things i miss

so it hit me the other day... there are a couple of things i miss about the states. now mind you its little things, for instance... i love book stores. i love sitting in bookstores with friends and browesing the shelves and just about every thing about them. the problem is that now all the book stores i find (which to be perfectly honest arent that many) all the books are in german! go figure! it makes it very hard to ready any of the books, unless they are picture books... then i guess you could call it reading the books but it is not the same thing. so book stores i am missing.
on the other hand i could spend HOURS in german grocery stores! i am serious! they are amazing things!! they have everything and none of it is in any particulare order! for example: in 1 isle you can have (and i am serious) juice, longsleeve t-shirts and flip flops, and hair dye. then in the next isle you may have bag food, which is like dehydrated food you add water to! in the same isle as baby food and gummy candy (which i have to say is pretty darn good). i have taken to buying random german food that looks good and then trying to figure out how to cook it. with the directions being all in german (and not a whole lot of pictures... maybe they should get togther with the story book people) it makes cooking very interesting! i have found that cooking in general has become an adventure. if i buy frozen food on base that comes with cooking instructions in english,, the problem becomes that the temp in english is not the same as my german stove which is in celcious. but all in all i am having a great time trying to figure out all these new adventures!
today is that start of holy week. i encourage you all to read the story of what Jesus did for you this week so many years ago. at times i feel like forget what he really went through for us. you can read the account at the end of all 4 gospels in the Bible.

happy easter!