Friday Sketchdump #52
After quite a long time, here's a long sketchdump to make up for it!
Stuff me and Henrieke drew on the plane.
and this happens when Henrieke tries to ink random messy lines I draw.
learning from Carl Barks
concept for a ferret costume.
Cameroon Trip: 19.02. – 23.02.
Well, I got sick and was simply too lazy to write anything. This post just concludes the report.
If you would like to see more pictures, feel free to contact me.
Cameroon trip: 18.02.
Didn't have a hard time getting up at 3:30am as sleeping on wooden planks isn't exactly comfortable.
It was of course pitch dark ouside, so we started our trip equipped with 3 flashlights. This time only one guide went with us.
The hut was on 2800 meters, so we still had about 1300 meters to go.
One awesome thing was this, where I have no idea what you would call it in english:
That wasn't the sun, but lots of flashes and 30-second exposure. Taken at about 4:30 in the morning.
Cameroon trip: 17.02.
Got up at 6 and went to Buea, the town at the base of Mt. Cameroon where we met out guides.
We had one Guide per person, making us a group of 12 as Yaya also joined us.
View from Buea
Doesn't look at high as it is, but in fact it's 4095 meters, and this photo is taken from 1100 meters above sea level.
Cameroon trip: 16.02.
We went to the market in the morning to get some supplies for our trip to the peak of Mt. Cameroon:
Then to the Limbe Wildlife Centre.
Lots of stuff to see there:
Cameroon trip: 15.02.
Slept until 1pm and we all went to the beach.
I didn't really expect that they would have such an awesome beach there, the Sea was warm and they even had a beachvolleyball court.
We started playing and soon a few locals joined too.
After that everyone was hungry of course, so we went to a small restaurant to get some (really good) food.
Stephan, Edith, Dad, "the cook", half of Yaya, Andreas having dinner.
Cameroon trip: 14.02.
Flight to Douala was okay even though we had 1 hour delay.
The view was fantastic, especially over the Sahara.
The airport.. well.. had it's own charme:
Douala International Airport
My father, Edith and Jaja picked us up at the airport and we had a 1,5 hour drive to Limbe, partly nice roads, partly really bumpy.
Everyone except me went to a nightclub as I was desperate for some sleep after being in 5 countries in 2 days and hardly getting any sleep at all.
USA Trip: 11.02.
Got up at half past 10 without any stress, luckily the flight was going at 18:35.
Went to 5&Diner with Scott for one last true american breakfast. The restaurant was totally in 50s style, pretty awesome. One thing I'm going to miss is that most restaurants have pretty awesome theming as entertainment is a big part of dining experience in the U.S.
Got some nice waffles:
Blurry Scott
John gave us a ride to the airport where we had to wait quite a while, luckily I found the first Starbucks I actually liked. There are tons of Starbucks in the U.S. but they don't really have that nice atmosphere and almost every single one lacks comfy couches. This one had couches though and played Jazz, so we sat there for about 2 hours and drew cartoons.
Had a nice flight to London-Gatwick and alot of space since the plane wasn't full at all. Flight to Amsterdam was also nice.
Met up with Michael in Den Haag after we arrived and finally got to get some sleep again, jetlag feels bad...
Thanks so much for hosting me! It's awesome to know so many extremely nice people all over the world. 
Anyway, this is the end of my USA Trip report. Whoever may read this, I hope you enjoyed.
I'll only have s short stay in Vienna and then I'm in the air again, on my way to Cameroon for 10 days of adventure.
USA Trip: 10.02.
Since Lon was busy, Randy took us to Animal Kingdom. Since he also works for Disney we could also get in for free.
We went to see the "Festival of the Lion King" Show, which was totally amazing! It featured acrobatics, awesome performers and huge puppets. The park was far from busy this day, so we got to ride Expedition Everest again with no waiting time at all.
We met Dan, a friend of Randy who also works in the park, he showed us some neat details about the park.
artificial Tree of Life
After that we went to a coffeeshop where some local people hang out on tuesday nights, had a nice chat with some people, a good sandwich and a cheesecake.
It's still amusing how many people mistake Austria with Australia. I should have worn my "no kangaroos in austria" shirt.
John picked us up again and we went to his place since he lives more near to the airport. Chris came over for a bit too and we had a nice evening.
Packing was a bit hard since I bought lots of stuff.
Cameroon trip: 13.02.
Totally tired and jetlagged I managed to pack my stuff together and went to the airport again with my brother Stephan.
After a short flight and the worst food I ever got on a plane we slept in the smallest Hotel rooms in the world. We found out once again that french people don't really care about writing stuff in english, even on an international airport.
USA Trip: 9.02.
Lon got us into Epcot again, where we went onto the test track ride. Kind of boring.
Also we went back onto the three caballeros ride just to see the awesome animation again:
Also saw the Nemo ride and then went to Magic Kingdom.
We saw the cheesiest show ever:
Splash mountain at sunset
Also went on Space mountain right before the park closed so we didn't have any waiting line.
The fireworks in Magic Kingdom was pretty awesome, right after it we hurries to get to Epcot where we saw even bigger fireworks, sadly I wasn't able to take any good shots.
Since we had to wait for Lon to pick us up, we just walked around in the park when everyone else had left already, which gave us toe opportunity to take some nice long exposure shots:
Viking Pavillon
Epcot at night
USA Trip: 8.02.
Lon drove us to the studios in the morning and we got to see what Disney looked like backstage, AWESOME!
Very creative atmosphere there, and we got to see really neat concept art. Lons job is basically to come up with ideas for attractions and designs for certain areas for the parks.
As it was sunday, hardly anyone was there, but still it was awesome seeing how everything works backstage.
Of course I don't have photos so don't ask. 
Went to animal kingdom this time and went on "Expedition Everest".
I didn't know much about it, and it was better that way since that coaster has a few neat surprises.
With 50 minutes this was the longest wait so far, but the whole waiting line was themed, part of it was a museum with partly real and partly fake artifacts fitting the rides theme.
The ride was a total blast!
also fish.
The park itself was also really well-themed, and we just went around for a bit and looked at animals until Lon picked us up and took us to Randys house again for another Show of FPS.
It was totally funny again, surprise guest was Samuel Conway, he's a scientist and Chairman of Anthrocon, a 4000-people con in Pittsburgh. A totally funny and unique guy.
He was staying at Lons place too this night, so he gave us a ride as Lon had to leave earlier as he also does cleanup work for the newest Disney movie.
We watched Shaolin Soccer, even though I've seen it before, it's still totally hilarious
USA Trip: 7.02.
Chris (Chorca) picked us up in the morning and we went to Universal Studios. Finally some megacoasters!
Thank god it was off-season, so the wait for the first ride (Hulk coaster) was only 15 minutes.
And it was AWESOME!
Hulk Coaster
Also saw the Spiderman movie ride, which was totally impressing, even the waiting line had awesome theming.
Next stop was probably the best coaster in the park, dueling dragons.
It's a synchronized coaster, but not symmetric. We chose the blue one since it had more loops. As expected it was totally fun!
Dueling dragons.
They had an awesome Dr. Suess part too:
Went on some other rides which were great fun too and eventually met up with Lon, John, Scott, Randy, and a bunch of other people at Universal City Walk and had dinner at Bubba Gumps, a Restaurant that specializes in Shrimps.
I got "Shrimper's Heaven".
VEEEEEERY TASTY
Went to the Movie Theatre across the Street to see Coraline in 3D. I never watched a full Movie in 3d so it gave me a slight headache, and the movie itself was... very weird. I won't spoil, but I can say it wasn't that impressing at all and the story wasn't deep either.
After that we went to hang out at Lons place again, got to experience the wonders of Cable TV ("man vs. food") on probably the biggest plasma TV I've ever seen in someones home.
USA Trip: 6.02.
(random seagull)
Scott drove us to Epcot in the morning where we met up with Lon who signed us in.
Went directly to magic kingdom with the monorail, which looked really old but was probably really futuristic 30 years ago. First thing we were basically forced to see was the parade, as you can't really move when they block all the streets there.
It was nice and totally cheesy.
Got a fastpass for Splash mountain and got some really greasy cheeseburger for lunch.
Splash mountain
Big thunder mountain was nice too.
The theming of the park was pretty awesome, but the merchandise was.. meh.. all stores had the same crap, but at least I saved money this way.
Other rides we went on: Robinson Treehouse, Stitch's Escape, enchanted Tiki room, haunted house, etc..
At all pretty nice stuff, too bad there were no megacoasters.
Went to Downtown Disney in the evening and met up with Lon and John for Dinner in the T-Rex restaurant.
I've gotten used to themed restaurants already, but T-Rex is the most extreme one I saw yet.
Basically they had loads of animatronic dinosaurs all over the place, complete with (pretty loud) sounds and every 10 minutes extinction happened which was basically a lightshow and more noise.
It was fun though.
big mammoth
Didn't do much after that except hanging out at Lons place.