What's up!

It’s once again been a long time since a post, especially for me. I don’t know how it seems like we got busier, but I think about posting. The last few weeks we haven’t gone anywhere far, but we’ve been getting a lot done. I’ve been going to the arts and crafts shop a few Saturdays to make frames for our new prints and paintings we bought on our ventures. Nate has been busy making posters out of older pictures he had, with a few trips in there to get new towns and vantage points. Lots of new posters to check out on the website. We counted about 104 last night!

We have a fun weekend planned for an extended Memorial weekend. Chamonix, France. I think most of you saw some pictures from last time, but we are really looking forward to this trip. We’ve been thinking about all the places we want to go back to and places we can get other good pictures. Hoping for some sunshine and pretty mountains scenes. Osu doesn’t know yet, but he’ll be excited to go too.

In other news, Nashville is not happening anymore for work. We had planned to have our wedding reception after our work conference in Nashville, but Nashville flooded. So, we are still eagerly waiting for the decision if Chicago will be happening August 23-27th. We are very hopeful, as we need these hours of flying to extend our trip to see everyone. We are supposed to know this week, but no news yet.

In other more fun news, I’m making a GIANT cake for our work SRP Conference here in Germany. It needs to feed 120 people, so it’s either 8- 8x8 cakes or 8- 10x10 cakes. They will be two layers with the logo drawn in the middle and other fun stuff around the sides. I made a tester for work this week, and it turned out really well…especially for 10 pm. Maybe I can get Nate to upload the picture for me too, the small one for now. The real test will be the last week of June when I put it together and move it from our house to Graf, a lovely hour plus ride.

I’d like to say my garden is going well, but it’s hard to tell. We’ve been having lots of rain and little sun. The strawberries are getting flowers, but the pepper and tomato plants haven’t done much. It hasn’t frozen, just lots of rain. I can’t tell much what the blueberry bushes are doing, cuz I’ve never had those before, but they don’t seem to be growing much above the ground. Hope I didn’t plant stuff too early, last year we missed the whole planting time.

One more thing before I go… We’ll have Jef out here starting June 21st. We’re really excited to have him here and do some traveling; Amsterdam for the 4th of July is already waiting for us.

Vienna, Austria

Well, once again we've been lagging behind on keeping this blog updated.  Both of us have been pretty busy with other things and just haven't had the time.  So, here's a quick recap of our trip to Vienna:

Day 1:  We drove.  It was kind of a boring and flat landscape - the non-mountainous part of Austria.  We were pleasantly surprised by our apartment room.  Very nice and spacious.  Decent location.  We spent the rest of that day checking out the old part of Vienna.  Even took a horse and buggy ride!

         

Day 2:  Spent most of the day exploring the old part of Vienna some more.  It's a big area with a lot to see.  We also went to Prater Park and enjoyed the amusement park.  The weather turned beautiful that afternoon.  Dawn did a bit of shopping, I did a bit of sitting outside in the sun.  It was nice.  That evening, we went and saw Nada Surf in concert.  Very good show and they sounded great.

         

Day 3:  We caught the boat early for Bratislava, Slovakia and had a great hour + long ride down the Danube.  We spent that day exploring the city, a very beautiful city too, and really enjoyed our time there.  The weather was once again spectacular.  Oh, and we found an AWESOME mexican restaurant, the best we've found in Europe, in Bratislava of all places.  The boat ride back was great and we spent a lot of time out on the deck taking in the scenery.  We spent the evening wandering around Vienna some more.  A great day.

                   

                   

Day 4:  All of the walking and travel from the previous days really did my gout and my back in.  We ended up enjoying a nice breakfast at our hotel and then packing up and heading out early.  The drive back was pleasant enough and we got home at an early hour which was nice. 

Overall, this was a great trip.  Vienna and Bratislava are great cities and I'd recommend seeing them if you're ever in the area.  Now, we want to explore a bit more to the east and are checking in to Budapest, Hungary for a future trip.

Many more pictures from the trip can be found on my Flickr Site.  Below are a couple of posters I made from the photos I took.  The original photo is on the left and the poster on the right.

         

Many more new posters can be found on Taku Photography and Posters