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Posted in Hanna, Katzen, Salt Lake City, Travel on Aug 10th, 2010
a.k.a. “Our cats up in the air: Salt Lake - Atlanta - Stuttgart”
Of course we wouldn’t leave our cats behind when moving to Europe. I have been following local ads on craigslist over the past two years and for many people in SLC, moving seems to be equivalent to abandoning pets. I got [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Aug 1st, 2010
….as we know it!”
Well, that’s actually not entirely true since we are first moving back home before going to Switzerland. But still…the song Kelly was singing for the last two weeks still has a point. We are leaving Salt Lake City for real, it’s tough but it’s also a new beginning of something great.
When we [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, Travel, University on Jul 23rd, 2010
The title says it all. Soon, we’ll be starting a new chapter in life. After almost two years in Salt Lake City we will leave the US again (sooner than expected) and move back to good old Europe: Switzerland to be more precise. Our PI accepted a job offer at the University of Fribourg [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on May 9th, 2010
Last year, I watched the 2009 (Half)Marathon in SLC finish at the Gateway mall and I was really struck by the fact that people that were less athletic than I am finished the race. Back then I wrote the following:
[...] and to see who’s running a half marathon was kind of shocking….basically EVERYBODY. Even some [...]
Posted in Hanna, Katzen, Salt Lake City on Apr 24th, 2010
A little bit of Switzerland made in Germany. I hope you had a great time with all your Easter eggs and bunnies. For making us feel like home (even without any free holidays) we bought some Lindt “Osterhasen” (lovingly called “Goldhasen”).
The English GOLD BUNNY label still looks kind of strange to me and please [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Apr 24th, 2010
Passion for skiing seems to be required by law of any Utah resident (at least to a certain degree) and after living here for more than one year it was definitely time for us to join those crazy people. Of course we didn’t go backcountry skiing like our friends do it most of the time, but [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Nov 26th, 2009
Yep, it’s again this day of the year when good food and nice people come together. Thanksgiving, a real American holiday. We’ll spend most of the day in Park City at Karen and Jeff’s house (my 2001/02 host aunt and uncle). They invited us over, Mary, Dick and Beth (my host family minus Ann) will [...]
Posted in Hanna, Salt Lake City on Nov 25th, 2009
Was it really love at first sight when Nori and Watson met? Well, probably not really but they never really hated each other either - you could never hear one mean sound, no hissing or growling, they shared their food from day 1 but of course they still had to get to know each other [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Nov 24th, 2009
…that’s my new title since Marc and I have found a new hobby. Of course that’s my personal title and I can’t speak for Marc. To be honest, he’s in much better shape than I am even though he was just as lazy the last couple of months…but being a guy seems to help. Anyway….we [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City, Travel on Nov 23rd, 2009
September 21st is not only my mum’s birthday, this year it was also the day my parents arrived in SLC. Their first time in the U.S. if you don’t count their visits to the U.S. Virgin Islands (the insular area is actually U.S. territory but not part of the U.S. states) or U.S. airports. I [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Aug 22nd, 2009
Last month, Marc and I were invited to a wedding in Salt Lake City. Mark (Marc’s former room mate) and his girl friend Annie got married. The wedding was outside of town so in order to get there we had to get a rental car. I love having a car - I actually don’t like [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Jun 24th, 2009
That’s at least what I can call it. Yesterday was a very special day for us…we got a little kitten!!! We’re at the U ten hours a day and we don’t want to leave Watson all by himself for such a long time every day (without mentioning the time we are going to spent on [...]
Posted in Basketball, Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Apr 28th, 2009
NBA playoffs started last week and we had tickets. So on Thursday, Soazig, Marc, and I watched the first home game of the Utah Jazz vs. LA Lakers. Utah had lost the first two games in Los Angeles and being a best of seven series (the first team winning 4 games goes to the [...]
Posted in Hanna, Marc, Salt Lake City on Apr 27th, 2009
Last weekend was marathon weekend in SLC. What an event. And NO, I wasn’t part of it. Well, mainly because we were planning on going on a trip to Canyonlands national park, which got canceled last minute by our university tour guide. How disappointing - I was so exited to go camping and on a [...]
Posted in Hanna, Salt Lake City on Apr 22nd, 2009
I always felt kind of sorry for indoor cats - isn’t life about hunting mice and birds - at least a cat’s life. But I had some bad experience in the past letting my cats go outside and I started to see it from a different angle. Well, nevertheless, I decided to let Watson have [...]