Saturday, October 10, 2009

Meet Manfred

I've been meaning to make this post for awhile and figured it was better late than never for the world to meet Manfred Nink. A few weeks before Nate came home our friends Tyler and Stephanie moved in with Reese and I for their last 10 days before they moved back to the States. One night we decided we would go to Trier for sushi, this happened to be day 120 of Nate's deployment and at the time he had no news as to when he was coming home so I wasn't having the best day. When we drove over to Trier there were political posters up everywhere for the upcoming elections and we were having a lot of fun trying to decide who was our favorite. The signs all looked almost exactly the same except for the person on it and everyone seemed to have the same odd not quite smile on their face. We immediately decided against the red haired lady and as we were discounting the smirky guy because he looked shady our eyes caught sight of Manfred Nink. It was awesome as Tyler and I both saw his poster at the same time and became smitten with the fact that he was the German candidate for us. We saw a few more of his posters during our trip and as we were leaving we decided we HAD to have one. I told Tyler that if we saw another one I would pull over and just as we were leaving the city we saw one on a street sign so Tyler jumped out, grabbed Manfred, and we were off. It made me feel so young again to be participating in a sign adoption and relocation program. When we got home we made a photo story of Manfred's time with us. (Stephanie and Manfred discussing politics over breakfast) (Reese playing with Manfred) (Jakob getting in some Manfred time)

(Tyler introducing Manfred to American T.V.)

2 comments:

Abby said...

Hoorah for Manfred. "That politicin has a crazy eye.." (said of course as Brian Fellow.)
Um I didn't realize just how long you were without a hubby. Yikes. Those reunion pictures are priceless. Thank your hubby for us and thank YOU strong lady mama (and baby.)

bryce said...

kind of reminds me of someone...only he's a lot taller and skinnier than manfred...and likes short shorts...