My Birthday and Brian's Birthday

For my birthday, Brian took me to brunch at the Wasgau (a German grocery store!) because we had noticed a few weeks before when we stopped in after our antique shopping that they have some really great breakfasts at some of the bigger stores in the bakery.  Fast food places and even cafes are kind of scarce in Germany.  The grocery stores or bakeries are where you get a quick breakfast or lunch, commonly.    This was the "full breakfast".  It was so much food!

Meats and cheeses (Salami und Kase), a hard boiled egg (Ei), two rolls (zwei Brotchen), orange juice (Orangensaft) and coffee (Milchkaffe)

After a leisurely brunch, we ended up swinging by one of the antique store again because they had emailed us that they had more Brittany pieces in.  We ended up getting a stained glass of St. Peter and a Demijohn.  If you've never heard of a Demijohn, go to this Etsy link to see one for yourself.  Ours is green glass and will be holding our corks.  Here's to hoping that none of our kids or their friends fall into it since it has to be on the floor.

We went home to hang out with the kids a bit before our dinner out without them.  Brian must've thought I needed a break.  :)  For a late dinner, we went to Marathon which is a Greek restaurant owned by the parents of two girls on Hannah and Genna's basketball team.  I went there for their basketball Christmas party, but Brian had not been there yet.  It is really good Greek food.  I had the Gyros Spezial  which was Gyros meat in a Metaxa sauce with mushrooms, onions, and peppers, Uberbacken (direct translation is overbaked) with cheese.  It was absolutely amazing!  Even better than the Gyro pizza that I had last time.  Brian had lamb and he said it was exceptional.

I got the royal treatment that Saturday, as you can see, but my poor husband's birthday fell on a Tuesday.  He had to work and then we went as a family to our favorite Italian place nearby.  They know us there, we have our special family table (AKA Stammtisch) and Brian loves that.  I wish I'd thought to take a picture!

We were both showered with cards and pictures from all five of the oldest children too!  It's so nice when the children work so hard to make you a gift.