Angelika Next weekend we will be celebrating our first wedding anniversary. We have decided to take the date of our church wedding as our official anniversary. This is mainly for the pragmatic reason that this date is engraved in our rings, providing Michael with a good memory aid. Looking back on this year, an incredible amount has happened, and somehow the year has just flown by. Naturally, we want to celebrate our anniversary accordingly. So, we are heading to the coast up north and have booked a romantic hotel with ocean view for two nights. To get up there, we will make our way through the wine region and might even do a wine tasting. A truly Californian weekend! We are definitely looking forward to it.

Our friends Sylvia and Richard, by the way, moved to Portland at the end of July because Richard started a new job there. Portland is located in the state of Oregon and is about a 10-hour drive from San Francisco. For us, it's naturally very unfortunate that they now live so far away, as spontaneous meetups are no longer possible. Sylvia and Richard's baby is due at the end of September, and Sylvia and I had already dreamed of starting our own playgroup. That's obviously not possible now.

To conclude this newsletter, I would like to entertain you with two endless stories: one of them concerns Michael's company.

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