Hi ther, long time i posted here. Well as you casn see Maddy was faster than me agin and had her homepage already updated. Let us begin at the start. In autum Maddy mentioned it would be fine to visit a chrismas market in Germany.i suggested easiest would be to stay at my place and do a round trip to a few of them. As you might know, germans are very fond of christmas stuff and have this kind of markets in nearly every town. I did a little research in the daily paper and made some suggestions to Maddy.lol, ther even was a ranking which market is the best done by the visitors. After a lot of chat the day of the visit arrived and i head to Köln to pick her up. Everything fine so far. We choose a park and ride place to meet near the Zoo Hmm, as i got there, there was a small taxi pick-up zone but no park and ride Thx god for cell phones we agreed to the final bus parking space at the Köln fair grounds, i got there without problems but only empty coaches there. Text on my phone: I am at the mainstation near the Dom , wrote maddy. after a littlehassle with a civil cop near the station Maddy jumped in my car and we are of to the first market. Bergisch- Gladbach, my dad suggested this market cause a special vendor there has figurines from the same serial as the Krippe he has at home. It is a very nice market, not too big but it was shared with the daily market with food and other stuff, not in the same space but but on the same place. We walked a little around and Maddy suggested breakfast, so a small bakery with some tables and chairs in there was it. After a nice first snack we hit the market again and i saw anual mugs for gluehwein so we got one wine for maddy and a kakao for me, bad luck, we both got a mug form the same year, i walked to a stand and asked for a mug from a different year and the guy there changed it to the actual . On to next destination : Hilden, home of my favorit toy store... Well Maddy spend a few bucks there and took some pics and out to the local christmas market there. Very nice along the high street and of to the car again. Next place was Essen. It is one of the larger markets but not so well known from tourists, it takes place on 3 big places connected with streets full of market stands. This time we got again a different mug and Maddy thought to look out for bike maps for her next summer trip, bad luck there, they had not THE MAP Maddy was looking for. It was dark now and we saw a lot very nice light instalations ( look at the maddy homepage) the tree and the flat light signs. we got a little tired but i know a small market on the way home. Last stop was Mettmann, only 54 huts but well arranged round the old church. We had some Reibekuchen (potatoe cookies from raw potatoe) and relaxed a little . By the way Maddy changed shoes cause she had a cramp in one. Finaly we head home, my mom had prepared a nice salad and some other stuff and a tea for Maddy. My mom ? yes! I have only a very small flat and parents still have my old room with a bed in there. After we told a lot storys to parents we finaly hit the sac , i went over to my place and told there in chat what happened on the first day of Maddys visit, around midnight i went to bed too and looked forward to the next day...

From the newspaper GenralAnzeiger 2008-01-28 18 year old Bicylist hurt after collisopn with a car. Right of way not observed Kris Aheweiler(sinn) One 18 years old cyclist from the Kreis Ahrweiler was severely injured in an accident in Sinzing in the night before Saturday As the police reported , did the cyclist not observe the right of way fo the car where the road connected to Haberstasse in Herental.. The car made a toal break but could not avoid the collosion. The cyclist was brought to the hospital.

Just an FYI, the OFFICIAL GabyZone Galleries are back, and can be accessed using the menus on the left hand side of this page. -HUGGLES- Piper P.S. Please remember to report any errors in the forums!

Sorry for the down time, but we are back now. -HUGGLEs- Piper

Hello everyone.... This is just a little bit of info about the gallery...

The Gallery has been online for viewing photos, but not adding photos, since the last attack. The reason it couldn't take new photos is because it needed to be upgraded to be more secure, and I haven't gotten that far yet.

Unfortunately, due to the fact that people continue to try uploading pictures and failing, and trying again, I have completely dissabled the gallery untill further notice.

-HUGS-
Piper

Well.... We're back... We're on a NEW NEW server.... A brand new, custom configured/custom built Dell Poweredge server.... Short story, Alanis died, and I Just couldn't fix her... N-E-Ways, we're up, and if you'd like more information on what happened, visit: http://www.storysite.org/cgi-bin/crysboard/crysboard.cgi?action=display&num=27492 -HUGGLES- Piper

Hi Everyone! This message is to let you know several things....

1. We are on a NEW server... Well... This server (ALANIS) has been around and running sites for a bit (239 Day Uptime and still growing [Knock on CRT]) but GabyZone, since it's conception, has been running on Trance, and sadly it's time for Trance to retire from the hosting business...


2. The Gallery is back up....


3. I have spent the evening, after finishing the server transfer, re-enabling the gabyzone gallieries, and upgrading the gallery software. this software adds a host of new features, and seems to be running a WHOLE lot faster... That is partially because of the new server, and partially because I had been neglecting updates on the gallery software.


4. I also completed this morning, upgrading the MD-Pro software that runs the GabyZone.. This upgrade includes the ability to make you read an image, and insert a code before posting to the site.... PLEASE don't make me turn that feature on,

My Sisters and I
Part Four ‘A’
By Angel O’Hare

Sorry to say this, but thanks to someone, whom decided to exploit a potentially VERY dangerous bug in the GabyZone's Gallery Script.... The Galleries are currently offline till I can find the time to go in and fix the error... It's getting to be really sad... The fact that we are having to make so many restrictive changes on this site, because people don't want to play nice...

Just remember this.. If you came here, you prolly wanted something we offered... if you abuse it, it will be here no longer.

-Piper

As many of you may have read in the forums, there have been some changes. While guests are still allowed to visit and view the site, to post in the forums, you now need to be a registered user. If you would like more information, use the link below to read Stacy's forum post.