The Hanique's

Third week of our trip - Tourist attractions

It's been a while since I've posted anything. Things have been kind of crazy coming back home and getting straight back to work and normal everyday life. I came across some more pictures of our stay in California. We decided to do some touristy stuff so we went to see Hollywood, Beverly Hills and Rodeo Drive. Our cousins Steffani and Andy joined us with their daughter Amberlin. It was great!

And to complete this wonderful day we had a really nice dinner at Lawry's, which is famous for it's prime rib.

Third week of our trip - Beaches

For those of you who don't know: California is situated at the west coast of the United States. So there's lots of beaches you can go to. And since "It never rains in Southern California", according to Albert Hammond's song, it's always nice to go to the ocean. So we spent quit some time at different locations along the coast; Dana Point, San Clemente, New Port and Laguna Beach.

This is Dana Point.

This is San Clemente.

We had breakfast at the Beachcomber at Newport Beach.

This is Laguna Beach.

Third week of our trip - celebrating family birthdays

During the third week of our trip we got to see the family again. We celebrated the March birthdays - aunt LeeAnn, Steffanie, Dad and my (belated) birthday. Grandma made us taco's, yummie!

It was nice to see everyone and we met Amberlin for the first time. Of course everyone took turns in holding her :)

Here's us with Grandma and with my cousins Steffanie, Staci, Tonya and Andy.

Second week of our trip - Rodeo

Austin, TX is a great city to hang out in very hip bars and restaurants. There are tons of those.
So we had our share of that. One thing I didn't expect in such a modern city was a Rodeo. I could have know of course, being in Texas 'n' all.
Unfortunately we couldn't stay until the real rodeo began, but we saw a lot of other things like a pig race, a shoot out between bandits and the sherrif and dirt bikers doing stunts. We had a corn dog and Guillaume got hooked on fried snickers.

Second week of our trip - meeting Ella

First week of our trip

We arrived in Baltimore, MD last Saturday evening. Our friend Marlies came to pick us up from the airport. It's so nice to spend time with her and her family and catch up on things! We've done a lot of cool things; we went to her church, we went shopping, we had lunch at Fuddruckers, we went to Washington DC and to an Amish Farmers Market. So there's lots of pictures, too much to post them all on the blog but here's some to give you an impression.