This is the ring I got Lisa for her birthday. She really appreciates all her gifts and cards. Everyone was very generous.

This is Lisa showing off here earring(s) that I got her for her Birthday. Not much you can do with an ear to show anything off, so we put in her whole head.

This is Lisa on her Birthday with most of here Birthday cards. Some arrived a little late (not anybody's fault) and will be updated soon.

This is Tammy finishing up the whopping 25 lb Turkey. I am not sure how many kilograms that is for our European friends.

This is me munching before Thanksgiving dinner. I though I was getting away with it.

This is Costi's youngest son Thomas munching out on cookies.

These are the main people I work with. Costi is on the left and Tammy is in the middle.

This is me driving off a bridge.

This was the rock cafe. There was no hard to be found. I smell a lawsuit.

This is Lisa going into the Rothenberg Christmas market. Rothenberg is a well preserved midieval city. Every year just about every village puts on a Christmas market. It is like the Mid-South fair, but with a Christmas theme and no rides or fried twinkies.

A view down the street in Rothenberg Christmas market.

Lisa eating lunch. I had one too. They were good.

A Nativity sceen. Even though it appears that the characters were life size, they weren't.

People playing Christmas music in the square at the Christmas market.

Me and Lisa and a maiden and a malnourished Knight. I think I could take him.

Me and a life size, no person inside, Teddy bear. I had this dream once......

Lisa eating or coughing up a schneeball.

Me eating a "schneeball" in front of the meat store.

Me asking for what I want for Christmas. I'm too grown up for the knee thing. Just a little "man to man".

A view up the street. This is apparently the picture that everybody takes in Rothenberg. There are even postcards of this picture. Here's my shot.

A very nice hotel. This was taken to give everyone the gist of they way buildings look around here.

Toy store window. I'll give you two guesses who wanted to stop here.

Ah, no place to get your world snacks like the "Crazy Butcher". Truthfully, Mickey, did we not see this franchise in Arkansas?

Hand cut cane whistles. My dad made me one of these before I left the states. At 1 Euro 50 each, send more! We could make a fortune.

Going under the wall into Rothenberg. With a hole in the wall this big, it is no wonder why the city always fell to invading armies.

A view of random wilderness.

A view of the old city wall. Rothenberg is "the best preserved midieval city in Germany" according to the guy at the chamber of commerce.

"We're having a ball in germany!" I actually came up with the blog caption before I took the picture.

Me having a weiner and saurkraut and being very happy/tired.

This is a picture we took INSIDE a toystore. Notice the tree's face behind the lady.

Indiana Jones on a break.

This is Lisa giving herself an uppercut in the City of Rothenberg hat.

This is a view of the alter of the Church in Rothenberg. It is apparently a famous work of art. They asked us to go up front to take the picture. We told them that we usually sat in back at Church.

This is a view of Lisa looking in a shop window in Rothenberg.

This is a view of the Carousel in front of the Church in Rothenberg.

This was the view of everything lisa wanted for Christmas through a shop window. Conveniently there was a lot of shopping there.

This is a view up the street in Rothenburg.

These are snowballs or Schneeballen. They were like hard meringue covered with other stuff. They look better than they are.

Kitchen window view first snow.

Our hill's impression of our first snow.

First Snow! (backyard view). Good snowball snow.

Lisa and Katherine in front of the "Ladies Man" version of the nutcracker.

The cathedral from the front.

The golden lit up thing in the background is where the Wise Men are buried.

Couple kissing in the church excessively. This is just before a priest told them to "knock it off".

Stained glass window. That's about all I can say.

"I think I see Seattle!"

Cologne, Germany from the Tower.

Big spikey ball thing.

A picture of the cross on top of one of the towers.