Tanja Visits Heidi in NYC (July 2008)

My dear friend Tanja came for a visit to NYC. We dined at Tao in Manhattan (it is an awesome restaurant, with an Asian theme, inclusive of a huge Buddha statue, Chinese calligraphy scrolls decorating the ceiling, stone and bamboo themes). Highly recommend this establishment. The pictures shown were all taken by Tanja...we had a marvelous time together.

We also found a scrumptious Vietnamese restaurant, adjacent to the theatre where we saw the funny and adorable Broadway play called Boeing! Boeing!.

Habitat for Humanity, 07 May 2008

On this Wednesday, NYCEA/D participated in an HfH (Habitat for Humanity) event on Roosevelt, Long Island. It was nice to work together knowing that we were helping others. I do not think most of us should quit our day jobs to enter the construction industry, but we did a good job - so we were told. Gabriele and I were happy to lend a hand, while Ingrid and June led the charge with the staple guns. Jan-Philippe Wimmer really got into the swing. Stefan Wiegmann doubted that he would live in a house built by Lufthansa. In his orange shirt Ricardo Bonnet was most obvious. Steve Hargin (in his navy T-shirt) and other NYCEA/D team members did keep busy wrapping the house in Tyvek. The staple gun and the hammer were the most popular tools of the day, allowing some to get out their frustration.

Homage to Elvis Presley, February 2008

In February 2008 I went with my new Lufthansa department (NYCEA/D) in East Meadow (back in the States, as I had transferred back to New York effective 01 January 2008) on a teambuilding event to Memphis, Tennessee. Memphis is the birthplace of rockabilly, rock 'n roll and the blues. I truly enjoyed Memphis and all that it has to offer. Graceland and Beale Street, along with the Memphis Zoo and Sun Studio, were the main highlights. Heimzwerg accompanied me. Annette, Heimzwerg and I had fun touring Sun Studio. The photograph above of Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, Elvis Presley and Johnny Cash is one of the most famous in all of rock n' roll history - it was taken on 04 December 1956. B.B. King is yet another famous Memphis personality. I highly recommend a visit to Memphis, Tennessee - it is a living piece of history, along with being lots of fun.