What's For Dinner #118 - the Pollen Is Covering Everything! Edition - May 2025

As I’d subtly hinted at in earlier posts :smile:, our trip to Berlin was not exactly The Smoothest in recent memory. It started off with a 2-hour delay on the runway in EWR due to shit weather (after a 4 hour drive) that had us miss our connection in CPH to Berlin. The only way we could get to Berlin the same day was thru London (!). When we finally got there and passed through customs I was suddenly and very painfully aware that I’d usually call or text my mom that we landed safely… which is now no longer possible. So, I wasn’t in best form when we retrieved our luggage only to discover my suitcase wasn’t there. Yeah, NGL I cried.

My PIC’s suitcase, checked in at the same airport at the same time with the very same destination somehow made it, yet mine had not. It boggled the mind, and I was kind of done with the day.

As I’m standing in line waiting to talk to someone at the Magic Baggage Retrieval counter, quietly crying & looking around…… whattt do I see but a bag that looks strikingly like mine (nothing fancy – a big black hard shell with wheels) sitting on the Cologne/Bonn belt all by itself? It turns out to be mine. WTAF? :exploding_head:

We finally made it safe & sound to the pad by 8:30pm, a mere 12 hours later than expected. Hot water seems spotty, which we found out after grabbing a traditional Flammkuchen for my PIC

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and a cream of asparagus soup with grilled shrimp for me

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— tis the season, after all :wink: at a restaurant across the street from us. A few beers, and we already felt much better.

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In the big scheme of things, this was just a bumpier start to our surely wonderful summer, and at least we’re in it together. Many good meals and days to come, no doubt.

A few pics of the very Berlin entrance of our apartment building :smiling_face_with_three_hearts:

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