Germany, Week 1

13 06 2008

So, I’m here in Germany having a blast!  I’ve gotten a little behind in updating the blog lately, but I’m catching up.  Here’s a few pictures from the first week.  Or just go here to check out all my pictures as I upload them.

Heres a normal street in Frankfurt. We were there for a short time between our flight and our train leaving.

Just a normal street

A statue of Goethe in Leipzig where I am staying. This was in the “down town” section. The buildings are all amazing.

Johann Wolfgang Goethe

This was in Berlin. A great view over the Jewish Holocaust memorial, and you can see the Reichstag building in the background.

The Reichstag in the background

In Berlin we got to eat at the most famous Curry Wurst stand in Germany. It was pretty awesome.

So good!!

This is the Berlin Dome Church. I really can’t thing of the words to explain how beautiful the inside was. The amount of history that the crypt held was quite insane!

The Berlin Dome

Just a bit of silliness as we were walking back to the train station in Berlin.

Bycicle Lane


On Saturday we got to go to Wittenburg during the festival of the celebration of Luthor’s marriage. Lots of history there. Luthor is the guy that started the whole Protestant reformation by nailing a thesis he had written (the 95 Thesis) to the church door. This is a picture of that door, or at least the door way with the thesis on it.

The 95 Thesis

Then on Sunday a few of us got to go to the Porshe factory in Leipzig. They make the Cayennes here. (the SUV’s) Yea, it was awesome.

In my dreams


Check back for second week highlights.





Weekend and Food

16 05 2008

Last weekend was a very interesting one indeed. It involved a factory, some laughter, and a Twinky-Weener-Sandwich. I went with Christian and Harmony and friends to eat at the Cheesecake Factory, which was awesome. Then we went to a “Second Chance” Prom. Danced, laughed and had a lot of fun.


Chris and Harmony Slow Dancing


I had my camera so many pictures were taken.


A Little Crazy



After we finished dancing to YMCA, we headed over to Josh Davis’s Graduation party and had some good times. Interesting people and food were the order of the night.


Just friends.... really!


You might find this odd, but it was the hotdog that made it gross:


YUM?


Twinky-Weener-Sandwitch!!





Denton Courthouse and Fire Engine

29 04 2008

A Picture I took on my way to the Denton Arts and Jazz Festival. I really like the colors and the composition.

Denton Courthouse and Fire Engine





Aeryck’s Birthday at the Zoo

13 04 2008

Lack of posts is due to being sick. Sucks, but oh well.

Sunday the March 30th we had a birthday party for my 2-year-old nephew Aeryck. Here we see that he prefers to swing by leaning as far forward as possible.

Aeryck Swinging

Even though he always has his “Greeny Bear” with him. He still gets distracted and abandons him sometimes.

Green Bear Abandoned

The first animals that they came to were the flamingos. Aeryck was pretty happy about it.

Aeryck and the Flamingos
I started having some fun with my big lens and took a few “wildlife” photographs.

Goose
Duck
Zebra
Deer
Here’s Liam posing.

LIam
Aeryck is a huge car fan. His favorite movie of course is Cars.

Happy B-Day Aeryck!
This is the whole clan and friends that came to be racers at the zoo.

The whole group

I have quite a few other pics up on my flickr here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/briandan/sets/72157604346464277/





Bad to the Bone?

18 03 2008

Bad to the bone?It’s always funny to see the various things that are placed on babies in the name of “cute!”