:) I'll be out of town til Sunday. Hubby is teaching at an AF base, so I figured I drive there and see what nice things I can buy myself  ;D

Have fun y'all and be safe  :)

Hasta la vista, baby!  ;D

Have fun shopping!  :D

Oooo!  Shopping!!

Have a great time!

Have a great time!  I've never seen tschuess written out, I was in Germany in 1991 and it was one of my favorite things to say!

wrote on Aug 19^th, 2005 at 12:42pm:

Have a great time!  I've never seen tschuess written out, I was in Germany in 1991 and it was one of my favorite things to say!

Sakina, actually it is u with "umlaut", the two dots over the u, but because this doesn't exist in english keyboards, you replace the two-dots with the e. And the two ss in the end are actually a letter that looks like the greek "b" letter, but that is widely replaced by the two ss's in the language.
Well, not that you were anxious  to know all this, but languages are my soft point, lol  :-X :-X ::)

Thanks for the language lesson, GL - I've wondered why I sometimes see the "same" word spelled/typed differently.  :D

Have fun, Moonchild! :)

wrote on Aug 19^th, 2005 at 4:57pm:

Well, not that you were anxious  to know all this, but languages are my soft point, lol  :-X :-X ::)

Thanks,  G_L!  I'd forgotten about the alphabetical differences.  I love languages, too.  This year I'm learning Indonesian.  Maybe next year I'll learn Greek!  How many languages do you know?

Have fun, buy lots of hair things and safe home!  

We will be waiting for a full report of purchases.

And have some wonderful food too ...g

Greek_lady: You apparently are quite the linguist!  ;) That explains why sometimes when I see German written, I can't decipher anything, and yet, at other times, I can sort of get a "gist". I, too, wish to know what other tongues you might know.

Moonchild: Have a wonderful time and yes, you must report on all the hair related purchases.

wrote on Aug 19^th, 2005 at 4:57pm:

Sakina, actually it is u with "umlaut", the two dots over the u, but because this doesn't exist in english keyboards, you replace the two-dots with the e. And the two ss in the end are actually a letter that looks like the greek "b" letter, but that is widely replaced by the two ss's in the language. Well, not that you were anxious  to know all this, but languages are my soft point, lol  :-X :-X ::)

*giggles*  Danke, Greek Lady!  I was thinking of the umlaut myself when I saw the topic header...  I used to know the computer ALT language that could make an umlaut but now I can't remember what it was.. hrm... *will have to take more German classes*  Hehehehe.. any excuse! Any excuse...

I looooove language.  German included  ;D

As for Moonchild.... AIR FORCE BASES!  Yip!  I live in the same city as one... three words, girls.

Men... in.... uniform.  :D

'Nuff said.

Whoohoo for military base shopping and no taxes!  I miss the days that I had my own ID card (my dad was in the Navy.)  I can still go in, but someone has to buy my stuff for me.

Cynde

do you all mean this: ü?
I don't know if it will work in all your computers, but mine and probably most of the American computers have a thing called "Character Map" and you can find most characters on there and it tells you what key stroke to put in to make the character. For this one it was ALT and 0252. Hold Alt down while putting in the # and presto, a new thing appears!
Meg

Nothing like legitimate shopping!!  Have fun!!

See you soon! =)

:) Thank you guys  :)

I have to say.....I missed the board.  :'(

BUT I had fun. The only thing hair related I bought was some shampoo and leave-in conditioner. Pretty boring. There was no selection of "good" hair stuff.
The drive up was awful; Autobahn extremely full; lots of construction sites; but - on the bright side: when I got there hubby took me to the Chinese place downtown. Love chinese food. So yummy :) The next evening we went to the country club on post. Fantastic! It's almost like a Gilley's in Texas - I was so surprised. Dance floor just huge! It took almost an entire song to 2step around it. Next day we went to a German restaurant and had some typical German food. Hubby had his Schnitzel with Bratkartoffeln and I had mushroom gravy with a dumpling and salad. It's mushroom season!
Then on Sunday, I went back. Again Autobahn, but this time a lot less traffic. Now Mama is back home  :)

ARRRRRRRgh - I am so hungry now ...g

Mmmmm your trip sounds yummy!  ;D WB

MMMMMMM Mushrooms!! :-*

Welcome back, Moonchild!

The trip was yummy! Hubby will come back tomorrow. Another reason to go out for dinner  ;D This time it will be our favorite little Greek restaurant.

Saturday hubby said he wants to BBQ - don't see that yet since it keeps on raining here.  :(

wrote on Aug 25^th, 2005 at 2:07pm:

Saturday hubby said he wants to BBQ - don't see that yet since it keeps on raining here.  :(

I hope you are not in the areas that are flooding.  The pictures I'm seeing of the floods are astonishing.

wrote on Aug 25^th, 2005 at 2:07pm:

The trip was yummy! Hubby will come back tomorrow. Another reason to go out for dinner  ;D This time it will be our favorite little Greek restaurant. Saturday hubby said he wants to BBQ - don't see that yet since it keeps on raining here.  :(

Oh, what's your favorite Greek food?  We have a little mom and pop Greek restaurant by the house.   I can't get enough of it.  **Poor hubby it's Chuck E Cheese or Greek, he can't get a Mexican restaurant in edgewise**

BB: Luckily we are not in the flooded areas. I feel sorry for those folks. It reminds me of the time we lived in the Fort Knox area......floods there 2 every spring and fall.

ChiliPepper : Since I can never make up my mind what my favorite dish is, I always pick "the Grillteller" on the menu. It's a variety of meat (lamp, pork, liver, the cheese filled little baby-meatloaf) and the veggie-rice. And of course the salad. Love Tsaitziki. Must consume tons. The more garlic the better. But I bet that Greek_Lady is probably smiling now.....Sorry, but I haven't been to Greece (yet) Hubby wants to. He is fascinated with the history.  :)

Yum I go for Pastitsio, Baklava, and anything with fetta cheese.

Moonchild and ChiliPepper you ladies rock! I bow abjectly to your superior culinary understanding powers and your culturally open mind.  8)  ;)In other words: yeahhh for tzatziki and pastitsio and mousaka!!!!  ;D ;DSorry not into sweets so I'll pass baklava. But boy, did you make me hungry a-gain!!!! ouffff  :D

wrote on Aug 25^th, 2005 at 3:03pm:

Oh, what's your favorite Greek food?  We have a little mom and pop Greek restaurant by the house.   I can't get enough of it.  **Poor hubby it's Chuck E Cheese or Greek, he can't get a Mexican restaurant in edgewise**

*giggles*  Ohh ChiliPepper!  I feel so bad because I make sweetie eat Mexican ALL THE TIME.  LOL!  I was originally from wayyyyy up North, so when I moved to the south (Louisiana, cher!) it was so much spicy food that I wasn't sure I could handle it.  

Well.. five years later and now I HAVE TO HAVE IT!!!  Mwahahahahahahahaaa!    ;D

Mmmmmmmmmm, mousaka.  *drools*

wrote on Aug 27^th, 2005 at 4:49pm:

*giggles*  Ohh ChiliPepper!  I feel so bad because I make sweetie eat Mexican ALL THE TIME.  LOL!  I was originally from wayyyyy up North, so when I moved to the south (Louisiana, cher!) it was so much spicy food that I wasn't sure I could handle it.   Well.. five years later and now I HAVE TO HAVE IT!!!  Mwahahahahahahahaaa!    ;D

OOHHH Lousiana!!  My dad is a cajun, grew up on a rice farm outside of Lafayette.  I love to visit the relatives and eat myself sick on gumbo, boudan, and andouie sausage.  But I don't eat crawfish, I have a strick policy against eating things that would eat trash :P