Grit's move

We used to take part in a German Stammtisch, which was a weekly meeting of people who wanted to speak German together, mostly foreigners who wanted to improve their language skills. It was organized by our friend Grit, who is from Jena, and who was doing her Master's at the time in German as a second language. She's now teaching at Cornell, but was back for a while to visit this summer. During this time, she moved all her stuff from her old apartment in Weimar to storage at her parents place, and wanted some help with some of the bigger stuff. As such, Jeremi and some others were called upon to carry some things, while I, being pregnant, and our friend from France, Marie, who had twins in March, were invited to start the garden party early at her parents' house. Here we all are after the moving was done, enjoying a nice afternoon and some food in her parents' garden.
The garden was lovely, with koi swimming in the pond...
...and the family's parrot listening carefully in the background, so he could collect new sounds. (He's quite talkative, and can imitate all sorts of things.)
Here I was checking out Marie's twins, Antonin and Marjane, to have some idea what we'll be in for...