germany

Lennon showed me his sock in the car- apparently, my sewing repairs no longer held up!

Vielen Dank fur alles. Sie Sind sehr gute Freunde!
We loved your town, your food, your home, your school- but most importantly- we love you guys! You all are looking happy and healthy. Good stuff!
Aaron, thank you (again) for giving us your room – you are one lucky kid!
Claudia, keep rockin’ your little orange car and breaking hearts all around town – you little hottie! 🙂
Becky, keep being so sweet, friendly and funny! You have an incredible sense of humor.
Liebe! Liebe! Liebe!

This was such a good time. It was so nice to get some exercise (as if we don’t get enough from the miles of walking we do every day!) The kids said their boats were slower than ours! We told them to buck up and get their little legs moving faster! Ha!

Our friends have a koi pond, a bridge, lots of green and tons of flowers right outside their back door. When it wasn’t raining, the boys loved to explore back there.
The photo is of a bouquet that M and L picked for me so I could make lots of wishes- which (of course!) I did.

From the movie “The Jungle Book”
“Oh, oobee doo
I wanna be like you
I wanna walk like you
Talk like you, too
You’ll see it’s true
I wanna be like you, oo, oo!”
The first picture is of Jesse post haircut and Maddux pre-haircut. The second picture is of Maddux with his hood up pretending he didn’t go through with his haircut. The last one is Maddux’s new ‘do which we stick up with gel. He thinks he looks like Sacha (Kljestan) – our buddy we visited in Brussels. I think both my boys look pretty cute. Lennon said he wanted his curls cut off- I said, “no way!!!”

The Hamburg Rathaus is the city hall of Hamburg. It was built from 1886 to 1897, but was destroyed in a fire in 1842. It took almost 44 years to build a new one. Construction was completed in 1897 and cost about 80 million euros. Wow!
During World War II, the city was severely damaged by British Royal Air For bombs on July 23, 1943. Reconstruction was completed in 1957.
All the photos below are taken in and around the Rathaus.

Becky and Emerson met in California when they were five years old. Becky moved to Germany about three years ago so they hadn’t seen each other. They must be real good friends because they didn’t skip a beat. They acted as if they had seen each other recently. Same with her mom, Claudia, and me. So wonderful to spend time with a good buddy.

Maddux has been wanting to go on a boat ride so badly but the weather everyplace we go has been crap. We will be patient so that when we do get on a boat- it will be glorious!

No matter where we go in the world, if there is any type of animal nearby- we will find it and stare at it for an incredibly long time. The kids loved watching these fish eat – you can see their mouths poking out of the water. Becky showed the kids that you can touch the fish, so they had lots of fun doing that. The ducks tried to snag some food but were quickly chased away.