{"id":129528,"date":"2026-02-07T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T04:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/?p=129528"},"modified":"2026-03-10T09:44:36","modified_gmt":"2026-03-10T13:44:36","slug":"saturday-night-deutschefest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/02\/07\/saturday-night-deutschefest\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday night &#8211; Deutschefest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night &#8211; Deutschefest<\/p>\n<p>Tonight was a big night.. I mean that in two ways.. one that we didn\u2019t know until late in the evening. .. That\u2019s a story I will save until tomorrow<\/p>\n<p>Gabe was determined to get as many days in the great sn<\/p>\n<p>ow as he could so he met up with Devin and Nate (I think) up at Bolton for the whole day<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image1_23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"731\" height=\"975\" \/><\/p>\n<p>while Gabe was out, Diane was super busy making food for tonight. Habre esnted one more gathering with his friends before heasing out to Germany. He[d asked us to have a German fest..<\/p>\n<p>Diane takes challenges lsike that very seriously. .In the course of the day she made home made pretzles (!) .. or Bretzen.. as they are called I Bavaria. She made homemade German noodles (Spaetzle), Sauges and sauer kraut ( Bratwurst mit Kraut) , Bavarian cheese spread (Obazda) .. German red cabbage (Rot Krout) , muled wine (Gl\u00fchwein) and Appel strudel (Apfelstrudel) Diane shows her love for all of us in many ways.. and one of the is in the kitchen<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image2_23.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image3_17.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image4_13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image5_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image6_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\nDiane a, Nova and I did get out for some sunshine and snow<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image7_11.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image8_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image9_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image10_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>People started showng up at 5:30 .<br \/>\nI dressed for the occasion by wearing my ederhosen from when I was `9 and my green white cheked (grunweiskariert) shirt and rd vest I got as a going away present from my team in Munich.. I\u2019m justh happy I can fit into my 19 year old clothes<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image11_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image12_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1431\" height=\"1073\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image13_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image7_12.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image14_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image15_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image16_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image17_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image18_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/>Gabe treates us to some of the Sausage sayings he\u2019s picked up on his look-see visit to W\u00fcrzburg.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image19_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image20_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image21_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image22_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image23_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image24_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image25_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image26_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><\/p>\n<p>and we played a rorally innapropriate word card game wirh Kasey, Brad and Char<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image27_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image28_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image29_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image30_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image31_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image32_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/image33_7.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" \/> it was a great gathering ., lots of friends we hadn\u2019t seen whe Gabe was hoe. And many of them we had seen..<\/p>\n<p>we went to bed so happy<\/p>\n<p>and then.. \u2026..<\/p>\n<p>nite all. Nite sam<br \/>\n-me<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Saturday night &#8211; Deutschefest Tonight was a big night.. I mean that in two ways.. one that we didn\u2019t know until late in the evening. .. That\u2019s a story I will save until tomorrow Gabe was determined to get as many days in the great sn ow as he could so he met up with &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/2026\/02\/07\/saturday-night-deutschefest\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Saturday night &#8211; Deutschefest<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-129528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":130288,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129528\/revisions\/130288"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/johncohn.org\/base\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}