I’m finally adding things over at my tumblr account – christine.tumblr.com. I’ve added all of my feeds for all of my blogs, plus Flickr, plus everything else there. An easy way to follow “all of me” in one place. Feel free to follow along.
After having a nice, relaxing, off-line vacation, I’m feeling all bright & sparkly and focused! Which makes me realize just how rushed and frazzled I was feeling before we left!
One of the things I forgot to mention? One of my prints was selected for the 600 sq. mi. photo show that the Houstonist is putting on! It was such an honor to be selected, and I’m so glad that they have the same sense of humor as I do – I submitted my “Mile 0” photograph, since it is the start of the 600 square miles, after all. I wasn’t sure if they would select it – but they did! Squee!
We’re home. We’re recovering from the easier end of jet lag, but we’re still a bit loopy from it.
I have many, many gigabytes of photos. Somewhere over 20gb, so a lot of photos. (I would guess over 1500, but I haven’t really counted.) I have stories to share. But first, I’m catching up on the wedding photography stuff, and housework. Then I will get to play some tomorrow and over the next few weeks. Today was all about recovery and getting some work out of the way.
One week and one day ago today, I was in Munich, Germany. We had dinner with Elemmaciltur, and it was cold enough outside that I was wearing a coat and jeans. It got down to about 50 degrees that night. Today? Freakin’ Heat Index Warning in Houston with a “feels like” temperature of 105. And Mike wondered why I wanted to change my plane ticket’s return date and stay in Germany longer?
Jason just informed me that Houston sucks because it is hot *and* muggy. I have to say, I agree with him.
I think it is time I remember the memories by editing photos. I don’t think that will help with the heat though. Thank goodness for air conditioning…
We’ve been just kickin’ back and chilling here in Wurzburg for the past few days. The WiFi option (through T-Mobile, for a price again) isn’t strong in our room, so the only option to get online was to come down here to the lobby area and check email, voicemails, etc.
We arrived on … what day is it? Friday? Ok, so we arrived on Wednesday. We skipped Nurnberg, and I decided to just not stress about it. My Mom pointed out that we would miss the apple strudel that she & my Dad decided was the best in Germany, but that is ok. We’ve been hooked on ice cream for the most part while we are here. (Jason did have some apfel strudel mit eis in Bacharach, but since then he has passed it up for Schoko Minz gelato.) We have just taken it nice and slow – we went to tour the Prince-Bishop’s Palace (VERY cool), walked around the city, windowshopped, admired the fortress, hung out on the bridge, ate good food … and just had a nice time. Mike found something he has wanted for years, but I’ll leave him to tell that story over on his blog. (It involves the Matrix, in case you wondered.)
Tonight is our last night here, and tomorrow we’re off for Rothenburg for two nights, and then we’ll return to Koln to drop off the car and go to Karen’s house for a night before we head to the airport in Amsterdam and return home. I’ve already been plotting ways to stay in Germany longer, but I don’t think Mike is going for it!
I downloaded all the photos to the backup drive – and left the cables in the car when we parked it. Doh. So no photos, again. Just wanted to check in though – we are in Munich, where we stayed last night after spending the day at the Salt Mine in Berchtesgaden, Germany. Who ever knew that salt mining was so interesting? (Seriously, it is.) It was a lovely, brisk 60 degrees or so last night in Munich, where we had one last dinner with Victor before we parted. *sigh* How I love the cool summer air.
Today we are supposed to be bound for Nurnberg, but that might change within the next hour or so and we might spend a full THREE days in Wurzburg instead. Our longest stay of any on our trip! I think we’re all ready to slow down a bit.
Mike needs the computer to make a call for work (yeah, Vonage!) and then we’re off to find an elusive pair of Birkenstocks for me before we hit the road again. Kisses to everyone, see you soon!