A great weekend and a photo

Friday night of this weekend we went to a friend of ours, Lili's, place for dinner. She is a post-doc visiting Max Planck Institute from University College of London. She is really a great addition to the cyberneum group. Her research interests are very much in line with what Jenny, Tobi and I are interested in, but more importantly she is really nice, into the outdoors and an all around good person. She invited, Jenny, Brian, Oscar and I over for dinner on friday and cooked us chinese food. She also cooked fish and it was really yummy. Then she showed us her photographs from her recent honeymoon to Bhutan (near Nepal and in the heart of the biggest mountains in the world!). Her photographs were fantastic and it was great to hear about her trip.

Then last night the Buelthoff's invited us over for dinner (again Jenny, Brian (jenny's husband), Oscar and I). Prof Buelthoff is my boss and his wife also has her PhD and is really great. She is from Switzerland and she made us fondue, using Oscar and my favorite cheese: Greyer. :) They have two kids and their younger child (19 or so) joined us a for a bit of the time. Oscar and I both had a fantastic time. Now today we are just doing laundry, listening to the rain hit our window, calling family, and I am working on faculty applications (fortunately, only that last one on the list involves any kind of stress!). That is my idea of a really nice sunday! :)

I've been meaning to post this photograph Oscar took the other night when we went for a bike ride. This is my new bike- which I call "Sharpy". ;) It is a good bike- and yes, I know in this photograph I have a lot of style with my pink striped shirt, orange vest and multi-colored red hat. The german's don't know what to think when they see me biking by! :)