Sunday, October 25, 2009

Oktoberfest 2009


While my husband has had the pleasure and honor of attending THE Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany...the Tulsa Oktoberfest was no disappointment. Laden with all traditional food, beverage, music, and dance! While I thoroughly enjoy both food and beverage, the highlight was surely the traditional music and dance. I don't believe I can count on my 20 digits alone how many times we did the Chicken Dance. While it was a forbidden "DON'T PLAY" for our wedding DJ, I sure had fun doing it last night with friends and thousands of Tulsans.


Here are some low-quality pictures. Apologies, my camera battery died, so I had to take them with my phone.


 
 Pitchers in the air!


 
Awesome German Band playing traditional German music


Sadly, however, husband informed us that at THE Oktoberfest music is not typically played. Whereas Tulsa's Oktoberfest had lots of tents, of varying sizes, playing a variety of music. Our tent we believed to be the largest and held SEVERAL thousand dancing fools by the time we left.


The food and drink were wonderful as well, but my dietitian tummy was upset after consuming so much FAT last night. I tried the funnel cake and brat with kraut. While it was delicious, it did not agree with me!!


Between the 5 of us we were able to try several traditional beers, too. On tap they had Spaten Oktoberfest, Samuel Adams Oktoberfest (probably not so traditional), Franziskaner, Spaten Pils, Spaten Premium, Spaten Optimator, and Oktoberfest Lager. Mmmm!


Hockey game tonight - excited!


Yesterday ended up like this...


Breakfast:
1 cup oatmeal, prepared (2 carbs)
1 cup skim milk (1 carb)
2 Tbsp pumpkin butter (1 carb)
1/2 ounce pecans (0 carbs)
     Total: 4 carbs


Lunch:
1 1/2 cups chili (1 carb)
6 wheat crackers (1 carb)
8 ounces V9 Fushion Light (1 carb)
     Total: 3 carbs


Snack:
2% cheese stick (0 carbs)


Dinner:
1/3 small funnel cake (2 carbs)
1/2 bratwurst with saurkraut (1 carb)
3 German beers (2 carbs)
     Total: 5 carbs - over!


Snack:
1/2 cup shredded wheat (1 carb)
1/2 cup skim milk (1/2 carb)
     Total: 1 1/2 carbs

Thoughts on education.

Today, I started reading the book "Fundamentals of Christian Education" by Ellen G. White with my worship (which I am trying to be better about). Since I started this new school job and would eventually like to have children, I thought it would be good reading material for me to ingest. I wanted to share a couple paragraphs with you this morning that really showed me what is going on in our world today through the government education system.

Pg. 16 "A child may be so trained as to have, like the beast, no will of his own. Even his individuality may to merged into the one who superintends his training; his will, to all intents and purposes, is subject to the will of the teacher. Children who are thus educated will ever be deficient in moral energy and individual responsibility." Pg. 17 " The severe training of youth, without properly directing them to think and act for themselves as their own capacity and turn of mind will allow, that by this means they may have growth of thought, feelings of self-respect, and confidence in their own ability to perform, will ever produce a class who are weak in mental and moral power. And when they stand in the world to act for themselves, they will reveal the fact that they are trained, like the animals, and not educated. Their wills, instead of being guided, were forced into subjection by harsh discipline of parents and teachers." (3rd paragraph, pg 17) " When these youth are no longer under their parents and teachers, and are compelled to think and act for themselves, they are almost sure to take a wrong course, and yield to the power of temptation."

Wow, doesn't that paint of picture of how our society as a whole is acting today? Those of us with children or in the educational field have such a huge and solemn responsibility to God and to these children to guide them, instead of force them into what is right.

'it'



should i...



KILL 'it'.

or

make it PRIVATE,
means, it's only between me, and 'it'

or

just LEAVE 'it'
for a while.








it
= bloggie.