Hamburg Visit 1

We have been up to Hamburg two weekends in a row to visit Stephan's family. The first weekend we stayed with Stephan's mom. Spargel is white asparagus. It is only available for about 6 weeks each year and is a really big deal here. it is much sweeter than green asparagus but has a hard outer coating that must be peeled before you cook them. Anyway, since it was the end of spargel season, we went to get some and Stephan's mom made us a fabulous dinner with spargel, hollandaise sauce potatoes and ham. Absolutely fabulous. See in the video the machine that they use to peel the spargel. Pretty cool. We went with Stephan's parents to a play group where Max got to test out his running bike on a skateboarders areas. He had no fear what-so-ever! Max's cousins came for the spargel and all the boys got bubbles from Oma. They had a blast!