getting ready for the party!

This year we have the honor of having the american + friends of americans + whoever else we invite, HALLOWEEN PARTY!!! sooo in preparation for the big day i was forced... i mean encouraged to be in charge of the music, and here's the list that i have so far if you have any suggestions PLEASE tell me i need all the songs i can get!!

DOUGHNUTS!!

Just the other day I had a mad craving for really good american doughnuts, but i was unfortunately sick so i didn't actually participate in the making per-say, but i did over see the over sight of operation doughnut! We got the recipie from a friend of ours and got to work early on sunday morning only to find out later that we had forgotten all about the oil - that you need to cook the doughnuts... kind of a crutial ingridiant if you think about it, so we had to drive all the way to jim and amory's to steal their vegtable oil seeing as how the supermarket was closed and no one else had any!!! But it all worked out and we all got doughnuts in the end!!!

ummmm... chocolate

http://mykugelhopf.ch/ check out this link to the blog mykugelhopf! it makes me want to eat lots of chocolate and watch the movie Chocolat and drool over johnny depp!!!

Oktoberfest

THE OKTORBERFEST the Oktoberfest!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well its that time of year… which means that the Oktoberfest has started! This has made me very very nostalgic for that hops making beer drinking slap knee dancing land of BAVARIA!! So I decided to get some info about it and put it up!
The Oktoberfest for those of you who don’t know,is a 16 day festival, held in Munich, where you go to eat, drink , shop and go on roller coaster rides ( sounds like a great combination- in that order) . Over 6 million people attend the festival each year! It all started back on October 18, 1810 – it was originally a celebration for the marriage of Prince Ludwig and Princess Therese (the Bavarian princess). It first started out as a horse race (which I can testify to be tons of fun) up until 1960 when it turned into the worlds’ largest festival!
The festival starts off with the traditional 12 gun salute and the tapping of the very first keg (at 12:00) by the major with a cry of “ O’zapft is”- means it’s tapped in Bavarian! Then the party begins: rides start up and the kitchens fire up the oven of the next 15 days! Classic foods served at Oktoberfest are ; schweinsbrate, haxn ( knuckle of pork), steckerfisch ( fried fish on a stick), wurstel, kasepatzel, brezeln ( pretzel) and my personal favorite … curry wurst!
If you’ve ever been to this “big” event you probably noticed all the people walking around wearing the traditional Bavarian attire… the dirndl (that usually consists of a full skirt, tight bodice and gathered shirt) and of course the men’s LEDERHOSEN!!! Which are practically leather shorts and suspenders … soooooo stylish!!
Fun facts: Around 6 million people attend, of that 72% of the people are Bavarians
The festival takes up 103.72 acres of land in the middle of the city!
About 6,940,600 liters of beer are drunken, 142,253 pairs of sausages and about 4000 items are lost by people including: 260 glasses, 200 phones and even wedding rings!

A piece of my wall!

I was looking around my room today and I have a lot of pictures and pages from magazines hanging up… so I thought I’d share some pieces of my wall!

old pictures!

old picture of me from rachaels birhtday party!

the last supper with famous actors and singers!
christmas card from a friend in germany who went around Ingolstadt

this is a board i made of all the magazines that we "collected" in the US.

tickets from our trip to london- to the shows wiched and treasure island!

SHOPPING!!!

I went shopping the other day (and i haven’t been in soooo long because i've been pretty much broke for a month) and i'm REALLY really excited about what i got:

1st- I’ve been looking for what they call a boyfriend blazer ( its like a mans blazer- hence the name “boy-friend” as if you stole it from your man on your way out the door!!) and I finally found ONE!!!!! Its really fun and its got this big pin thing on the front!!!! And best of all I matches the rubber boots that I got later! I’ve been playing around the idea of getting some “wellys” ( as the British call them) and I saw these in a kind of home decorating store and i gott’m…. needless to say that put me over my money limit and so I plan to spend the rest of the week cleaning and re-organizing to earn the money back so I can repay my parents , but it was totally worth it!!!
Went I got home I had Olivia snap some pictures of the new additions of my closet… and I had to just jump up on the table… it was pretty fun!

SHOPPPING