Farewell weekend in Miami!

Hi folks,

today I will go back to Germany, my stuff is already packed so I am ready
The last days here have been awesome with lots of crazy impressions:
Starting with the “All Agency” Sapient Event last Friday where every team presents the latest creative projects and campaigns in this chilling TGIF atmosphere having a few beers and pizza!

Sapients "All Agency" Event in the DC

Chilling and listening to the latest news!

The Media girls: Jessica, Melissa, Mellissa again and Yesenia

Starting saturday morning having Breakfast with Mira in the Hotel and after that we went to North Beach!
A realy nice spot, not to crowded and the weather was realy crazy! Heavy rain storms passing left and right with flashes and thunder but luckily in our area it was not realy bad….

Starting the weekend like this....

Crazy clouds passing by - it's raining over there far far away!

Thunderstorms are coming closer!

Posing at North Beach - real Mustang girls!

Unfortunately it started also to rain and we had to leave – but not before our quick & dirty fotoshoot with this fancy Ford Mustang! That provocates a crazy chorus of horns….. tstststst, american boys!!

Almost time to say good bye …..

Holá todos,

unfortunaely today is my last day here in the Miami office – time flies by here so quickly, it feels like I just arrived yesterday! So I have to grab all the new and interesting media insights and tricky bridgetrack skills together and bring it back – with all the other more or less material stuff I also bought here – to Germany!
There is definitly a lot to import from this very exciting, crazy and interesting 4 week exchange trip!!!

I would like to thank everybody you was more or less involved in making this great experience happen and letting me smell this american spirit of Sapient Interactive and Media in specific.

A very big big thank you to the whole media team here in Miami who gave me a very warm welcome, this bunch of online media input, trainings and sessions who let me participate in meetings and nice vendor events and gave me the important local recomendations to explore Miami’s beach-, night- and shopping-life!! Thank you soooooo much It was awseome beeing part of the Miami media team!!!

Here are some pictures from the last days – luckily there will follow some more due to there are a few hopefully sunny days left!! I will have a tough schedule for the realy last weekend here
Hope to see you soon at home and you guys here as well somewhere and somehow!!

Driving home fotoshoot!

Coral Gables lovely and exclusiv neighborhood!!

Cruising home from Palmetto Office

Tarzan & Jane would love this trees!

Jungle like alleys!

Our last night ride through Ocean Drive at South Beach! I took ages finding the right and not illegal parking slot but finaly we arrived at the trendy Skybar at the Shore Club! An amazing Hotel with a cosy outside bar and pool area – to be honest we expected a fancy place somewhere close to the sky on the xyz floor with a perfect view but at the end it was on the ground floor! But we enjoied it anyway! Had a tasty dinner at Nobu - a great japanese restaurant!

Cruising fancy and crowded Ocean Drive!

Ocean Drive at a Thursday night!

Having dinner at Nobu!

Nobus special Miso soup - delicious!

And walking back to pick up our car we passed this beautifull place – the Setai Hotel and Restaurant! It’s sooooo amazing …..Spending a night there you just need at least 1000 bucks….so let’s go there next time
That’s hard to top, but we will see what’s coming next at this last weekend here in the sunshine state – acutally it’s raining ;-(

Women & Wine Tasting Parties

Hi wine lovers,

here in the US beeing part of “new world” – outside the traditional wine-growing areas of Europe like Argentina, Australia, Canada, Chile, New Zealand, South Africa and Mexican as well – I got the chance to refine my wine senses. Mira, Jessica, Kiran and I joined this exclusive wine tasting seminar by sommelier Cynthia Betancourt at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Downtown. It was so funny sitting and watching all these wine loving american women who were looking for professional tips and tricks for their own “home wine parties” which will for sure come very soon!!

It was an amazing experience drinking a Sauvignon Blanc out of a wrong glass the Burgundy one- a totaly different smell and taste, awefull! So take care about your glassware next time – it makes such a big difference! And one more learning from last night’s wine session: using a plastic cup every wine tastes realy bad no matter if it’s an expensive Chardonay or cheap Pinot Grigio!! Keep this in mind for your next picnic

Mira, Kiran & Jessica

Some appetizer to keep the taste sense pure!

Skyline after thunderstorms and our wine tasting

Some Impressions from Downtown…

Hi there,

had a crazy appointment at RikRak yesterday evening with Massimo – an awesome italian hairstylist for sure – to get this fancy and cool miami hairstyle Was first a little bit scared because of my poor hairstyling specific vocabulary – is it just a trim or a real hair cut?? no idea – but finaly we decided that it is something in between! So I drove to Downtown Miami passing lots of skyscrapers where the finance guys are making the big big $ and € transactions and the waterfront too!

Downtown Miami - Brickell Avenue

Downtown Miami - Finance District

RikRak at Brickell Avenue

Downtown Miami - Waterfront

Downtown Miami - Waterfront

And now I would like to present you my new and fancy hairstyling:

PRIOR

Yesterday's snapshot

AFTER

Today's snapshot