A wonderful good evening family, friends and my other dearest followers. I want to start this entry with some motion pictures from the Santa Barbara trip last weekend. And I have to tell you, as I edited the few clips Greg had captured with his iPhone, and added some of my favourite songs, I recognized what a wonderful life I live here. Check this out:
I think the perfect caption would be something like „Beauty of life at the fullest“. I can‘t believe that I have such a perfect life right now... I‘m really thankfull!
So lets get back to the stories of our lives. I think the last blog entrie by Greg (which was funny as hell) was on Tue or Wed, so I start with wednesday night. We went over to Carlos and had some really good Pizza and a nice talk with him. Afterwards we went back home again to watch the Baseball Finals between the Phillies and the Yankees. And guess who won?! Of course, if I got a Yank named Greg here the Yankees won. Awesome.
Thursday started early, both of us tired as hell but we wanted to start our day early cause it was supposed to be a lot to do. My boss Jochen was so nice to get me time off on thursday and friday, so I was able to enjoy life with my special Greg here. We packed our surfboards and stuff in my pretty little car and headed north, up the Pacific Coast Highway towards Malibu. It was awesome there, beautiful nice weather, no one in the water, a lonely lifeguard tower and some good waves. So we went into the water, which isn‘t that warm anymore, but hey, we got balls:-) Surfing starts to get better and better, I made it a few times up on my board and caught my longest ride ever. Greg is also doing better, even with the shortest shortboard of all time:-D
Time to leave the ocean, dry our surferboybodies ;-) and head to Beverly Hills. It was great, we went up and down the streets to see some nice houses where probably a lot of stars live...And also a lot of great cars on the streets...so we saw this sportscar and both of us: „wow dude, look at this car..“ and instantly after that greg and me were yelling „ DUUUUUDDDEEE IIITTTSSS LLIIIONNNNEEELL RRIIIICHHHIIIEEEEE“. Hahaha! And yes it was, Lionell Richie, so I hit the breaks and u-turned my car on the 6 lanes Beverly Hills Main Street, haha all the guys out there probably thought we‘d be insane...and they are right:-) So we pushed the Corolla to its limits and raced as fast as we could go! And there it was, our chance, the lights turned red and we stopped directly beside Lionel. We both waved, thumbed up and he was perfect! Smiling into the camera, waving back and also put his thumbs up! That was awesome!!!
The plan was to get to Travis Barkers Famous Store, but sadly we lost the adress, we had no idea where to go. So we decided to drive down to Manhatten beach to surf to the sunset. Again one of the experiences I will never forget. A great beach, a pier and the sunset and me, surfing directly beside the pier seeing the sun go down...look at the picture and you will know what I‘m talking about!!!
Time again to get out of the water. We went home to shower hot hot hot and left for Griffith Park. Before, we stopped at the shopping mall near my house and did some shopping for ourselves and gregs family. The drive to Griffith Park should turn out to not be that easy. My navigation system turned completely crazy, the guy told me to drive up roads which don‘t even exist hehe! But yeah, it was no big deal, cause we drove some little streets up the hills with a view completely unbelievable and insane houses - just wow!!!! Awesome! Finally we made it up the hill to Griffith Park, which is an observatory on top of the hills of LA, with a great view at the Hollywood Sign and over whole Los Angeles. Just take a look at the pics below and you will see how mindblowing this view is!!! Sadly we lost a lot of time driving there and so we only had a couple of minutes left to enjoy the view, but believe me it last! Time to head home to go sleeping cause friday was also supposed to be a long day!!!
7am: Ringeldidingeldiding! The alarm went down, both again tired as hell but ready to hit the road down to San Diego Baby!!! For breakfast we went to IHop, the international house of pancakes. I had some Banana-Strawberry-Pans....dude!!! Delicious as f***! :-)
After that great morning meal which almost let our stomaches burst we went to Newport Beach. For me as a big OC California Fan a must see hahahaha! Sadly the place isn‘t exactly the beach and pier they‘re shooting the series but dude! Who cares?!?! It was great there, a lot of surfers in the water, some really really nice beach house you definitely could spend your last days...We drove through the streets of NPBeach, looked at the houses, cars and boats and thought, wow, how nice can a place probably be?!?! Newport Beach is definitely one of my favourite towns here in beautiful California. (The one with the blue marquee is my one :-)
Next stop San Diego, but wait, a sign showing to Laguna Beach...alrighty! Lets go there we said! And again, the drive down there, just amazing. The landscape here is sooo beautiful. All the palm trees, the green fields, the ocean and the beautiful houses....paradise! I think in Laguna Beach we probably were the oldest and cheapest car, haha, no wonder, but yeah, a lot of Porsches, Ferraries and Escalades. Seems to be the home of the rich and the famous;-)
Wow, this is probably the longest blog entry ever, not yet finished and worth to spend a couple of more words. Next stop San Diego! As we drove down there, the colors turned from a beautiful green to brown...seems like the mexican border isn‘t that far away any more...:-) We stopped at a surf outlet and I bought some nice stuff for surfing and a new backpack - shopping here is soo sweet:-) After a quick stop at downtown San Diego we went to the famous Pacific Beach to surf some waves. And they were awesome, probably head high ones, with a good break. Paddling out was again the hardest part of the session. Its soo exhausting to get throught the breaking waves, always pushing you back to the beach or ripping you of your surfboard. But yeah, I got to say, surfing gets better and better. I caught some really high ones and rode 3 or 4 completely till the beach stopped me! It‘s such a great feeling to see the wave coming, paddel in, stand up on your tiny board and ride for 10 secs only with the power of the wave. Greg also caught some and had a lot of fun.
For the evening I had some tickets for a show at the house of blues. All time Low, a great pop punk band stopped there with the Glamour Kills tour. The venue was just awesome, a huge building with a restaurant, a bar and a nice concert room. All styled like you imagine an old blues club, great! As we already had recognized the whole day, San Diego girls are very very pretty, and that shouldn‘t change at night:-) May the age went down to mid teenagers but yeah, still a lot of hotties around:-) So as you can imagine me and Special Greg had a lot of fun and the bands were great! The main act, All time low was funny as hell. The singer seemed to be drunk or on dope or something. Kidding all the time but still singing sooo good! Check out the video below:
So guys, that should be it for today. I had a couple of awesome days with my dearest Greg! It was sooo great to have him here. I will miss him, but I‘m sure he will also miss Cali!!! Dude come back whenever you want to!!!
There is one thing left I want to say, I skyped with a good friend earlier this night and for us as real men it was kind of emotional and I recognized one thing again. You don‘t need tons of „friends“, the only thing you need are a handfull of real close buddies you love - and I definitely got em! You guys know who I‘m talking about. Thank you all so much for being there, I miss you and we will have a great time again soon! Keep things going crazy at home for me! Miss you guys, you‘re awesome!!!
I think the perfect caption would be something like „Beauty of life at the fullest“. I can‘t believe that I have such a perfect life right now... I‘m really thankfull!
So lets get back to the stories of our lives. I think the last blog entrie by Greg (which was funny as hell) was on Tue or Wed, so I start with wednesday night. We went over to Carlos and had some really good Pizza and a nice talk with him. Afterwards we went back home again to watch the Baseball Finals between the Phillies and the Yankees. And guess who won?! Of course, if I got a Yank named Greg here the Yankees won. Awesome.
Thursday started early, both of us tired as hell but we wanted to start our day early cause it was supposed to be a lot to do. My boss Jochen was so nice to get me time off on thursday and friday, so I was able to enjoy life with my special Greg here. We packed our surfboards and stuff in my pretty little car and headed north, up the Pacific Coast Highway towards Malibu. It was awesome there, beautiful nice weather, no one in the water, a lonely lifeguard tower and some good waves. So we went into the water, which isn‘t that warm anymore, but hey, we got balls:-) Surfing starts to get better and better, I made it a few times up on my board and caught my longest ride ever. Greg is also doing better, even with the shortest shortboard of all time:-D
The plan was to get to Travis Barkers Famous Store, but sadly we lost the adress, we had no idea where to go. So we decided to drive down to Manhatten beach to surf to the sunset. Again one of the experiences I will never forget. A great beach, a pier and the sunset and me, surfing directly beside the pier seeing the sun go down...look at the picture and you will know what I‘m talking about!!!
Time again to get out of the water. We went home to shower hot hot hot and left for Griffith Park. Before, we stopped at the shopping mall near my house and did some shopping for ourselves and gregs family. The drive to Griffith Park should turn out to not be that easy. My navigation system turned completely crazy, the guy told me to drive up roads which don‘t even exist hehe! But yeah, it was no big deal, cause we drove some little streets up the hills with a view completely unbelievable and insane houses - just wow!!!! Awesome! Finally we made it up the hill to Griffith Park, which is an observatory on top of the hills of LA, with a great view at the Hollywood Sign and over whole Los Angeles. Just take a look at the pics below and you will see how mindblowing this view is!!! Sadly we lost a lot of time driving there and so we only had a couple of minutes left to enjoy the view, but believe me it last! Time to head home to go sleeping cause friday was also supposed to be a long day!!!
7am: Ringeldidingeldiding! The alarm went down, both again tired as hell but ready to hit the road down to San Diego Baby!!! For breakfast we went to IHop, the international house of pancakes. I had some Banana-Strawberry-Pans....dude!!! Delicious as f***! :-)
After that great morning meal which almost let our stomaches burst we went to Newport Beach. For me as a big OC California Fan a must see hahahaha! Sadly the place isn‘t exactly the beach and pier they‘re shooting the series but dude! Who cares?!?! It was great there, a lot of surfers in the water, some really really nice beach house you definitely could spend your last days...We drove through the streets of NPBeach, looked at the houses, cars and boats and thought, wow, how nice can a place probably be?!?! Newport Beach is definitely one of my favourite towns here in beautiful California. (The one with the blue marquee is my one :-)
Next stop San Diego, but wait, a sign showing to Laguna Beach...alrighty! Lets go there we said! And again, the drive down there, just amazing. The landscape here is sooo beautiful. All the palm trees, the green fields, the ocean and the beautiful houses....paradise! I think in Laguna Beach we probably were the oldest and cheapest car, haha, no wonder, but yeah, a lot of Porsches, Ferraries and Escalades. Seems to be the home of the rich and the famous;-)
Wow, this is probably the longest blog entry ever, not yet finished and worth to spend a couple of more words. Next stop San Diego! As we drove down there, the colors turned from a beautiful green to brown...seems like the mexican border isn‘t that far away any more...:-) We stopped at a surf outlet and I bought some nice stuff for surfing and a new backpack - shopping here is soo sweet:-) After a quick stop at downtown San Diego we went to the famous Pacific Beach to surf some waves. And they were awesome, probably head high ones, with a good break. Paddling out was again the hardest part of the session. Its soo exhausting to get throught the breaking waves, always pushing you back to the beach or ripping you of your surfboard. But yeah, I got to say, surfing gets better and better. I caught some really high ones and rode 3 or 4 completely till the beach stopped me! It‘s such a great feeling to see the wave coming, paddel in, stand up on your tiny board and ride for 10 secs only with the power of the wave. Greg also caught some and had a lot of fun.
For the evening I had some tickets for a show at the house of blues. All time Low, a great pop punk band stopped there with the Glamour Kills tour. The venue was just awesome, a huge building with a restaurant, a bar and a nice concert room. All styled like you imagine an old blues club, great! As we already had recognized the whole day, San Diego girls are very very pretty, and that shouldn‘t change at night:-) May the age went down to mid teenagers but yeah, still a lot of hotties around:-) So as you can imagine me and Special Greg had a lot of fun and the bands were great! The main act, All time low was funny as hell. The singer seemed to be drunk or on dope or something. Kidding all the time but still singing sooo good! Check out the video below:
So guys, that should be it for today. I had a couple of awesome days with my dearest Greg! It was sooo great to have him here. I will miss him, but I‘m sure he will also miss Cali!!! Dude come back whenever you want to!!!
There is one thing left I want to say, I skyped with a good friend earlier this night and for us as real men it was kind of emotional and I recognized one thing again. You don‘t need tons of „friends“, the only thing you need are a handfull of real close buddies you love - and I definitely got em! You guys know who I‘m talking about. Thank you all so much for being there, I miss you and we will have a great time again soon! Keep things going crazy at home for me! Miss you guys, you‘re awesome!!!
