My parents went to Prague and all we got were these lousy babushkas...part 2

My parents went to Prague and all we got were these lousy babushkas

We come all the way to Germany...traveled for a whole day with connections...and what do Mom and Dad do when we get here???? Ditch us and go to Prague. They drove to the Czech Republic on the autobahn (I think Mom may have had a heart attack or two) and then drove back the next day. They stayed in a cool hotel in the middle of old town and walked the city's winding streets across the King Charles bridge to Prague Castle where the President lives. Mom says it is one of the the most incredible cities she has ever seen and next time we will definitely get to go too.

Snow and castles

Hopped in the car today and drove to see Crazy King Ludwig's Neuschwanstein castle near the Alps. It is the castle they modeled Sleeping Beauty's castle after. It was huge and totally cool and he never even lived there. We walked up a lot of stairs and got to see only about 1/3 of the castle. The rest was never finished. We highly recommend seeing a castle at some point of your lives. It is mind boggling. The yellow castle was another one nearby - even older than Neuschwanstein. This was definitely one of the coolest days we have spent in Germany.

Cold as a you-know-whatski!

As you all know, we are in Germany. There are so many things to tell and so many pictures to post. Today, we went ice skating on a little lake by my friend Mara's house in Pocking. I am sure in 20 years or so people won't be able to do this anymore with global warming and all. But for this day... we were good to go...skating that is. We packed up our skates and our cookies and kinderpunch and headed to the lake for some old fashioned sledding and skating. It was so cool. Real cool - as Mom says ever since she got back from Prague - it was cold as a you-know-whatski.

Germany week 1

We tried to post this a week ago but the computer was not cooperating....

We arrived in Germany safely and now we are on day three of jet lag. We were awake from 12am to 3am last night and couldn't peel ourselves out of bed before 11:00 this morning. We are having the best time with our friends Piet and Mara and today they helped us celebrate Marlena's 5th birthday by having a birthday breakfast and walking in the snow at Ilkahohe. Then we had some hot chocolate and apfelstrudel while we warmed our toes. Yesterday we took a train to Munich and walked through the Christmas market at the town center. It was packed with people shopping and drinking something called gluhwein. Tomorrow we are going to attempt to drive ourselves to another little village about 15 minutes away. Hopefully Daddy won't do anything too crazy. We are not sure if her can even read the street signs! More to come later...

Another tooth gone and an early birthday celebration

Well, I lost another tooth the day before Thanksgiving. That's two in two weeks. At this rate, I won't have any teeth in my mouth by Christmas! On a lighter note, I celebrated my 5th birthday a bit early with my friends as I will be in Germany on my actual birthday. We went to a pottery studio with four of my school mates and painted pottery. Ava and I both picked a beautiful unicorn box. After the studio fires the boxes we can pick them up and keep them in our rooms. We can't wait to see how they turned out! Stay tuned and we will post a picture so you can see the finished product.