Practical Deutsch

This past weekend while we were in Germany, I took this picture of Bernkastel-Keus. We were on a short Mosel River cruise & admiring scenery that only God & the Germans could produce. Who needs postcards, right?

Ok, fine, Man & I were appreciating the scenery, Laze-E was munching on a pretzel & MiniMe was wiggle-worming around in her seat for no good reason & managed to spill her orange juice all over the table.

I know, I know. Other people sipped the local wines, enjoyed the view and whispered sweet-nothings in their lover's ears. Sans kinder.

I dodged orange juice.

Since Man was sitting on the end of the table & I asked him pretty-please to find me something to clean up the spilled OJ.

Admittedly, his German is usually way better than mine. The reason for this being that he actually took real German language courses in college while I opted for the learn-my-car, real-life trial-and-error education. So I was quite surprised when Man turned around and asked me in all seriousness what he needed to ask for.

Uh, duh, we needed either several Servietten or a Lappen.

On a mission and armed with exciting, & oh-so-useful, HausFrau vocabulary, he went in search of either a handful of napkins or a really absorbent dishtowel. Just a short time later, he bee-bopped back to our table with a Lappen & was über-impressed with his new found language skills.

He wondered out loud how his Frau had acquired such useful knowledge.

Uh, duh, 2 kids and 5 ½ years in Germany. You think I've dealt with a spill or three along the way?