Burger Time

I have been remiss in my posts. Two very important burger episodes have taken place over the past couple of weeks and I have failed in my duties to keep you informed.

Two weekends ago (Saturday Feb 20) Kim and Izzi made yet another pilgrimage to Ikea. Xavier and I headed downtown Bern to meet Colin and Noah and watch the Fasnacht parade. The parade was ok, nothing too exciting but it was night to hang out the the boy and not be at Ikea yet again.

After the parade, we headed back to the train station. Xavier needed a snack and had his heart set on the french fry store. We get up to the counter and the advertised special is a burger with fries. Obviously we had no choice left in the decision. We placed our order and when it arrived we were a bit suprised to find two smallish beef patties on the plate sans bun. Suprisingly, the burger was quite tasty, in fact in was good enough that the next day after skiing at the Gurten, Xavier ordered the same thing.

The next burger was more traditional. The Marines from the embassy occasionally have parties where they will invite the expat community to join. They have a big american style spread with US beer and beverages for sale. They do this to raise money to help sponser their annual Marine Ball.

After wandering around the city a bit, we navigated to the Marine house with the help of Kim's swanky phone. Her phone has google maps and does location triangulation so we typed in the address, found a near by train and wandered about. Kind of felt like geocaching. the spread was pretty impressive, US ketchup, Wonder Bread buns and Kraft cheese slices and various other US goodies across the table. I fixed up plates for the kids as they sat in front of the TV and watched Aliens in the Attic. So the current ranking is:
3) Chocolate Burger
2) Burger sans bun from french fry store
1) Marine Burger