Deboned!: July 2006

Uncle Walters 80th Birthday

I know, I know - I promised to do this earlier, but it was really busy the last days - so I hope my funny General Rotlicht will forgive me (that really cracked me up!) ;-)

Here we go - Roadtrip with MOTH to Wuppertal - unfortunatley we got stucked in a traffic jam right after Hamburg. We picked up a hitchhiker ;-)

Uncle Walter was very happy to see us

The birthday party took place at the Dorrenberg Hof - we had been there for aunt Margot 85th birthday too. Of course aunt Margot was there too ;-)

also aunt Waltraud who had some serious words with somebody ;-)

Uncle Walter's choir was there

Here aunt Margot, aunt Waltraud and Heidi. Also watch the waiter and his cool shirt - Matt and Jim want to have a Dorrenberger Hof Shirt - hahaha!

Tris wrote a wonderful guitar solo and played it for Opa. It is gorgeous and it is amazing how good he is and how talented!

Uncle Walter aka Opa was very proud of Tris

And of course he needed a typical German present which says "Grandpa is cream of the crop"

aunt Margot changed later and did a Marlene Dietrich kind of act which was stunning and wonderful

And later Tris made us learn that some certain person (the main person of a song) is still alive - thanks champ ;-)

After the party we brought the kiddos to the hotel and Heidi, Matt, Jim and I had a nice beer to end the evening.

The next day was a bit rushed, we went with aunt Margot to the Wuppertaler Brauhaus for lunch, rated two beers and went home to Hamburg

It was a great trip to Wuppertal and we loved seeing you all. We love you!

MOTH in Hamburg ;-)

It is about time to update again - we have plenty of photos to share from Matt, Olivia, Tristan and Heidi - in short MOTH - in Hamburg. It was such a wonderful time and we really enjoyed having you champs over. So before you and Uncle Walter get the CD I will post some photos here.

Saturday evening when MOTH came we went to a pizzeria and sat outside to eat. Tris and Olivia were following the soccer game Germany vs. Portugal. They cheered when a T O R was counting for Germany ;-) It was fun for us and for the other people in the restaurant.

Tris and Olivia watching Germany vs. Portugal

Later we went up onto our roof to look at the blue goals that were set on lot's of tall buildings during the Worldcup - the were illuminated and a lasershow going on:

MOTH on our terrace looking at the blue goals laser show

Sunday we went to the harbour. We were on the old sailor ship Rickmer Rickmers and watched a very very long movie ;-)

We had some music sessions on the roof:

and in the living room:

That's it for today - continues tomorrow with Uncle Walters Birtday Party!

And one year older

Ok - so I had my birthday ;-) An awesome day. Lot's of calls - my favorite one Bill and Karen on the answering machine, I tell you, this one will never get erased! A suprise visit from my other boss Frank in the office - that was soooo wonderful! And a nice evening with friends. We went to the Tapas Bar in our street and sat outside till midnight - here are some pictures:

Not the best photo - but what the heck ;-)

Helga and Arne

Christian and Antje

Sandra and Circe managed to avoid the camera ;-)

I got some cool presents including a book from Circe which I'm looking very forward to and a wonderful self felted bag by Helga. Thanks so much Helga - I just love it!