STUNNING Geneve day!!!!

What a truly STUNNING day here in Geneve- it was quite cool this morning when I went out for a ride & then as I shed layers of Under Armor I realized I should just swing home & put on some summer threads....... Ended up being a day I could have set an Autumn tan..... Ah well- another day like this will be around. Wandered over to the Bain de Paquis & I found Joyce & met some new friends- Khalid from Morocco, Helmi from Algeria & Al from Guinea- Talk about an international city. We shared some apple shisha, some beers & some great conversation. They were AMAZED with my Arabic music collection that I had on my Iphone & kept saying "are you sure you are from America?" What a great way to break barriers with music. I could have stayed hours more, but know I will see them again- after all- this is Geneve :)

Willy J. Johnson Booberstein

Willy really wanted to be a part of this blog.

 Taken when we first got him on October 15th of 2010- he was such a little guy- Such big ears!!!

 He still had his baby teeth

Now at 3 years old. Such a handsome, funny, bratty & loving cat- who need to go on a diet like his dad's.....

Took this a few weeks ago when Geneve was having its Fetes de Geneve- may have to do a little post production but I think overall a good timed shot :)

Luzern Weekend

We were in Luzern over the weekend- what a beautiful place on this planet- a 3 hr train ride from Geneve & worth it. Although there were a million Chinese tourists there- for some reason they like to take my photo & think I dont think they are taking it...... We went on this lake tour- the Dragon Boat should have given us an indication the market they were going after- Anyway- we saunter upstairs- take our seats then the FLOOD of Chinese take over- they sit all around us- The amount of them made news headlines scroll through my head "Tourboat overturns on Lake Luzern- 500 Chinese & 2 cheap Americans dead" The ones sitting right next to me started taking photos of each other- trading the red scarf on one lady then on to another lady then another as they pose in the nuttiest poses..... Then I notice how they were kind of leaning my way & taking photos- I would move- they would move to get me in the shot- so I started pursing my lips, making stupid faces- finger up my nose etc...... I told Mark- yeah- wait until I stand up........ yep- I stood up & it was like a martian had just appeared on board- OOOOHHHH Take picture????. Same thing happened when I went to Beijing a few years ago & Tianamen Square- I had people almost lining up to take a photo with me. Never seen a tall whitey before I guess....... Anyway- I digress- Luzern is a beautiful place- had some great food, lots of great wine & did some great sightseeing. The amount of Chinese there made it feel like it was Disneyland & they were all the little kids running around fascinated @ lamp posts, phone booths, door knobs & trash cans....... Take picture???!!!!!

WOW- talk about a break!!!!

Cant believe its been since 2007 since I was in/on here last........ Not even going to get into what has happened in our lives since- nothing too exciting other than- in a nut shell- we moved to Switzerland in July of 2011 as Mark got an incredible offer with Expedia to transfer here to work in their new European HQ- so I tagged along :) we live in Geneva, we got a cat (Willy) much more on him for sure, Im looking for work, we travel a lot & will be doing more, we love it here so we signed up to stay another 2 years until the summer of 2014.

I just found this blog today- & i realize the little number of followers I had back then have abandoned me- well- I kind of deleted everyone to start new anyway- all 5....... 

So Im going to make a effort to keep this up from over here on out- Im tired of posting on Facebook, sometimes I dont want the whole world seeing what I post, sometimes im not very PC or child friendly- & sometimes I want to be- dont we all @ times??? I'll piss people off im sure- but hey- I can always remove it or the complainer & not be held to it if an potential employer looks up my Facebook page :)

This is a learning process :)

A bientot- no one who is listening......... yet :)