Goodbye Germany & Hello Maine :)

Goodbye Germany & Hello Maine, I’m coming…yeeeahh!

Just want to let you know that I’ll leave Germany in a few hours.
I’m so excited.
Everything is packed. Was kind of hard to close my suitcase; took me half an hour!!
In the end I had to put things out
It reminds me of Kathryn when she left Perth and had to pack some clothes out that she gave us…so I’m wearing now her jeans [If somebody is reading this and has her email address, please send it to me; I only have an invalid address from her…the e-kit one.]

The most stuff that is very heavy or hard to pack (because some is breakable) is lots of Christmas presents that I bring with me =) Should call me Santa Cola…not Santa Claus.

I’ll get to Maine on Sunday late afternoon. Nathan will pick me up with his jeep (yeah a typical American jeep..haha). I’ll arrive in Boston and if we are not too tired we will have a look around Boston! Cool, I cannot await it…
Hope to go on blogging there soon, but cannot promise when…probably sometime next week.
My cam is prepared, the battery is full, everything is packed, I only need a shower, but then I am ready to gooooooo!

Wish me luck with the flight and everything (that they let me into the country)…
I send hugs and kisses to all my friends, my sister and my family.

Talk to you soon.

peep…*32* hours until…

Dear Cola’s friends,
some people thought that Cola already is in bush country - she’s not! Still in merkel land (Merkel is Germany’s new chancellor-lady) but only thirty-two (32!) hours left and then *jumpjump* up up and away over the big ocean
Honestly, Cola’s nervousness becomes less the more it goes towards her flight, she told me.
Cola wants to show you her pictures from the last days (they are not very important or anything, it is just…what could it be…hihi…food, of course (damn)).

Here you see her last Grünkohl meal for this year (made-by-Cola’s-mom):

A few days later ChoCola couldn’t stand this very special and good chocolate any more. Nathan brought it with him from Alaska last June *superb* (the choc, but he as well :)):

wrapped……….

and….unwrapped - WOW!

“Food of the Gods”…yeah, it is!
or “Food of Cola” =)
But now it is gone…*sniff*…*schniiieff*

In the following pic you can see Mr. and Mrs. Wittling:

Caught, prepared, and fried by my dad.

Tastes similar to cod (Dorsch).

And last, but not least….something sweet again.
Nut cake with almond-liquor-icing:

before topping with whipped cream and (own) hazelnuts (from Cola’s garden)…

…and after topping.
This was actually the fastest cake bake ever…it took Cola only 10 minutes (without baking time in oven). Damn easy, damn fast and …delicious!
Especially if you take a cup of the liquor for the topping instead of only two spoons, as the recipe said.

That’s it with the last photos from Germany this year.
Cola is still writing on her thesis, she said, but the end is close.
She hopes that everybody has a good pre-Christmas-time and she would be happy if her friends leave her a note here or in her guestbook.
Have a good weekend & bye for now.

sugarbook is back

Just want to let you know that my sugarbook [guestbook] (some may remember it from my photo gallery from Perth) is back to virtuality.
I’d appreciate it if you sign it.
You’ll find it under “My Guestbooks” on the right sidebar right after the recent comments list.
You can still leave me comments on my posts; sugarbook is an addition to that and easier to read than the creative guestbook, but less creative of course.
Give sugarbook a chance
I’m happy when I can read a few lines from you…
Update: Now I have a blog guestbook, please use that.