A beautiful weekend in Houston and Galveston

We used the long weekend to go to Houston and check out a big carshow and visit Linde in Galveston. Weather has changed since Thursday. From almost 30C (upper 80s) down to 10-20C (50-70F) and even frost at night. So we had to pack our jackets and explore Houston. Not even shure if it was due to the long weekend, but downtown Houston was veeerrryy quiet. Almost empty. Around was a lot of traffic, but inside it was like a ghosttown.
We walked from our currently Hotel (currently under renovation, but still great) to the carshow. It was the O'Reilly Autorama show. Tons of custom cars, Hot Rods, restorated cars... Was a great thing to see those cars. Mustangs, Cobras, Corvettes...

See more pictures here:
http://picasaweb.google.com/bigmek71/Houston_OReillyAutorama?authkey=Gv1sRgCMeU4Ji3mIuJqwE&feat=directlink

On saturday we drove down to Galveston at the golf of mexico. Weather was warmer than the day before. Warm enough to walk on the beach with Linde and even go into the water with the feet :-)

The three of us
With Linde on the beach

A hardcore surfer girl

Houston


Debby Ryan from the Disney TV Series ZACK and CODY giving autographs
The BATMOBILE
A nice 1930 Ford Model A Roadster

Fried Thanksgiving Turkey

We were in the great situation that a colleague, Brad, invited us to participate his 13th Thanksgiving Dinner with fried Turkeys. It was a really great experience. I have had a regular Thanksgiving turkey several years ago, but having a fried turkey was something new. A great crowd of Brads friends, family and colleagues gave us as some newbies a warm welcome and we had a great day. We were, needless to say, stuffed.

Again on 6th Street

It was the last night for some of my colleagues from Japan and Germany, so we went to 6th Street. Dagmar and Josefine dropped us off and we went to some Live Music Bars. Blue Moon, Dizzy Rooster. Also Coyote Ugly was on the list. Since my japanese colleague heard from his colleague it is good. Well it is good, sometimes. But I guess due to Thanks giving all the nice waitresses were on vacation and the more ugly Coyote's were present. So we took off very fast. The Live Music was good at the Blue Moon. Dizzy Rooster was ok, but not pretty crowded. Music was more Rock. Was a nice night on 6th. Now we will enjoy a Thanks Giving Turkey at a colleagues place near Round Rock.

First days in Austin, Texas

We arrived fine in Austin,TX. With wonderful mild summerlike temperatures in the 70s/80s (20-30 C). All is fine, rental car, Hotel. Rental is a 261HP Nissan Xterra, just the right size for Texas :-). The Jetlag is taking maybe 2 more days and then we are pretty good adapted. Currently three colleagues are here from Germany, Japan, France, but they will leave end of this week. That means, that I will be on my own for the rest of the 4 weeks. Of course Dagmar and Josefine are with me for a total of 2 weeks, but then it will be more quiet. Luckily I know some people and so I can have some meetings with colleagues and talk about work etc.

Enjoy some of the current pictures.

Up in the sky

We had a very very pleasant trip so far to Atlanta and now with free inflight Internet access to Austin, cooool.Josefine finally sleeps.

Last warm,sunny day

Up to 18C in mid November is pretty rare for germany. We were lucky to have that weather last weekend, so we made a walk with the dog.

Theaterkarra D'r Gardazwerga Mord Premiere

Once more we attended a Theaterkarra show. This so called Mundart Theater speaks in the local swabian languange and they present mostly funny stories. So since our Neighbours are playing/organising each year we are invited for the premiere. It takes place in a Restaurant with a large enough room to host that show. We loved the new story about the "killing" of a garden gnome", was very funny.