night impressions

These pics are from our kids free days in Bern when we were able to go out.
But now we we back to staying at home. Torsten enjoys to watch the coverage of the german soccer league on TV. It is kind of a thing all men do in Germany. As it is two hours long I have some time to blog some.
We already enjoy the benifits of beeing close to home. Next weekend friends (kind of funny they are German and so far we only have met twice in the States) invited us to a Party in Zuerich (about an hour away) and the grandmas are coming to babysit for the night. I will also go to visit my sister in Munich as she had her baby, a boy named Anton.

family day

On the weekend we went to the mountains for the first time. We are so impressed with the public transportation that we decided to do the whole trip without the car. So we first had to catch a train from Bern to Thun (which is half an hour away and lays on a beatiful lake) then took a bus to Beatenbucht. The women at the ticket counter even broadcasted the bus driver to wait for us. So we arrived in no time at the bottom of the Niederhorn. To get up to 2000m we first took a mountain railway and then a gondola. We had a great time enjoying the view of one of the famoust mountains in Switzerland: Eiger, Moench and Jungfrau.
There were a lot of paragliders and it is amazing how easy the lift up in the sky. The way down was as much fun. We did some hiking and some riding on the trottis......





After a nice dinner in Thun the final blast was that when we catched the train back to Bern there was a play area in the train with a slide and gungle gym.
Now we are already planning what to do next weekend.

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

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