Category Archives: Travel

Sailing in Konstanz

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One of our clients has a sailboat on Lake Konstanz, the very large lake here that borders at least 3 countries. He suggested that today would be a great day for sailing and well who are we to argue? ;) It was wonderful! We spent about 4 hours out on the water and then we came back into the harbour and spent another hour drinking champagne and chatting. You will get no complaints for me. :) Pictures of all the fun are below. The fancy pants shoes we’re wearing are the shoes we bought to wear on the boat. It turns out you have to wear white sole shoes on sailboats or you risk scratching up the boat. I am sure you can see from the pictures what a beautiful day it was to be out sailing. Too bad I can’t do this on all of my trips here! :D

Day Rooms

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One of the best parts about this trip to Germany is the fact that my supervisor deemed it necessary to rent us day rooms at the Zurich Airport. We arrived too early to check into our hotel in Konstanz and we were a bit too exhausted to go straight into the office so she rented us these phenomenal little rooms. Each room contains a bed, sink, tv and towels so you can sleep, watch TV and shower. It was just wonderful. I passed out in my bed then woke up took a shower changed into some work clothes and we were on our way. The lady who was running registration for the day rooms even called to check on our luggage so that once we made it to baggage claim all our luggage was on a cart neatly waiting for us. I give a giant two thumbs up to anyone ever traveling to Zurich who is contemplating renting a day room. It’s totally worth the money to keep your sanity. :D

Day room picture 1

Day room picture 2

View out the window of the day room

Home sweet home

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I am home from a very busy and wonderful weekend at Maryland Sheep and Wool. I didn’t have much internet access while I was there so now I have a fair bit of catching up to do. More updates to come. For now though I am going to relax and hang with the boy. Tomorrow afternoon I get to hop on a plane to Germany for work again. I may be a little bit tired when I get home next week! Especially since May is always a super busy month in my life. Have a great night everyone! :)

Maryland Sheep & Wool After Party

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I’m very excited to have LittleWit and friends staying with me next weekend for the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. It’s going to be a ton of fun.

If you’re going to be at the festival too and don’t have plans for Saturday evening, join us all at the fabulous after party:

@GuidoS Dreamy MS&W After Party
By ewes, for youse… cause who else is gonna dream up this kinda party?

May 2, 2009 8 pm to 11 pm
Hilton Columbia
5485 Twin Knolls Road
Columbia, MD 21045

Sponsored by:
* Martha’s Vineyard Fiber Farm
* Webs Americas Yarn Store
* Tactile Travel

For $11 you’ll find:
* Munchies
* Door Prizes
* Cash Bar
* A place to relax & hang out with other fiber lovers
* An opportunity to admire everyone’s new stash
* Faces to put with those internet conversations
* An opportunity to donate knitted or crocheted items to charity

Register now at dreamyafterparty.eventbrite.com/- there is a 150 person limit and we need to know how much food to order so everyone can be accommodated!

Georgetown

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I got back into town last night. The boy’s aunt graciously drove up and picked me up at the airport then took me back to her home to feed me and let me crash for the night. It was wondermous. Wonderful home cookin, a familiar bed and shower AND I got to run a load of wash. She dropped me off at my hotel where I rested for about an hour before hitting the metro to head to Georgetown. I was meeting up with bunnysquirrel at Stitch DC and wanted to get outside to enjoy the beautiful weather! Once I got to Foggy Bottom I decided to be lazy and hop on the Circulator because I couldn’t remember how long a walk it was into Georgetown from the metro. Turns out it was only a couple bus stops but I thoroughly enjoy riding the Circulator and it only cost me about $.35 so it was worth it. :D I hopped over to Stitch DC and went to Chopsticks next door to get some yummy sushi. I love that sushi is a much better tasting fast food. I can usually be in and out of a sushi joint in 30 minutes if I so choose. :) Bunnysquirrel was still on her way when I finished chowing down so I decided to bide my time in the bookstore. Which is a silly thing for me to do since I know I can rarely walk in and out of a bookstore without spending a good $50. But I was on per diem. ;) So why not? I had a grand time wandering around the bookstore. I found some cute journals, a yarn harlot book (I may have re-shelved all the Stephanie Pearl McPhee books so they were next to one another instead of scattered) and a best seller that my cousin had read and liked. I then wandered off to a paper store to look at some thank you cards as I am a bit behind on getting some of those out. I grabbed some nice ones off their 50% off shelf but they ended up not being on sale so I didn’t buy anything. :(

At that point bunnysquirrel was nearing the city so I hopped back over to Stitch DC and started wandering around. They had rearranged since I had last been there and seemed to have shifted their stock as well. I did find some lovely purple cashmere silk yarn that may have come home with me. Of course there was an obligatory Ravelry search to see if it fit the specs for any of the items in my queue. ;) Fortunately it did.  I also snagged the IK Spring magazine as there is something in there I would like to make some day. We chatted and hung around the shop for a bit with the employee and then scooted out at closing. Being such a gorgeous day, I insisted we get ice cream. So we went off to get ice cream and then parked in front of a church to eat it and knit. Although I didn’t knit at all because silly me I forgot to bring the pattern with me. :) We rounded out the evening at TGI Fridays with another chum of mine and then a trip back to my hotel room. I am not sure I was great company toward the end as I couldn’t seem to keep my eyes open. Jet lag and the time change are taking a toll on me! :)