{MATCHLESS} PHOTOGRAPHY wedding photographers » the Netherlands http://matchlessphotography.com/blog wedding and portrait photography in san angelo texas Tue, 31 Aug 2010 20:56:30 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 Random Germany photos http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/12/21/random-germany-photos/ http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/2009/12/21/random-germany-photos/#comments Mon, 21 Dec 2009 14:08:25 +0000 admin http://matchlessphotography.com/blog/?p=1588 Blog:  Random Germany photos
One afternoon Tom and Svenya invited a few of their friends over for cookies and gluwein.  Svenya had made tons of christmas cookies and even had a few store bought traditional ones.  Since I (Andre’a) absolutely LOVE cookies, i decided to try them all.  Why not?!?!  It is Christmas time and I needed to taste some authentic german baking!  So, here is a picture of my gingerbread cookie that Svenya made.  In the background is another Christmas dessert.  It’s a cake that has a few layers – which makes it shaped like a tree – thats why it comes out at christmas time.
That night, Tom and Svenya gave us an option to eat some German food or go to a Mexican Restaurant.  Colin completely shocked us all and chose the German food.  I mean, he hasn’t had real mexican food in over 2 months and has been craving it, and yet opted for the Schnitzel.  He said he’d be home soon enough and wanted to try something new.  So both of us ordered a schnitzel  with mushroom sauce.  I think we were both a bit surprised at how enormous they were!  We could have easily shared one, since we both filled up on cookies a few hours before!  But that’s ok, we were able to get a doggie bag and take our leftovers home.  The only problem was, in Germany they have a saying “You must finish all the food so the weather will be good.”  Well, the weather is always rainy at this time of year – but at least now they could blame it on us not finishing our food!
Since we were so close to the Netherlands, we hoped on over there on morning to check it out.  Unfortunately, it was Sunday and 95% of the shops didn’t open until 1pm.  So, we just wondered the streets for awhile until we were tired of walking in the rain.  Here is a picture of one of the chapels in the Netherlands.
On our way home that day, we stopped in another little town – that i can’t remember the name of – to walk around.  Here are a few pictures from there.

One afternoon Tom and Svenya invited a few of their friends over for cookies and glühwein.  Svenya had made tons of christmas cookies and even had a few store bought traditional ones.  Since I (Andre’a) absolutely LOVE cookies, I decided to try them all.  Why not?!?!  It is Christmas time and I needed to taste some authentic german baking!  So, here is a picture of my gingerbread cookie that Svenya made.  In the background is another Christmas dessert.  It’s a cake that has a few layers – which makes it shaped like a tree – thats why it comes out at christmas time.

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That night, Tom and Svenya gave us an option to eat some German food or go to a Mexican Restaurant.  Colin completely shocked us all and chose the German food.  I mean, he hasn’t had real mexican food in over 2 months and has been craving it, and yet opted for the Schnitzel.  He said he’d be home soon enough and wanted to try something new.  So both of us ordered a schnitzel  with mushroom sauce.  I think we were both a bit surprised at how enormous they were!  We could have easily shared one, since we both filled up on cookies a few hours before!  But that’s ok, we were able to get a doggie bag and take our leftovers home.  The only problem was, in Germany they have a saying that says if you do not eat all the food off your plate, it will rain the next day.  Well, the weather is always rainy at this time of year – but at least now they could blame it on us not finishing our food!

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Since we were so close to the Netherlands, we hoped on over there on morning to check it out.  Unfortunately, it was Sunday and 95% of the shops didn’t open until 1pm.  So, we just wondered the streets for awhile until we were tired of walking in the rain.  Here is a picture of one of the chapels in the Netherlands.

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On our way home that day, we stopped in another little town – that i can’t remember the name of – to walk around.  Here are a few pictures from there.

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Our friends Tom and Svenja

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colin laughs every time we run across one of these signs…

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By Colin and Andre’a Feldhaus

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