Hope your weekend was amazing!
Adam and I were watching the news one morning and they were doing a special segment in Milwaukee on a play going on this month, "The Diary of Anne Frank". I have always been so fascinated by the Holocaust and have read Anne's diary before, so I was in the mood to check out this play.
Adam and I live in this wonderful area of Wisconsin that is 45 minutes from Milwaukee and 1 hour from Chicago. You basically have two mega cities at your fingertips for all the fun stuff, and then go home to your smaller lakefront city while agreeing that as fun as the big cities are, you could never live there. Best of both worlds, holla.
We aren't big theatre buffs, but the acting was excellent and the set design was amazing! They basically replicated the space in 2 floors instead of three, but the square footage was very close to the real deal. Afterwards we hit up the Milwaukee Brat House to get a giant bavarian pretzel, a couple of brats and an unhealthy dose of Sauerkraut.
Diary of Anne Frank Play + German restaurant= irony?
Yesterday was crazy warm outside so we decided to go ahead and put up christmas lights early.... Which basically entails me trying to tell Adam something doesn't look right while he is precariously standing on a ladder 25 feet above the ground.
Sorry Adam. Unfortunately you married someone who is as bad at putting Christmas lights on a house as she is bossy. Not a good combo.
I'm not sure what form of holiday decorating could be more dangerous than putting up Christmas lights though. Seriously. But in the event of a catastrophe, everyone calm down. Lily's got it. She always sits off to the side, wind blowing her hair, just keeping watch over the herd. Until a squirrel runs in the yard.
Christmas decorating is kind of like eating one of those fun size candy bars. You'll just have one. And then 2 hours later you are wanting to put a blow-up 12 foot Santa in your yard and the entire bag of Kit Kats is a goner.
What do you usually do for Xmas decorating? Do you go a little overboard or keep it simple? I am a total minimalist, so the only thing that keep ours simple is the fact that the other 11 months out of the year, we have to store the stuff.
-Lauren
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Oh the irony of seeing the diary of anne frank and then eating german food...just blame the craving for a really good pretzel. You couldn't help yourself.
I agree. You couldn't help it.
Oh my. I am jealous that you live in between 2 big cities! My husband is a city boy at heart and I appreciate it, and could certainly use one around here! Live it UP. That's all I have to say. :)
@lauren and christine- yes, lets just all agree that a 12 inch diameter pretzel really can't wait, no matter what play about the holocaust you may or may not have seen 30 minutes prior to that moment.
@mary beth- I know. I really do feel blessed to have both of these awesome (and totally different) big cities within an hour of me! But I still will enjoy my little city the most :)
Your theatre evening was definitely ironic, but it still sounds like a great time :)
And this year, my Xmas decor is going to be HUGE! I'm definitely eating the whole bag of fun-sized snickers!
@Sara Louise... YAY. Go big or go home on those decorations. Blast out the neighbors with your xmas lights!
I love German food. My grandmother grew up in Germany during WWII, so we have all sorts of stories. Nothing like Anne Frank, though. And the best food ever. Luckily sauerkraut is actually really healthy, because we eat it in my family /a lot/.
Christmas decor? The best. Also, your pupschen is urber cute!
And by "urber" I mean "uber". I accidentally spelled it the way I pronounce it (kind of) because of the umlaut that's supposed to be placed over the u. Whoops!
Thanks Lara!
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