Wednesday, June 19, 2013

Time goes by too quick

Wednesday was the big day. Concert in Baltimore. Unfortunately we had no ticket for Bernd and the security won't let him in, so he had to stay outside all the time. He went to the next pier and listened to the concert from there. Baltimore is a nice town and worth visiting. He got such a bad mood that he did not want any pictures of him anymore.

Oh wondering to which concert we went, maybe you can recognize the musician on the picture I took. I had the feeling I would really need a reflex camera this time. My mobile took only bad pictures. Damn lighting
If you can not recognize him, here's a small hint. "I'm an alien, I'm a little alien, I'm an english ..."
You won't get more.

On Thursday it was time to leave Washington and head back to New York. This time we chose a seat on the other side of the train, so Bernd won't get bored of seeing the same buildings and landscapes again and keep him excited.
Next day we planed to visit Miss Liberty, you remember last time we only passed by on the ferry, the view we got was great but not as good as it would be when you're on Liberty Island. So we headed to the ferry and wanted to buy a ticket. Yes it costs a bit but how often would you have the chance to meet the Lady. Bad thing was that there was a hurricane warning so the boat won't stop at the island and would only ship around. At least saved the money. Last chance passed by to meet her.
Bernd got the idea that we could swim, but after looking at the distance and him probably getting some trouble with all the water we decided not to jump into the cold water.
So we walked around for a while, visited the Wall street, got through the security without any problems and took the subway to the beach.

No kidding, picture was taken in the subway.
After the ride with the subway we arrived at Rockaway beach, had a great time in the sun and enjoyed the good weather. Bernd found something to protect him from the sun.
When we walked along the beach we spotted some gulls. Bernd got a bit scared because he thought that they might plan to eat him


One thing that should be done we also did, we took this typical vacation pictures.

  

At the evening we went to the pier in Brooklyn , had a great sunset and good view on the Manhattan skyline.
 

Our trip to the USA was over much too quick and still so much left to see. Next time we gonna go a bit more to the south, don't know for sure were, but this traveling plans have much time.
Next trip in August is already planned, will also be good, I'm sure Bernd would love it.

Monday, June 10, 2013

Virginia Beach


The last days past by quick. We did not do much traveling. 
Bernd and I stayed at my aunts house, also my mom uncle have been there. Bernd enjoyed the time there. Watching many many new movies on a big TV, hanging out at the couch and doing nothing.
Seems he's really good at it.
I did  not have as much time to rest as he had, I helped my uncle putting on a new roof on the veranda.
So I was working a bit outside, at least we were outside in the sun and it was warm. Only had to make a break on working for a day, because Andrea (hurricane, got some rain) disturbed us all the time.



Yesterday we took the car to get to Virginia Beach to the Atlantic. In the car Bernd got his own special chair and he felt like sitting there as a king. The bad thing about his sit was, that it was to far away from the window, so he always disturbed me and took a look out of my window.




Bernd loved the beach, playing in the sand and sleeping in the sun. I told him that the sun might be really dangerous for the skin but he did not believe me. And as expected he got the worst sunburn you can get. His skin turned completely black and he was so upset and said that he will never get into the sun anymore. At night I carefully filed away the black crust, then he felt much better.
In the evening we walked along the pier and took a look around. There was also a small theme park, Bernd wanted to get into one of this huge bubbles and move along the water, but they told him that he is to small for it and will not get in there. So it seemed not to be a good trip for Bernd, sunburn ... nothing for him in the theme park ... but it changed the next day

Before we traveled back to Washington we went to a Naval base and took a look at some Navy ships. Also at an aircraft carrier. He was so excited, especially it was the USS Enterprise ( no kidding). Bernd started searching the base to find Captain Kirk, did not find him, Spock or another member of his crew anywhere.


Wednesday, June 5, 2013

Heading to Washington

Time in New York passed by to quick, today we had to take the train to Washington DC first it was a bit hard to get Bernd out of the bed. Well at least we were looking for seeing Washington.

Time to get up Buddy

During the train trip Bernd was all the time looking out of the window, enjoying the landscape and the towns we could see, sometimes only some train stations. He aldready started starring out of the window at Penn station, after the train started his nose seemed to be glued on the window.
Train ride was so far fine, good thing was a free wifi with internet during the whole trip, Bernd wasn't talking with me all the time.

 
To bad, no better view on Philadelphia from the train 

In Washington Bernd told me before leaving the train station that he will try his luck in this city. Don't know from where he got this thoughts about Washington. It's not known for gambling.
And he got lucky, just a view seconds after leaving the train station he found something on the floor.
After him finishing his celebration we walked around in Washington taking a view on buildings and some interesting places. Walked around the capitol, all the way down to the Washington monument. Cause of some repairs the monument did not give a great view. Next we headed to the White house, for me it felt so much different beeing there without all the christmas trees. But still great. And not so cold.
 


At the White house we decided to send our best wishes to one of our best friends, hoping that she would love it. To some Americans I told a bit about Bernds filming stuff, his English is not so good so I got to do all the talking, they were starting to love him, he was so excited.
First name should make it here, well first picture with me

On our way to the Lincoln Monument Bernd saw some people feeding squirrels so he also wanted to feed some. I thought it might be very dangerous for him, because many people feed them with bred so he might get bitten. I was ready rescuing him, yes I know I could have stopped him but that would not have been good for his confidence. Good for me the squirrel was as frightened of Bernd as he was and quickly fled from him.
Bernd was totaly exhausted when we arrived at Lincoln monument. So he took a break at the stairs. And something unexpected happened there, after a view minutes waiting there some tourists were passing by and were realizing that Bernd the bred was sitting on the stairs (no kidding). I didn't believe it that we will find someone here knowing Bernd, seems he is more popular than we thought. After giving some autographs we got up the stars and sayed hello to Mr Lincoln.

 

Despite the break Bernd was not in the condition of walking anymore, so I got to carry him the rest of the way, good that Bernd is not so heavy. We passed by at FDR (Franklin Delano Roosevelt) monument and walked a long the Potomac.
At the end we visited Thomas Jefferson and at a chinese restaurant Bernd got a fortune cookie.
 
The limit to your abilities is where you place it.

Monday, June 3, 2013

Exploring Manhattan

Yesterday we explored Manhattan, starting at Times Square. It sort of doesn't only feel like staying in the middle of a town, you can get the feeling of staying in a canon. Only the rocks get replaced by skyscrapers. It took a while for Bernd to starring at the skyscrapers and forcing me into taking a picture of him. He already got into this travel feeling and wants all the time a picture of him in front of the sights.

From Times Square we went to De Witt Clinton Park next to the Hudson river. The river does not really feel like a river, more like a part of the Atlantic. We have seen some small boats and followed the river in the south river park



After a longer walk we headed to central park and relaxed in the sun, enjoying the great weather we got. It did not really feel like being in one of the biggest cities in the world. The park is so big so that you do not get disturbed by the sound coming from the streets and can have a good time in the green.


What else did we see? We went to Rockefeller centre, headed to wallstr and all the way down to the south end of Manhattan. We wanted to get on Liberty island, but Bernds feets were aching so bad so we stopped our exploration there and took the metro back to Brooklyn


Bernd got a bit frightened when we saw this building, he thought it was the cube (remember the movie)


At least at the end of our exploration we could take a look at the Statue of Liberty, she is still far away, to far for swimming.






Sunday, June 2, 2013

We fly so high so high

Today is the first time for Bernd to be on a plane, he is completely frightened.
I hoped that he might be excited, but this hope died fast.

All the time I had to hold his hand and I told him "keep calm and carry on"
the flight to London was as quick as expected and we got a great view on all the clouds, appearing like a huge snowy landscape


At the plane we got something small for lunch , hmm never had seen this small cans for ages. Bernd still felt a bit thick so he did not take anything

In London we had enough time to hang out and relax a bit, especially Bernd needed to relax. behind the gangway he was acting like a pretty famous person , can't remember the name now


In the flight to New York was enough distraction from every fears so he did not mess up again.





Saturday, June 1, 2013

Berlin Berlin ...

First night of our trip was great.
We met a very nice and kind girl I met several month ago in London. At night we went to the movies and watched a 3d movie. Bernd did not join us he was kind of stressed from our ride.


 I've not been to the movies for a pretty long time now. The movie was good, so it was kind of worth the money.

Today we gonna have to leave Berlin and start our long long trip to New York. during the trip we will have a longer stay at London, but not the time to leave the airport and see the city again.



A picture of the place we have been yesterday, I know its an old pic from this place but I like it.