Luminale Pictures

This past week, Frankfurt was host to a big lighting convention. Since I happen to work right near the Festhalle/Messe (convention center), last week was a zoo for me. I mean it. There were people everywhere. And the main train station was a tiny little version of my personal hell. Pedestrian traffic flow was haphazard and 100% chaos. 

However, there were neat little artsy lighting exhibitions all over the city, so on Wednesday night I met with Shane and Ginny, and we spent 4 hours just running around town, enjoying the sights and of course, some local cuisine. Check out some of my pictures from Luminale 2012 below!

"Hau-der-Tower"

Here is my office building all lit up for Luminale 2012 in Frankfurt this week.

Isn't she pretty?

Cupcakes!

I thought that cupcakes just simply didn't exist here in Europe.

And then this week I found We Love Cupcakes.

Paying a boat load of money for a couple cupcakes makes me nostalgic for my DC days.

And it was definitely worth it.

Highly recommended by yours truly,

and found right around the corner from Schweizer Platz U-Bahn stop in Frankfurt.

Check 'em out.

2 bundles of 100, and 6 bundles of 10

Today is day 260 of living in Germany. Two Hundred and Sixty.

If my life hadn't changed since Kindergarten, I bet today would be some kind of huge celebration. Did you keep track of how many days you'd been in school by bundling straws together? Because my kindergarten class did. It's how I learned to count to ten, and it's how I learned how many times 10 goes into 100. I think those skills have come in pretty handy over the years. School day #100 would always be a huge celebration.

BUT this is not a school year. Alas, it is just another day in the office, "so zu sagen". There will be no party. However, I am officially on the home stretch of my time in Germany and will be stepping foot in the good, ol' USA in no time at all.

Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines... the next 3 months are about to race by.