Fort Lauderdale & 4th of July

Now I have just less than 30 days left in my last semester and it was a roller coaster ride so far. My capstone class is extremely time-consuming and adding to that I have a second class as well. These two are keeping me really busy and with all our daily stuff - work, household, trying to maintain a social life - it got kinda hard.

This and the reason what happened with my dad, JT and I decided that I needed a break. After a long talk we agreed that I would fly down to Fort Lauderdale and see my family. Luckily, we had the day before 4th of July off at work, so I decided to take half day off on Thursday and head to the airport. My flight had an almost 3hr delay, but that gave me some time to study for my mid-term which was due that Sunday. My aunt and uncle picked me up at the airport and it was so nice to finally see them again after over 3 years :-) It felt like we just saw each other yesterday! Back at their house I was able to say hi to my dad's cousin and her family. So glad I made the trip down there. We had a blast. I relaxed at the pool, had german breakfast in America, had some time to study and even do some sightseeing in Fort Lauderdale with the whole family.

In three days my aunt, uncle and my cousin will fly to Maryland and spent one more week with us. I am super excited for them to see our life here ;-)

First Day...

... of my last Semester. I still can't believe it, but I am almost done. 12 more weeks and I have my Master of Science finally done.

But before that I have to finish two more classes - a Management Capstone Class and Direct Marketing. The Capstone class is pretty intimidating, but I will manage this somehow. I have a few things to look forward too.

First our planned Weekend-Trip coming up this Memorial Weekend: we will fly to Connecticut to see my friend B, spent some time, celebrate that there are getting married pretty soon and do some sightseeing stuff. This will be also hubby's first flight and he is pretty excited. I figured that a flight to CT is easier to handle as first flight than an 8-hr-plane-ride to Germany :-D

Aunt, Uncle and Cousin will be arriving a little bit after July 4th for their first visit in Maryland :-) I am pretty excited. For July 4th we will prob head to O.C. and enjoy a nice weekend with our friends.

After finishing my classes my focus will be just on Germany :-) I am so excited. Already in the middle of planning our trip and the Reception for our family. It will be awesome :-) Can't wait! I will start going on Job-Hunting after Germany. I will have more time to focus than ;-)

Thank you Festival & Beach-Day

JT's birthday was on thursday and I took the day off to prep a little surprise for him.

When he came back home from work, I surprised him with a birthday table with some his favorites sweets including a german cake ;-)

We enjoyed a nice afternoon together and than we had to leave for his actual birthday present. I got us tickets for the Thank you Festival at Merriweather Post Pavillion with Krewella, Tiesto and Co. I told him a week before so that he was able to take off early on his birthday and the next day completly. 

It was a great experience and so much fun :-) I am so glad, my hubby liked it and enjoyed his birthday very very much:-)

On friday we or my hubby decided that we need a beach day, so we left early saturday morning to Rehoboth Beach in Deleware. We went to the Deleware Seashore Park :-) Last year around this time we were there with my parents and JT popped the question :-)

I have to admit I was a little bit concerned because just lately we had the very first shark attack in Lewes, DE which is like 20 minutes from the Park we went to. All in all it was a really nice day, but both of us - even with umbrella and sunscreen - got a nice sunburn :-/

After a long day at the beach JT took me out to the restaurant where we celebrated last year our engagement with my parents :-) it was a really great day and weekend!!!