Nothing comes as planned...

As the title says... nothing comes as planned... I received a call from my mom beginning of June and this was a call I was dreading the most... My father had a heart attack - one day before his birthday. My uncle, aunt and cousin were luckily there since they wanted to surprise him on his vacay with a birthday party. When my mom called and told me, I was under shock. I felt so helpless.... It was a few rough weeks. But after two surgeries and his rehab he is finally getting discharged next week. This is the reason why it became so quiet here. I had to figure a few things out, worrying about my dad and struggling to keep up with school and work. But I managed it somehow...

My lessons-learned that nothing comes as planned... but we can managed it :-) I am glad everything is fine. June just wasn't my month I guess *haha* I don't know who remembers, but someone rear-ended me a week before eastern and guess what?! I just got discharged from physical therapy and two days later someone rear-ends me again... This time it was a hit and run and unfortunately the police wasn't able to locate the person. Anyway everything will go uphill from here ;-)

I wanted to share with you guys some pictures from our Memorial-Weekendtrip to Connecticut. We also went for a day-trip to Boston and my friends decided to get married that weekend. German beer, sushi, bbq's, sunny weather, great people :-) We had a blast and JT handled his first flight great considering the bumpy right we had to CT :-/

Visit from Germany

Mommy and daddy came for a visit to the States - again! After like 9 months not seeing them, my hubby and I picked them up at the airport mid-august :-) I was so excited to finally get a hug again!

They spent over two weeks with us and we had a wonderful time. They did some sightseeing in D.C., we went to Baltimore and the National Aquarium, visited a Amish Market, had a great cook out with the whole family and the cherry on the top was our trip to Myrtle Beach, South Carolina :-) only downside of that trip: JT and I both got stung by a some Jellyfish *grrr* That really hurt... Back in Maryland both JT and I had to work, but with this stressful schedule my parents where happy to spent some time at our place and just relax ;-) 

Wait the real cherry on top? My parents were able to be a part of another major decision in my/our life :-) updates following soon ;-)

Flight to the USA

typical German breakfast :)

Welcome BBQ for my parents

D.C. sightseeing

D.C. sightseeing

D.C. sightseeing

surf 'n' turf by my hubby :D

 

last night in SC - rain :-/

Seafood Muddle - so delicious

 

back to Maryland

National Aquarium in Baltimore

stupid jellyfish *grrr*

National Aquarium in Baltimore

Doriiii :D

I found Nemo ;-)

National Aquarium in Baltimore

Inner Harbor in Baltimore

Daytrips

Hard to believe, but finally we went on some daytrips again :) The last sightseeing tour I did, was the trip with my mom to Berlin to apply for my G5 visa :)

This time we went for a day to the beach in Ocean City! finally :D Since last year I try to go to OC, but it never worked out!

We had a really nice day at the beach and the weather was perfect :D we escaped the heat of a 100 degree in Laurel and had nice 82 degree at the ocean!!!

Last weekend we went one more time to New York City. At the Empire State Building I met the best friend of my sister and we went together up to the deck. Afterwards we went shopping :D Monica and JT were with me too and for JT it was the first time in NYC. He really liked it although he is not a big fan of cities. But Times Square was not his favorite :D but we will go another time and next time we go to see Central Parc and take the Staten Island Ferry :) We wanted to go to take the ferry but it would not have been nice. It was a really foggy day, because of the high humidity.

One afternoon in Baltimore

We decided to go for a walk to Baltimore Inner Harbor. Where did we get that idea? From my employers :D they went with Jill to the National Aquarium and saw on the GPS that they would pass us ;) so we met for a coffee.

It was a really beautiful day to stroll around in the Inner Harbor and finally the Bubba Gump Restaurant was finished :)


Bubba Gump Restaurant :D

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