Only four more days...

until we leave this amazing city.

:(

Posing in Paris

A while back, my friend Rebecca posted about her trip to Paris and issued a little challenge. She found this photo in her travel guide and set out to find the exact spot so she could pose like the bronzed Parisian.
She and her friend did exactly that.
And then she extended the challenge to her readers. I had totally forgotten about it until we happened upon the spot. I couldn't remember exactly how or where they were posing, but I was surprised at how close our shots turned out.
And, of course, we can't leave out the Coop, even it was nap time.

Don't be dull...Be Dazzling!

The BeDazzler isn't just for clothes and shoes anymore...

(Photo via StarSparkles.com)

Someone in Berlin decided to take their car from dull to dazzling!

Sugar Shock

Hans Wurst Vegan Cafe

Last night we had a fantastic dinner at a little vegan restaurant in Prenzlauer Berg called Hans Wurst Vegan Cafe. You won't miss the animal products in these delicious, beautifully presented dishes. The meals are cheap (around 7 euros a plate) and served and cooked by dudes with sweet 80's rocker hair and jean short cut-offs. I think I recognized one of them from Poison. (I thought it was funny that this particular photo says "Flesh & Blood" since I'm using it to describe vegan chefs.)

(Photo via GamesNet)

I had the White Bean Rostis and Roasted Chickory with Basmati Rice and Ginger and Red Pepper Sauces. Pat had the Tofu Veggie Burger with Potato Wedges and Ketchup. Both of our dishes were so flavorful and so delicious.
Here are some close-ups:
And added bonus to the restaurant is this little play area that kept Cooper entertained while we waited for and ate our food on the patio.
Just a little sidenote, like with any restaurant in Europe, don't go if you're starving because it seems to take a long time to get your food once you've ordered.

Try this place if you're ever in Berlin. Trust me, you'll love it!

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Wallpaper

The last week has found me dreaming of home. I can't help but think about all the projects I want to get done when I get back. I've also been dreaming of Target. Oh, how I miss Target!

I was snooping around on the Target website today and came across some lovely wallpaper. I've never really been a wallpaper kind of gal, but I've been swooning over some of these patterns. I can't decide if I want to wallpaper our bedroom or the office. Or maybe both?

(Images via Target)

Burritos and Bowling

Since the beginning of Pat's program here in Germany we've been having "cultural dinners" with his coworkers. It's quite a diverse group with 21 people from all over the world. Each week someone from the group is in charge of organizing a dinner from their country or ethnicity. We've had just about everything from Brazilian to Thai, Cuban to Chinese, Indonesian to Peruvian, Russian and American (we had ribs at Tony Roma's).

This week the guy in charge is Belgium and his wife is from Mexico. They have traveled just about everywhere in the world and now they live in NYC. Because of their multi-cultural backgrounds, they could pick just about anything for the cultural dinner, but they decided on California-style burritos from Dolores. They were so good and reminded me of our last dinner in California. The night before we left we decided a giant burrito was the one thing we wanted before going to Germany. Little did we know that we would be able to get something comparable here in Berlin just around the corner from us.

Here are a couple shots of the group at Dolores.
Since this was a very inexpensive cultural dinner, we decided to go bowling afterwards. Patrick and I almost didn't go because we didn't know how Cooper would do at the bowling hour at such a late hour. To our surprise, he did great. He was absolutely mesmerized by the balls going down the lanes and coming out of the ball return.

He did not move from this location for the entire 1.5 hours that we were bowling.
By the end of the night he was totally ready to throw a 14 pounder down the lane.
It was so funny to watch him! He would burst out with a spontaneous "WHOOOOOOOAAAAAA!!!" every couple of minutes. It was cracking us, and just about everyone else up the whole night. This video just doesn't do it justice, but it's a pretty good taste of what we heard all evening.