My kind of town, Chicago is...

Thomas wrote:

Saupreißn! Running a Bavarian restaurant! Oh, what insult! Oh, what injury! Please excuse me while I'm fainting.

... but I gess that's how God punishes those who drink Budweiser at Wrigley Field.

We know you'll be with us in spirit too, Thomas.

I've added SIL and BIL to the dinner reservation (I think Mr B was feeling overwhelmed by being the only non-A2Ker). They are not planning on staying for SL because, just like everyone else I know, it's past their bedtime. What's wrong with these people???? The friends who backed out previously are not coming. Gargamel is using one of the extra tickets and we still have one left if anyone wants to bring a friend. Or, we can try to talk SIL and BIL into staying and purchase one additional ticket at the door (assuming it isn't sold out). XRT is sponsering the show and has started playing SL tracks, but I think it's more likely that Saturday's show will sell out.

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JPB,

You need to get Gargamel in a group photo.

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Thomas wrote:

Saupreißn! Running a Bavarian restaurant! Oh, what insult! Oh, what injury! Please excuse me while I'm fainting.

... but I gess that's how God punishes those who drink Budweiser at Wrigley Field.

It is rather odd that a Westphalian family is running a Bavarian restaurant. Maybe the concept of a Westphalian restaurant didn't appeal to the American palate.

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We Westphalian restaurants are better known in e.g. Missouri and Texas than in Chicago, I fear:

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Westphalia is the oldest German Catholic community west of the Mississippi River

(The church there was founded by some distant relative of me)

A bit about Muenster/Texas:

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Tourism is prospering here because of our German pride. People visit our town just to sample the ethnic food we're famous for. Our award-winning meat markets produce some of the best authentic German sausages you'll ever eat. The backerei, or bakery, offers mouth-watering strudels and other delectable goodies. This is the town where schnitzel, bratwurst and kraut are the staples of our diets.

One of the best advantages about living here is that we are a hard-working, close-knit town whose people practice the traditional values of honesty and respect. Located about an hour and 10 minutes from the Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, we're close enough to access busy city life, but far enough away to avoid urban crime.

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wandeljw wrote:

JPB,

You need to get Gargamel in a group photo.

Photo? Um.... maybe, maybe not :wink:

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hamburger wrote:

"frau glunz" did the cooking and baking when (the now) mrs h and i "tied the
knot )" some 50 years ago !
(i think the word 'caterer' had not yet been invented )
we still talk about the wonderful food she served up at that time .
mrs h's mother - who came from eastern-prussia - was also quite active in the kitchen .
the dining room 'tables' were filled with plenty of food - i think it was what is now called ' a groaning board ' .
the mennonite saying : "ess , ess, mein kind " certainly applied here .
HBG
ps don't recall where "frau glunz' came from - just a good neighbour of the in-laws .

I like that story. Thanks, hbg. I'm sure none of us will leave hungry from the looks of the menu.

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Okay so I'm meeting y'all at 9:00? Do I have that right? And what d'yall look like?

Me I'm easy to pick out. Skinny, pale, messy red hair.

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Gargamel wrote:

Okay so I'm meeting y'all at 9:00? Do I have that right? And what d'yall look like?

A couple of them are pictured on the Chicago meeting thread.

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Gargamel wrote:

Okay so I'm meeting y'all at 9:00? Do I have that right? And what d'yall look like?

Me I'm easy to pick out. Skinny, pale, messy red hair.

This is Sublime and me from a year ago http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=1663386#1663386
my hair is shorter now, more like this http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2041962#2041962

This is joe
http://www.able2know.com/forums/viewtopic.php?p=2041958#2041958

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Gargamel wrote:

Okay so I'm meeting y'all at 9:00? Do I have that right? And what d'yall look like?

Me I'm easy to pick out. Skinny, pale, messy red hair.

9:00 is good; give me a call when you're close and I'll let you know where we are. If we aren't already at Martyr's we'll only be a few blocks away.

BIL is sick and probably won't join us. SIL might be convinced to stay later.

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Alright, thanks for the links Walter. I should be able to spot everybody.

And J I'll call you as I get close.

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For my friends in Chicago: http://us.f811.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?action=welcome&YY=77604478&.rand=avp4umuu8rgha

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CI!!!! There you are! Your link doesn't work, but no matter. It's good to see you back. How've you been?

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JPB, The link was supposed to direct you to a party in Chicago on trying to win the olympics. Sorry, but I can't remember anything else.

I've been fine, and will be on the road again on Friday on a 15-day tour to Israel. My wife, younger son, and I visited DC for seven days last month. We stayed at the Marriott at the Georgetown University campus, and really got to know more about Georgetown - as a pleasant place with many good restaurants.

Thanks for the welcome back. Wink

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I stayed at the same hotel for the 4th of July bicentennial celebrations in DC in 1976. We walked EVERYWHERE! I'm trying to remember the restaurant that's famous for their biscuits, hmmm..... dunno now, but I brought biscuit mix back to Vt with me.

Glad to hear you've been enjoying yourself, CI.

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holy crap! We're having a friggin' white out. Flurries in the forecast.... phfffft (not!) The grass is already white and it's starting to stick to the roads. I'm not ready for this!

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73°F this afternoon (=now) here ... the third day in a row ...

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When I took my seven year old daughter to the bus stop earlier this morning, she was disappointed that the snow hadn't arrived already. Yesterday her teacher promised the class that today they would be able to play in the snow. Now it looks like her teacher was correct.

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It looks rather cold for tomorrow as well (and temperatures will become modestly higher over the weekend):

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Boy, am I glad not to be in Chicago. I'm sure the grapes are sour there, too!

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