Schneeballen

DAY 17 of “Chancellor Watch” – One of many opinion polls cite 34% of Germans want a "Chancellor Merkel". Now, that is a really helpful stat, since that was about the same percentage of the voting public who voted for her in the first place.

DAY 18 of “Chancellor Watch” – Germany's two main parties will meet on Thursday to thrash out who will lead a coalition government to break Germany's political deadlock following inconclusive elections. CDU leader Angela Merkel said after exploratory talks on Wednesday, the two sides had found common ground. And the beat goes on…

Besides seeing the inside of a client conference room and hotel room, my tour of Chicago has pretty much encompassed only those things I have seen enroute from O’Hare Airport to the northern suburb of Northfield. Tiring trip, and further complicated by the challenges of getting wireless internet to work in my hotel room and the fact that my EDS business phone is apparently not ”tri-band” compatible.

With that said, access to the blog has been somewhat limited, so uploading of pics has been too time intensive. Trust me…they will be forthcoming. However, let me share one such small anecdote from our recent tour of Bavaria….we discovered the edible treats known as schneeballen.



The best thing I can liken these little tasty morsels to are pieces of pie crust that have been compacted into a ball about the size of a snowball (hence the name). Then, the item is baked and covered in some sort of item such as chocolate, white chocolate, peanut butter, brown sugar, powdered sugar, nuts…. All throughout the German city of Rothenberg, we cwandered past store windows tempting passers-by with a view of these sweets. And yes, they were good, although Buddy did remark that his was a tad bit dry. We just love coming across these little regional foodstuffs….