This That and Some Other News

The iPad debacle has been sorted….yeah!!!

Birgit took me to my Apple appointment , with an Apple technician, who is called a ‘genius’…no kidding!  The appointment is with a ‘genius’ at the ‘genius bar’ inside the Apple Store.

The store was positively heaving with people clearly no economic down turn in there, or perhaps such good marketing that the addiction to yet the latest Apple product supersedes the down turn?!?

Anyway, after stripping off various layers of clothing Birgit and I made our selves comfortable and let the genius, who was called Mario, get to work.  He listened to the issues we described, looked at the storage situation and then made the diagnosis that we had to many photos on there.  Luckily Marek had already securely stored all our 1668 photos and short videos from China on his PC, so Mario proceeded to delete them (yes, manually one by one!  That could be a suggested change for the iPad 4…).

And…da da everything was working just fine after that!!

At this point I would really like to thank Marek who had taken considerable time two nights before to check out the issue and Stefan, Steffi’s husband, who looked at the iPad for us last night.  I really appreciate the time you guys have spent with me and the iPad, not to mention the yummy waffles that Steffi made to shorten the wait!  Such good service, perhaps we should suggest waffles to enhance the Genius Bar at Apple, too!?!

Thank you so much for your time with me at the Genius Bar, Birgit.  I might just have to make this up to you and take you to a real bar without any geniuses.

Mario was very nice though and we did get to meet his wife, too who popped in to give him instructions for later on that evening…!

So, we are back on line and Mario even looked at the ‘photos onto blog’ scenario for me and will give this a shot in a minute…

In other news…my cry for help for warm winter children shoes has been answered!  The lovely Pascale in Heilbronn found not one, but two pairs of boys’s shoes in size 35 for us!  Thank you so very much, let’s just hope their feet aren’t growing before we get to you, with all the good eating they are doing up here!

And then this morning Birgit took the boys and I to the Kinderflohmarkt (children’s flee market, which is like a massive garage sale in a church hall) and I found a pair of really great girl’s boots in 36, well looked after and all  for Euro 3!!!!!  That might just be the very best bargain I have ever made.  The boots not only fit her but she will be able to wear them in Auckland still for our winter next year.  Not that she will need them really, but they do look good, which has to count for something!

Birgit bought a nice padded vest intended for Jana, but it was too short, which she then gifted to Tessa who looks great in it and she loves it.  So Tessa was a lucky girl today.

Birgit and I also took the children to the library and we walked out with enormous piles of books.  Some in German (yes Karin, I know!) but some in English, as again we were lucky and the library had a reasonable amount of English books there, including “Die drei ???”  Anyone German reading this blog remember reading these books when they were young?? I do!

It’s about those three friends, one of whom has a dad who runs a demolition yard, and so they built a secret hut/hide out somewhere on the yard and from that main base they solve detective mysteries.  At the end of each chapter are three clues, marked with three ??? and the race is on to see if you as the reader can solve the mystery before the three friends.  Apparently Alfred Hitchcock proof read the very first book that was written in this series as the author was a friend of his.

It seems so long ago that I wrote the last blog that I am almost sure to have forgotten something, but I think I will leave it at this as I now will attempt to upload two photos to go with the blog….

Wish me luck!

Cheers
Tanja