Otto had his first ride in a merry-go-round ... and he enjoyed it!
Well it's this time of the year again. As the Weinheim xmas market is only open on weekends, we took the opportunity and planned to have one Gluehwein. We met a nice couple there (he's from Texas, she's German), so we ended up with three each!
On a visit to Stuttgart Aiden had his first Spätzle (Swabian pasta) ... he ate an amazing bowl full ...
Although busy in getting prepared for her new job, we had time to have a nice birthday celebration at our favourite Italian Restaurant in Weinheim, Da Peppino ... Carola and Santino were there too ...
Claudia finished her studies of Economics now with a fantastic result. So that Saturday the official graduation took place in Mannheim ... here the proud old people with her ...
... and her getting the master degree from the dean ... at least we're thinking it's the master degree ... maybe it was just an information sheet how many exams she failed ;-) ... just kidding!
As Carola's company ZF celebrated their 100th anniversary, we visited her for the family day there ... very interesting, heaps of people ...
To cover for the fuel costs ;-) she had to invite us for dinner in that really good steakhouse ...
btw. one of the few pictures, where Thomas' halo can be seen ;-)
Saturday evening we learned to know Richard, Carola's boyfriend from Zurich. Sunday we had breakfast together, walked along Lake Constance's shore, where we had another coffee ...
btw. the white line behind Thomas is NOT a fart, it's a fountain in the lake ;-)
Thomas' cousin Markus and his partner Andrea came by for a weekend ... Unfortunately it was 39° this day, so even driving in the convertible was pretty hot ...
... here Cynthia, Andrea and Markus