Like in the two years before Mia's hip hop group performed at the summer event of the Haus der Jugend on the last weekend before the start of the summer vacation

New Passport

Two weeks after a trip to the US consulate in Frankfurt - where we had to leave at 5:30 am for a 7:00 am appointment - Mia received her new passport in the mail

Olympic trip to Paris

On a day off at school the ladies hpped on an early train to Paris to see the city 24 day before the opening of the Olympic games - leaving a bit after 6 am and arriving at Paris Est at 9:50 am.

Thw Hotel de Ville - the town hall:

Another stop was at the Olympic stadium

Some shopping options

Time for lunch

At the Louvre

At the Eiffel tower

Heading back home with an baguette

Jerry in Heidelberg

After a surpise message from my former professor at LSu from which I had no heared in years we met for dinner at Scharzer Peter and then walked him back to his hotel

Back to Europe

In the morning we spend some time in the Tyson's Corner Mall and had some lunch there

Then we made another trip to IAD where we caught up with major news before boarding our flight to Amsterdam since no direct flight to Frankfurt was available

The flight then had no problems and we finally made to Frankfurt on a Lufthansa flight from Amsterdam to Frankfurt the next day

Wednesday in Arlington

 Wednesday was supposed to be our last day in the US. First we had another nice breakfast in the hotel

After our good bye to Maria and Chloe we noticed that Maria's car had a flat tire and tried to help change it - but without a special key for the fancy tires no such luck

After ome more shopping trip to Trader Joe's where we noticed the wrongly place "No dogs" can pee here  sticker Dan had mentionedand lunch...

..we hopped on the Silver line for the trip to IAD

But no only Maria's car had problems - our plane back to Frankfurt as well after waiting for an hour on the runway we had to leave again and after many hours of waiting at the airport and re-booking for the next day we took a Lyft to a hotel in Reston at 1 am

Tuesday in Arlington

Tuesday we made another quick trip across the river to DC to see former colleagues at the office and Mia and her friend came along. After this they had a look at the White house

 
Then a few fresh donuts at Dupont Circle

Then meet our friends for a good bye dinner at our favorite Mexican place in Clarendon