It feels like forever since I posted, but it’s really only been a few days. My website has been acting odd lately, but the good folks at Media Temple have been on it since last week. Can’t say enough good things about those guys.

In the meantime, here’s where I’ve been:

Is that a one-man polka band, you say? Oh yes, my friend, it is. I’m part of a book club and one of the things we do that makes it a lot of fun is we have our monthly meetings at a restaurant that somehow relates to the book. This month’s discussion was about The Book Thief, which took place in Natzi Germany. So of course last Thursday we had to make a trip out to one of the few (if not only) German restaurant in north Texas, the Bavarian Grill in Plano.

What an awesome place! I wasn’t exactly sure what to expect, but I ended up having a lot of fun. Granted the polka music made it a little difficult to have a conversation with such a large group (there were about 11 of us), but how could you hate it? Plus they were able to accommodate us even though we just walked in (our waitress did a really great job considering she had to compete with the polka music and then deal with a large group of talkative ladies).

And you know, when it comes to ordering from a restaurant, I usually never have any trouble ordering from the menu. But one look at their menu online and suddenly I had NO idea what I wanted. My indecision was partly due to not knowing ANYTHING about German food, and partly due to not knowing German at all. Thankfully each item had a description in English I did order a lager off the menu, but I can’t even remember, much less pronounce what I had. It was good though. My friend Mindi and I already talked about bringing the boys back since they’re both beer aficionados. Plus I can’t say no to schnitzel now that I know what it tastes like!