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Timmy, JJ, and I went to the temple on Friday evening. It was Timmy’s first time. I’m so grateful for these two great kids!

I’m a little late on this post, but I wanted to finish up about our trip to Germany. After Berlin we drove to Frieberg, where our church has a temple. Fun fact, it is the only temple ever built behind the iron curtain! Unfortunately, we forgot to take pictures of the temple. But, I didContinue reading “Last day of Germany”

Turns out, it’s hard to bike in the snow. We only got an inch or two, but I was sliding all over the place. I fell once. My backpack fell off. I didn’t realize it for 2 blocks until I slipped again. Eventually I decided today was a day to work from home and turnedContinue reading “Snow!”

I am pretty far behind on my posts, but there is one I can’t delay. I am frequently impressed at how kind and considerate my colleagues here at Tilburg are. One just stopped by to tell me that he will be at a conference in the US this weekend and asked if there was anythingContinue reading “Kind colleagues”

In a previous post I talked about Nutri Scores. I thought I had them all figured out. Then we went to Germany. I stopped at a grocery store to buy some things for our lunch. I went to buy some lunch meat. They had scores of “D” and “E”. I realize that German meats haveContinue reading “Nutri Score, Part 2”

The Netherlands is almost an entirely cashless country. For example, I can neither deposit nor withdraw cash at my bank, and the lunchroom on campus doesn’t take cash. Most people don’t carry around cash at all. Street vendors, parking meters, etc. all accept the local bank transfer system here, and they often accept credit cardsContinue reading “Cash”

I’ve seen World War II and Cold War memorials before, but it’s a little different seeing it from Germany. Picture today after rubble cleared away.

Tuesday night we had dinner in Hamburg. We just started walking from our hotel until we found a restaurant that looked good. The first one we found was a Chinese buffet. It was the first all-you-can-eat buffet we’ve seen since leaving the US, so we jumped at it. It was a great meal, but notContinue reading “Multicultural Meals!”

The kids have this week off of school, and we’re all feeling better, so we decided to drive through Germany. As a quick tangent, we had originally planned on flying to Italy. However, every time I went to book flights, something felt off about it. I just kept putting it off. Good thing too asContinue reading “Hamburg”

New Years is a pretty big deal in the Netherlands. We were still recovering from the flu (we’d been taking turns being sick for about 3 weeks at that point; most of us were feeling better, but Linda and I thought that staying up till midnight wouldn’t be a good idea), so we didn’t stayContinue reading “New Years!”