SAHS Trip Around the World

The Stuttgart Area HomeSchoolers (SAHS) hosted a "Trip Around the World," where all of the homschool students were to select a nation or state of the USA and develop a project board, presentation and share some food and culture from that location. It took a good deal of work for the boys to put together their projects, but they loved the outcome. Daniel was quite animated with his presentation. But it was great experience for all the kids in learning their subjects, and even doing a bit of public speaking.

With the presentation, Vivian and the kids prepared Kailua Pig, rice and Haupia (a coconut milk pudding) Everything tased so good it made me want to go back to the Islands!

After the event, I created a SAHS Flickr photo group to collect photos from anyone in the group. All of ours are in a set, and a few of the photos above are actually from our good friends Isakson's set.

Happy Birthdy Vivian!

I hosted a suprise party in Vivian's honor on her birhday at the Sulzbachtal Resturant, a local Swabish place just outside of Steinenbronn. Instead of gifts, I had everyone bring some encouraging words for Vivian. She was truely suprsed and uplifted!

Blue and Gold Banquet

BSA troop 324 here at Patch Barracks hosted their annual Blue and Gold banquet 25 Feb. It was my first Blue and Gold banquet, so I'm not sure what was tradition or new. One thing for sure though was that the boys ate it up!

First, Mr. Larry knighted all the squires from Daniel's bear pack. After which they boys led a procession around the "royal court" with their protected princesses. :)

The dinner that followed was a grand potluck, after which we were able to enjoy beautiful and wonderfully crafted castle cakes in the midst of midevil-themed table decorations.

The remainder of the banquet was filled with presentations, and a few other ceremonies.

One ceremony was the application of the Bear Rank war paint. Daniel was especially happy to get marked up like a little Indian!

Long weekend for Fasching

The 17th of February was a long, busy day! We started off by going to the weekly Saturday Stuttgarter market. We (ok, Vivian and I...) enjoy walking and browsing over the fresh local produce, fragrant flowers and and yummie foods.

The weather was still so nice after we had our fill that we decided to go on a bit further out. We intended to go to Schloss Stettenfels, an old fortress near Heilbronn. When we got there it turned out to be closed, but it was pleasant to walk around it and enjoy the view from the hilltop.




Since we got done there a bit quicker than we were intending, we decided to go take a look at Heilbronn. But when we were trying to get to the old town (Altstadt,) all the roads were blocked!, when we realized that they were blocked off for the Fasching parade. So we parked and watched the festivities. It was quite a hoot!