Retro-Post

A few weeks ago after an Illini Game, we got together with some friends and headed to a nearby town to an authentic German Restaurant, Bayern Stube. We've heard about this place for some time now and finally decided to try it out.




About half of our group have been before some only only once and some repeatedly.





Not only is the food authentic German, but once you walk in the door, you feel like you've stepped into another country. This place was all decked out...Wall-to-Wall, even the bathroom signs were German.




Of course, beer steins everywhere. And being German, they serve ale's by the pint. No stinkin' bottle for them. ;)









Having a selective palet, I chose to be a little safe and ordered the Rahmschnitzel, Tender sautéed cutlets of pork topped with a creamy white wine and fresh mushroom sauce,for sides, I chose German fries, Spätzle. What is Spätzle, you ask? German Egg Noodles....what more could a girl ask for?!?



Here's our gang. As you can see, we're pretty orange. It was a great day...an Illini win AND great food & fellowship! We did try the desserts as well. Adam & I shared the German Chocolate Cake..YUM, but I'm told the Strudel, Lemon Cake, are wonderful as well. A great group event!

Keep it Up!

Adam says I need to give an update, so I'm here to say the Illini are now ranked either 19th or 20th depending on the pole. WAY TO GO BOYS!! Now....on to the IL vs MN game on Thursday....FOCUS! I know they can do it! Are you with me? ILL...

We're Ranked!

Scroll down and see....#24! Woo HOO! And tonight at 6pm, the Fighting Illini battle Ohio State! ILL...

Shutterbug

I was lamenting that Adam & I don't get many photo ops together, in fact, I'm usually the one behind the camera, so we decided to let Kabe have a try behind the lens. Not too shabby.



Saturday afternoon was a really fun day. The Illini played in the quarter-final of the Big-Ten Men's BB Tournament against the Minnesota Gopher's. Now to all you non-IL, people or non-fans, this won't mean anything, but this was big. We weren't expected to do anything in this tournament. MN wasn't expected to do anything in this tournament and so far, we had beaten both Penn State and Purdue. Technically, everyone thought this game today should have been Indiana and Purdue - HA! But it wasn't, it was the Illini at Tubby Time (Tubby Smith -- MN head coach) and guess what? WE WON! So guess what? Tomorrow at 2:30pm we play the Wisconsin Badgers in the Final!! Why do we care? Cause we love our team, we love basketball and we'd love a chance to go to the Division 1 NCAA tournament.

We ended our afternoon by a trip to the bowling alley. Adam won both games. He's fierce. Then we went home and watched one of Adam's birthday present videos -- Harry Potter, Year 1. What a great way to spend a Saturday! What did you do?