Wild animals and good baby

Next we drove east and increased our altitute a lot... 
on the way some wild animals we saw:
Sophia was so good the whole day even though we were in the car almost all day!
A baby black bear:
The 'Fejes' at the top of the world:
what a great view... but it was cold *bbbrrrr*



Oh, another picture of us :)

Mammoth Hot Springs

On Monday morning we met again at Doug and Dana's place and started the day with another delicous breakfast done by Doug and Dana this time ;)... and then we loaded up the car and made our way to the Yellowstone Park. 

The first stop was the Mammoth Hot Springs with a little walk up the hill... Sophia did it right, she looked totally cool and didn't had to walk at all *lol*... she enjoyed being carried by her daddy:
Enjoy the pics... there is not much to say but see:

Vacation time with family

We're back... yes, we were gone. Maybe you noticed ;). Long time no posting but now I have soooo many pictures... I really have to be picky which ones I should post or it'll turn out to be a few pages long of pictures from our vacation... as you can tell already by those pics, we were in Montana spending some time with Doug, Dana and Sophia:We flew in on FR and settled down in a hotel in Bozeman for the first night. On Saturday after a very delicious breakfast (again... we ate way too much) we drove over to Livingston and spent the rest of the day with Doug and Dana. 

Since we stayed in Livingston for the next night we started the Sunday very easy arranging for another hotel since the one we had chosen for most of the week wasn't such a burner! Luckily Frank did all the research and arranging of another hotel and I was lazy turning around another time in bed :). What a great life :)... 

After everything was arranged we checked out and had a very delicious breakfast done by Doug. Chatted a little bit with family and took it easy for the rest of the day. 

At night we had a very nice dinner in a mexican restaurant and afterwards Dana and Sophia went swimming in the hotel pool... Sophia had a blast:

German BBQ and the Girls

It really was time to meet with my German friends again... so we had a German BBQ and Karin and Jen joined us as well. Karin comes originally from Stuttgart and Steph met her at the barn as well as Jen.

Here we have Sandra, Ravyn and Jen:  Karin and Sandra in a discussion:
Steph our BBQ chef: 
I loved Steph's flowers outside...
Sandra did most of the preparation like: 'eingelegtes Fleisch', Tzatziki, Kaeuterbutter, Schaschlik spiesse (excuse my German... I know most of it is spelled wrong, i'm too lazy now to look it up), Baguette Brot, Mais Kolben, Folienkartoffeln and for desert banana 'grilled' and lazed with Bailys :)... BOAH... das war ein LECKERES BBQ! 
Sandra introduced Jen right away into 'Alsterwasser' (half beer/ half sprite). We had a great time but a tough time with the moskitos... we were spaying us with tons of 'anti moskito stuff' but Jen and I got bit a lot :( so we had to go inside after a while.

It was a great time and we're looking into doing a 'German cooking' night so we won't forget the German taste ;)

Chinatown with Freda

Yesterday I finally met Freda again after over half a year! Just very busy... and since DownTown is always a 'day trip' to me... only possible on the weekends... but we made it and met downtown to go together to Chinatown and have a nice lunch. 

When we were back on the train and around other americans again I realized that I just thought I made a trip to China because in chinatown there are mostly chinese people ;). It's funny how the brain and eyes can play with you.Some pics from Chinatown:
We had a very delicous lunch... 

Me next to my chinese sign, the rooster... but what was said on the plate about my 'personality' didn't all match up to me I have to say! But most of it ;)
Freda has the 'pig' as her chinese sign
It was nice being down town again... and it was VERY hot... WOW... that was a 'pool day' rather than walking around down town ;). It was fun and very nice meeting Freda again. It is very interesting meeting people from other countries and talk about the different cultures. 

Flood...

Today was a crazy day... first of all I think almost everybody woke up by the thunder that was going nuts in the morning. During the morning it started to rain and just didn't stop but was getting heavier and heavier. There was just too much water coming down that it couldn't go away quick enough and decided to come back up again and leave lakes in our Warehouse. So the Warehouse guys needed to move the freight asap from the 'wet' area and the rest was trying to get the water out of the Warehouse somehow (it was kind of fun doing 'active' work instead of sitting in front of the computer). Since another storm was going to come in soon and our parking lot looked already like a little lake. Management decided to send us home... that was around 11 AM.
This afternoon I got some pictures from a few hours later, around 3-4 PM... this is the street our building is 'sitting' on. You cannot even 'see' the street anymore: These are the sea freight docks...

This is the 'drive in' to the Warehouse ;)

and here a closer look to the big lake... to the right would be the rest of the docks (airfreight):The main entrance to the office... this lake is supposed to be our parking lot!!! Keep in mind that in the middle it's deeper...And this was the other side of our 'street'... you can see... water... water... water... the area was totally flooded.

Where I live everything was fine :). So I had no trouble at all driving around. Unfortunatelly Sandra couldn't leave her home because she's living in that flood area. Our movie/ pedicure and BBQ preparation night totally fell into the water :(...

So I hope all is ok with our building and the water is going away quickly and is not destroying anything!!! At night another big storm came in but i decided to go to the movies alone so I kind of got around that one ;). Tomorrow it should be a very nice day :) YEAH... Look forward to the girls night, haven't seen the girls in weeks! This time the weather shouldn't screw it up, please ;).

Happy Birthday JELA...

Look, who is smiling? ;) the Birthday Girl JELA:
Wish you the best to your 23rd birthday. Enjoy your day and celebrate the way you'd like to :)