.  (Though I've been on-again-off-again studying German since since 2020.)

So we celebrated both events last night!  I found an upbeat Bavarian folk music playlist on Spotify.  Matt put together a swell little German-inspired spread for dinner.  Two styles of German beer, two types of (vegan) sausage, freshly baked pretzels with two mustards for dipping, fried potato-and-onion fritters, and applesauce.  Yum.  Lecker. 

Later we watched a couple episodes of The Simpsons that feature Germans and/or Germany.  The highlight was "Burns Verkaufen der Kraftwerk."