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 […]
A trip to the northern East Coast – Acadia National Park
First stop – Cold Spring for Labor Day September started off with something to look forward to: a small vacation! After a four-day work week, we were off to Cold Spring for a Labor Day weekend with a couple of friends (all of which tested COVID negative before getting together). It was more of a […]
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 […]
Relax & unwind in paradise Costa Rica (2/2)
Monteverde Cloud Forrest Saturday – one week of vacation already passed, but it has been a great journey so far! We left the farm early in the morning to visit the Monteverde Cloud Forest. The Biological preserve is the first private area for the conservation of wildlife founded in Costa Rica in 1972. The preserve […]
Well deserved vacation in beautiful Costa Rica (1/2)
One more week of work before our vacation! Franzi stayed in New York to wrap up her project, Alex had to fly to South Carolina for one day. He was asked to join a workshop for an automotive Tier 1 supplier. Other than that, throughout the week, we prepared everything for our upcoming trip to […]
The benefits of our job – (sometimes) nice places & great colleagues
Another week, another cross-country flight – back to California for Franziska. Meanwhile Alex was in Chicago, which was much colder. During the week, Franzi and her colleague built in a quick trip to the beach, which was absolutely beautiful, relaxing and a good way to the mind off work. Back in New York, both of […]
Full program for Christmas far from our families
One more day until Christmas! We decided to stay in New York over the holidays instead of going home – this was definitely a tough decision and both of us were a little nervous about spending Christmas without family in a foreign country. However, we were set on making the upcoming days as festive as […]
Automotive Team Event in SC and exploring Central Park
On Monday Franzi flew to Madison and Alex headed to Savannah. Business as usual for Franzi, the first Team Event for Alex. The various Practices of our Company once in a while organize off-sites where consultants assigned to a certain practice (industry or service group) get together to discuss industry trends, perspectives, talk strategy and […]
Finally visiting the Hamptons – it only took Nicola from Germany to visit
After a relaxing weekend, we headed into the next week full of energy. Franzi traveled to Madison again, Alex headed to Washington by train. Travelling by train is a fairly comfortable method of travel but pretty expensive, even compared to the Deutsche Bahn. Starting comparisons with Deutsche Bahn – the train left and arrived punctual […]
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 […]