It's Girl Scout Cookie time and yes, we can get them here. As many boxes as we want. With so many Americans in Frankfurt and two large international schools in the area, we had no trouble buying some Thin Mints, Tagalongs and Samoas.
The youth group at our church held a fund raiser today where they sold submarine sandwiches with sodas and chips. Not just any soda and chips. Rootbeer and Frito-Lay chips (Doritos, Fritos, etc.) You can probably surmise by the fact that I did an entry on this that we cannot find rootbeer, Doritos nor Fritos at the stores here. You would be right. Not even anything resembling rootbeer, Doritos and Fritos. This simple dinner was a big deal for us and thoroughly enjoyed by all. My guess is that someone from the youth group bought the drinks and snacks at one of the U.S. Commissaries in the area. Non-military and non-government Americans are not allowed to shop there. It is not unheard of for people to sneak in friends (I have been twice), but they are technically forbidden from doing so.
By the way, the youth group was raising money for its trip to Romania where they will build a playground and assist elderly residents with home repairs, and another trip to the Kalahari Desert in South Africa where they will tutor poor children who don't have the money to attend school.
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