The Roaming Robots

The past two weeks have been...pretty uneventful. A week ago Friday we went to Raymond's work's anniversary party. It was held at this bar on the rooftop of a building that is set up like a beach with sand and beach chairs and such. A little odd, but apparently a thing here. It was a lot of fun hanging out with his coworkers. Before we went Raymond was just like see - now I take you to fancy work parties :) We got there and you can see forever! It was maybe an 8 story building and that is high enough that there is very little above it. I was talking with a few coworkers significant others and they were asking how I liked it here. I said so far so good and they seemed shocked that I liked it and that we planned and wanted to move here. They were both German, and said that people here are really rude and not that friendly. Really I haven't had any issues - people try and talk to me a lot when I am out shopping and usually the German is beyond my grasp but they are very nice a...

So I know I didn't update last week, but that is just because we didn't do anything fun and exciting. Last weekend was overcast and rainy so we went shopping and ran errands on Sat and then snuggled up and watched movies on Sunday (Raymond wanted a lazy day anyways so it worked out :) The above two photos are from a park close to where we had dinner one night. We were looking for some ice cream afterwards and sat in the park near this building - not sure what it was, but there were lots of people milling about. There was also this daycare center or something with blue sheep on top....kind of random. Raymond did however point out that this was the same park we took a nap in when we visited last time. There are all kinds of silly sculptures and such around town which I love. While running errands I came across this painting on the underpass which I loved. I know this is a bunch of random photos, but I liked all the art that is around, even though there is no...

So last week it finally got to be summer and super hot and sunny here in Berlin. I think it was in the 90's most of the week and it is a good thing there are so many eis cafes around or I would have melted. It was a nice week - picnics in the park, eating lots of ice cream, cooling off in our apt. We were going to go swimming on Sat at one of the lakes, but then Sat was supposed to be overcast and thunderstorms so maybe this weekend. Sat we got up and went down to this veggie french bakery for a vegan brunch - I was told there would be croissants and crepes and such all vegan and all you can eat so I was pretty excited. We got there...and no croissants! There were crepes with jelly for filling and a few other things but nothing very exciting. I was very disappointed. Though since it was supposed to rain we took the subway down and on the way I noticed lots of markets so we had lot of adventures exploring on the way home. There were markets everywhere, but most of them a...

From In Berlin Hello! So I have been here just over 2 weeks now which is a bit crazy and things are finally coming together. I really like our apartment. Lots of room and it is very quiet as we are a block off the main road. We finally got some furniture last week so the place is not as empty and we actually have chairs to sit on and a bed to sleep in (that is not the noisy air mattress). I even have my craft table set up, but I am still looking for storage for my fabrics and such (the ones I wanted were out of stock). Yesterday I sewed up curtains for the front windows so we can have the privacy blinds (big metal blinds that come down and cover the front windows and are on most of the ground floor windows around town) up and Raymond won't freak out that people can see in.The bedroom/my craft room is pretty much done. The back of the house gets much better light during the day so I set up shop back there to take advantage of it. If I worked in the front rooms I would need the...

This blog started as a way to detail all of our adventures in life starting with hiking the PCT in 2008. I haven't kept up with it and I didn't write about any of our smaller adventures we have had since then. However after plotting and planning for almost 2 years we have moved to Berlin so I think this is a great time to write about this newest adventure! Not sure how often I will update it but whenever I have something to say :) So why and how did we end up here? Well we visited Europe in 2010 just for fun and to see if we could find a city we might want to move to. We both instantly loved Berlin. We were here in late Sept mid week and just had an amazing time and it just felt like home. We were walking around and it felt like a weekend day - we were just our and about eating, lounging in the park, etc. Once we got back we saved like crazy since we thought we would have to go back to school (school is free but you have to prove you can live for a year without working so ...

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So it started raining on us for days and we cut out to come back to Seattle for a few days and wait for it to clear up.....and then Raymond decided he really did not want to go back out. So I at first was pretty upset cause I really wanted to get to Canada, or at least as far as we could while the weather was still nice this weekend. And I was feeling really like we were giving up for no reason. Like if one of us were injured or if I was hating it or something then I would have been better about it. But instead it was like the forecast called for gorgeous weather this weekend and we were just going to sit at home. I figured we could have at least gotten to the next stop and then only had one more chunk to do next year, but Raymond really didn't want to go back out so we decided not to. But hopefully by this time next year we will get the last 2 sections done, and maybe go back and do the section from white pass to snoqualmie as we went RIGHT by Mt Rainier and it is supposed to be g...

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