tailgating

Our last tailgating in Athens, its blackout and man those fans are disciplined everyone is wearing black....I have the four girls with me this is kasey lucy Evelyn-vivan paula

movers are here

the movers are in the house...this makes it final now...no more sleeping in 407 Greenwood Dr...thanks to our friends Dawn, David and Heidi and Michael we still have a place to stay and we are very grateful for that...on Saturday is Gameday in Athens, for all the ignorant Europeans. The Bulldogs are playing Alabama and ESPN is in town, we are expecting about 120 thousand fans...yes this is non professional Collage Football.....go DAWGS....

four days to go....

Stress is building...

I guess it is getting close, stress is building up. So far we have been handling this very well, especially the girls are doing great. Kim and I had lunch at Cali'N Titos our favorite cuban restaurant in town, I will miss the fish tacos and the outside seating. Especially in November. And at last I got my Cali 'N Titos T-shirt.....which reminds me I still need to get the Terrapin shirts...oh how I will miss the american microbrews....yes beer is actually exceptional here...by now there are about 1400 microbreweries in the US and one of the best ones in Athens, Terrapin really rocks ...did a tour the other day..(-;...anyhow yet another night writing grant and looking forward to Europe...I was listening to some religious radio station (they are always so funny) on my way back to work tonight and could barely make it out of the car because I had to laugh so hard.  It was this ultra conservative preacher talking about how evolution is the single biggest scam without any scientific evidence and that of course creationism is the only way to explain life...this country is doomed....Europe we are coming...

6 days to go...

4 more days at the UGA

This was the beginning of my last week at UGA. Kim and I walked the Kids to school and then I went to work. It was an o.k. day but it is hard to motivate and I feel sometimes bad because I am not really productive any more yet I am still in Steves lab and he pays me...I do my best and try not to waste too much time. Dinner was at Justins and Rachels tonight, yummy.... Lucy and Paula were a little crazy but actually quite well behaved for a late evening dinner. I am so tired today and might not make it long tonight. Kim got rid of all our yard sale stuff today, all that is left now will either go with us on the plane or into the container. I just realize how good Lucy and Paula can read already. It is quite amazing to see that they can take a book and start reading in it...

7 more days

Blog from our iPod

the sunday after...

After the yard sale we decided to go to the lake for some swimming, maybe our last time at Sandy Creek Park. The weather was perfect Lucy and Paula enjoyed playing in the water and Kim and I simply lay in the sand and watched the two having a good time...Sunday we went to a little cafe were we met friends and had a long breakfast. Torsten is now back in the lab and KLP are celebrating Evans 3rd or 4th ? birthday....

8 days to go...

yard sale , everything has to go....

These are our brownie girls

believe it or not we sold the trampoline....

it is a perfect day for a yard sale 25C and sunny...

this was at 7:30 am quite a few people already....

oh I am so tired after selling all the brownies...

our big day, the yard sale....see for yourself. Paula Lucy and their friends Vivian and Kacy selling brownies, they probably make just as much as we do... everybody is having a great time. We actually do sell most of our stuff it is amazing..one mans trash is another mans gold..Yesterday we had a great potluck dinner with most of our friends here some stuff already sold there...and two days ago I had the honor to go out with the neighborhood board we did a brewery tour and ended up drinking quite a few beer...well it was a lot of fun and I will miss those guys...anyhow the date is getting ever closer and now the house is definitively empty no more chairs no more patio table microwave etc...

I must compliment Kim she did a great job in advertizing and organizing all this, it has been a great success so far...its 12 noon now and we might sell stuff till about 3 pm then we go to the lake for some swimming....

9 days to go....

oho Kim is now unstoppable..she sells the stuff we don't want to move like hot cakes...most of our house looks like aeh..empty...I hope we will still have chairs to sit on by the weekend...we might have to go to waffle house for breakfast next week...(-;

But I must say it feels good and if I could only get my grant moving as quickly as Kim cleans out the house I would be a very happy man...Lucy is much better today and hand in hand Lucy and Paula walked to school today and could not stop talking on the way...they are happy campers it seems...

Thanks Thilo we are also looking forward to seeing you guys very soon...

12 days and counting

ein paar bilder

The river in Bern, the Aare....and yes you can swim around Bern...

The Bundeshaus....

here some pictures of our future home...the city of Bern in Switzerland...see you soon for skiing...

up date

Fuer alle die es noch nicht wissen, wir kehren nach fast exact 5 Jahren nach Europa zurueck. Fuer amerikanische Distanzverhaeltnisse sind wir ganz in der Naehe, naemlich in Bern, Schweiz. Es bleibt mal wieder spannend fuer uns, mal sehen was uns die schweizer Kultur ausser Schnee und Schokolade bringen wird. Wir freuen uns auf jedem Fall wieder die Moeglichkeit zu haben unkompliziert fuer ein Woe jemanden besuchen zu koennen. Wir werden versuchen eine Wohnung mit Gaestezimmer zu finden und freuen uns schon auf Besuch von Euch. Bis bald Kim

Unser erster blog

Noch 13 Tage dann geht es zurueck nach Europa genauer nach Bern in die Schweiz, ich glaube so langsam ist die volle Nervositaet zu spueren. Lucy hat sich gleich mal mit einer Ohrenentzuendung ins Bett verabschiedet. Paula hat heute morgen auf dem Weg zur Schule geplappert wie ein Wasserfall...naja ist ja auch keinem zu verdenken...die ersten Moebel sind schon verkauft, gestern hat jemand unsere alte Wickelkomode mitgenommen...Am Freitag und Samstag machen wir dann unseren Yardsale...Ich bin voellig damit beschaeftigt meinen ersten Grant fuer Bern fertig zu bekommen und dann sind da ja noch unzaehlige Kleinigkeiten die erledigt werden muessen...