Start into Nov

Nothing better than a burger night in :). Every now and then we get to make burger with fries but it just tastes so much better when Frank makes them on the grill however lately I can't convince him to stand outside for too long since the temperatures dropped quite a bit and tomorrow they are actually going to drop a lot so we'll have around freezing temps for the next week :(. But that's ok... I better get my christmas decoration up before it's getting too cold. I'm excited that I get to decorate this year again since last year we didn't do any decorations since we spent most of our christmas time in Germany. But on the other hand it makes me really sad that I'm not in Germany soon... my sisters due date for her first baby is coming closer and the closer it comes the more sad it makes me that I cannot share this special moment with her in Germany. I'm so excited for her and can't wait for the little baby girls arrival and another niece in our family :).

Grace's Birthday Party was a blast.

Yesterday I went to the Henry Ford Museum with Micha and his kids and we had a really good time doing a scavenger hunt and all the other fun things with Macy's 2nd Monday. They do special things for the little ones which makes it always a lot of fun to go those days besides that it's always a joy going to the Henry Ford Museum :)

Roary, the Detroit Lions Mascot even visited

Swim Competition

WED night the last few rounds of swim competition started for the girls team... practice and competitions and all of that is over now... it'll be a very weird transition but Jenny signed up already for three different clubs she joins after school so we might be able to spend a little bit more time with her now that all the time consuming swimming comes to an end ;).

Here some pics from the wild swim competition with five different schools who qualified: 

Ulla ready to start her swim:

 Ulla in action

Ulla is no. 8 on the 100 yard freestyle with best time from all of those she swam with :)... YEAH

Jenny ready to dive in. She's the one with the orange cap second to right:

Here her left elbow is pointing up....

Here the one with the arm out of the water... I'm not really good taking pics from the girls while in action but I tried ;)

no. 5 on the list she did very good time :)

And... guess what she does when she doesn't swim? Taking Selfies :)... hihihi

My little company during the swim meet:

WED morning Jenny surprised me with some flowers and a wonderful card. It's already her 'half time' milestone. End of January she already has to go back home... very sad... we really enjoy our family of 5 :)

Port Huron at Lake Huron

On TUE was election day and Jenny's school needed to be used for the polls so she and Ulla had a day off and we could adventure out all day which was great. We targeted Port Huron which is about 1.5 hrs away from us and I've never been there. I wanted to go somewhere which would be new for me too ;). So I googled a couple of landmarks we needed to see and we saw only half of what was on my list since the opening hours where more likely on the weekend due to the little traffic during the week in the off season but we still saw a lot and had a great time. THAT beach was just amazing... I could go there every day in the summer just chilling on that wonderful beach with the blue water... it was breath taking

 

On the other side of the river is Canada ;)

Lunch Break :)