November started with a nerve-wrecking week. It was time for the US elections. Not a lot happened during the week itself except for constantly watching the news and trying to concentrate on work somehow at the same time. Everyone expected there to be no clear results on Tuesday, but even by Friday evening there was […]
Alex getting into serious off-road riding
Celebrating Mark’s birthday In the beginning of the last week of September, Alex finalized a drawing for Mark´s upcoming birthday. The rest of the week was spent with walking George and some delightful cooking. Friday night, Franzi was off to get a pedicure and manicure to start into the weekend. In the meantime Alex got […]
Again time for a new roomie – George the Earl of Bowery
After refilling batteries it was back to work with one major difference. Our household grew again (part time) by one new roomie – our friend Jay´s dog George. Jay had to fly to the UK on short-notice due to his father’s passing, so we took George in. He is a Chihuahua mix and absolutely hilarious. […]
Exploring a new Brooklyn neighborhood – Red Hook
Spontaneous Danish Pub Crawl On the first Tuesday in August, NY was struck by the tropical storm Isaias and the effects were quite visible on the streets with many fallen trees and broken branches. During the week, Franzi got a birthday card for her father’s upcoming birthday ready for its journey to Germany. To end […]
4th of July Getaway into Nature & Franzi’s birthday
Our new week began with some uncommon but pleasant visitors. Our neighbors cats made their way up the fire ladder and we rewarded them with some tuna (which secretively was the attempt to get them into our apartment but that failed). Wednesday was a showcase of “American engineering”. Heavy rainfalls caused a water leak on […]
Silver linings – Phase 1 and 2 of reopening!
On June 1st, the city started to feel even more apocalyptic than it did so far. Almost all stores around us started to close their store fronts with plywood to protect themselves against looting or broken store fronts. This was an unfortunate side effect of the protests. Media coverage was overshadowing the real purpose of […]
A relaxed and uneventful week
After a full weekend this time a rather relaxed and “normal” week. The week began with travel to Madison for Franziska and Alex was lucky enough to stay in New York. On Thursday and Friday, Franzi had a training, which is the first one of a series of training for managers in our firm. This […]
Gentleman’s ride and Alex’s dad in town
After two intense weeks of vacation, we continued full-speed in NY – Monday evening Franzi flew out to Madison, Alex to Chicago. The week was mostly spent with catching up and getting back into the project groove. As a healthy mind could only strive in a healthy body, Franzi and her team did some spinning […]
Long Labor Day Weekend
Finally, our travel schedules aligned and we both got to spend a week in New York. In case you read our blog on a regular basis you will know that this is really rare and exciting for us. Finally, some quality time and a “normal life” during the week. Monday night, Franzi went out for […]
A lucky coincidence at the West Coast
Another week of our travel schedules not tying up. For a change Franzi stayed in New York this time and Alex was the one travelling. He had to go to Santa Clara, California. The lucky coincidence: Alex dad Wolfgang is currently doing a three-month motorcycle trip through Alaska, Canada and the US and he just […]