Posted on Montag, April 06, 2009 at 4:51 PM by Reka
About two months ago, I called my brother-in-law. My sister was
immediately suspicious, supposing we were scheming. No, we answered
innocently, but we thought, devilishly, YES!
Matthäus is in his fourth year at an agritechnical high school here in
South Tyrol. They are required to do an internship for two weeks this
year. He asked us if he could do his in the States. We contacted his
uncle (my BIL) who got him hooked up with the Oregon Department of Fish
and Wildlife. I found him a team to practice soccer with, got him a
ticket, and...didn't say a word to my mom or sister. So I drove him to
the airport on Friday morning and he left for three weeks (Easter
vacation plus two weeks of internship) with my family. On Friday
afternoon Oregon time, he and my BIL walked into my sister's office to
say hi. One of the girls told Carol there was someone to see her. She
walked out, expecting a man bringing papers for her husband. Boy, was
she surprised! And her DIL was there to film it all, so I get to see the
look on her face!
In the meantime I had called my mom and told her that UPS contacted me
to say the package I had ordered would arrive that afternoon. As it was
kind of an important package, would she be home to take it in? She said
she would be. At 1:47 am my time, she called me to tell me there was no
package. She had gone down the street to the mailboxes, and saw UPS
driving farther down beyond her house on her way back. (Wasn't that nice
of Mr. UPS to match his schedule to mine? And I didn't even let him in
on the plan!) Seeing no package on the doorstep, she was a bit confused.
Just then, my BIL drove in and Matthäus walked around the corner. She
said she was really and truly struck speechless. What fun!
Posted on Donnerstag, Dezember 04, 2008 at 3:58 PM by Reka
Well, I suppose anyone who reads my blog (Thank you to the faithful
few!) has noticed that soccer is finished for the fall season. Matthäus'
last game got postponed due to snow...about 3 feet of it. We rarely have
snow in November, but this time it hit us hard. There was up to 5 feet
of the stuff near the Brenner Pass. We were fortunate and had only about
15 inches.
This was the view from our balcony about halfway through the low
pressure zone. The kids, dog and I loved it, but anyone who had to drive
sure didn't.
I thought I woud share a video of our dog with you. Our mini Schnauzer,
Vanilla, is two. You might think Vanilla is a funny name for a dog that
looks more like licorice, but it was her litter name, and since the four
of us couldn't agree on a name for her, that is what she stayed! Of
course, as with all parents, we think, as we do of our two-legged ones,
that our four-legged kid is pretty special. We crate trained her, and
she sleeps in her crate at night, locked in. She even opens the door
herself, as you can see here. Isn't that good of her?
