Well, Brendon has finished a crazy few days of meetings and now his company will go to phase two of their work with their German partner. It was nice meeting everyone from Netopia (California and Europe) that I hadn't met before. I gave a few of the guys a tour of Munich on Monday afternoon and we all had dinner together Monday night, which was very nice. I'm posting a few pics from our city tour: Viktualienmarkt (an outdoor marketplace that sells everything from souvenirs to flowers to fruit, veg and meat - it's pretty cool) and another of the English Garden (I'll never get sick of it).

We're also looking forward to some friends from college arriving for a visit on Saturday - the next group of photos may be much more interesting, so stay tuned!

Oh and baby says hello to everyone - she's kicking me as we speak - quite the squirmer ;-)

We had a pretty good weekend - after Brendon got done fixing a Bell South problem at 11pm on Friday night!

On Saturday we went to the English Garden for a while, had drinks and munchies at the Chinese Tower, played with Finn and had some good laughs spotting nude sunbathers. Of course Finn and I tried to stay out of the way of the mad bikers, who were riding off the paths, but it was to no avail... (see pics) Then, as Brendon had a hankering for a "real" steak and I was craving Mexican (of any kind), we went to the Hard Rock Cafe for dinner. Great food, ridiculous prices, but we got the added bonus of seeing some 18(ish) year old boys pass out on a table and literally have to be picked up, forced to pay and escorted out by security - ah the joys of Oktoberfest ;-)

On Sunday we went to lunch with our friends Tim & Magdalena (whom we met in Australia) and their daughter Lee. Then helped them to paint their flat - they're moving - and we went to dinner with Brendon's boss Jerry, who's in town from the States. Lots of fun.

Well, it's almost officially a girl! We're 80% sure, but she was moving around a lot during the ultrasound, which made it difficult to say with 100% accuracy. Anyway, very exciting. Now eveyone, myself included, can have fun thinking about all the things she'll do - play soccer, gymnastics, harrass the boys, go fishing, hiking, etc. Did I mention we don't allow girly-girls into the family ;-)

We had a fabulous time on Saturday hiking around Herrsching and visiting the Andechs Monastery and Brewery with one of Brendon's friends from work and his family. The weather was perfect and the scenery was fabulous. Aside from that we got out of the city!!! Woo-hoo!!! I think I need to do that everyday. Now we just need to get Finn used to the trains so that we can take him with us next time :)

Well, after much searching, I finally figured out what my password is for this page and can log in and blog some more. Not really much news to report at the moment. Brendon's in Paris for work and Finn and I have just been hanging out walking to the park, etc.

The pope was here over the weekend. Thus, many of the stores shut down and police presence in the city was much higher than normal. Unfortunately no pope-mobile sightings for us.

We are looking forward to the start of Octoberfest this coming weekend though. Me, mostly just because I've never been here during Octoberfest before. Should be an interesting experience. We've got two sets of friends coming to visit over the next few weeks to party it up German style - and I'm sure I'll be the life of the party. The fun thing about being pregnant - all the apple juice I can drink! Woo-hoo!