Rosenstein Museum

One activity that we did while Destiny and her family were here was we spent an afternoon at Rosenstein Museum.

Here are the girls outside the museum hanging out with the Lion.  Ashlyn was terrified of the Lion she kept telling us that her bum would hurt if she sat on the Lion.

Inside the musuem they had stuffed, perseved animals everywhere.  There were glass boxes with wildlife scenes, individual animals, diplays of animals groups, and hands on nature exhibits.  The kids had lots of fun running around and looking at all the animals.  The best displays for the kids were any that had buttons and need to be pushed. There was also a rainforest room with a treehouse that the kids loved.

Kindergarten Start Fall 2012

Here is a picture of Sydney on her very first day of Kindergarten, January 10, 2011.  In Germany kids start kindergarten with 3 years old and have 3 years of Kindergten before starting the 1st grade.

Here is Sydney's latest picture from Kindergarten September 18, 2012

Sydney & Destiny

Destiny and her family came back to Germany in August to visit - Sydney couldn't wait for them to get here.  

 Here are the girls together at Destiny's grandparents garden - they loved playing together on the trampoline. 

We spent an afternoon at Killesberg Park.  This is a huge park with playground, tons of flower gardens, a train that runs through the park, animals (flamingos, llamas, goats, pigs, donkeys and horses), and much more.

Here are the girls and their matching dresses. Sydney insisted that they needed matching dresses again this year for Destiny's visit.

Hard to believe it's been an entire year since these pictures.  These two have a very special friendship that exisits even when they live on two different continents.

Vacation - Part 3

After 6 days with Oma and Opa we made our way to Jahnsdorf.  In Janhsdorf lives David's Opa, aunt and uncle, their 3 kids and their families, and another aunt.  The girls love coming here. The girls love going to visit Sarah, Vivien, and Samuel.  From the minute Syd took her shoes off we rarely saw her without Vivien.

We had great weather so we went swimming several times.

We went to a huge playground that entertained the kids for hours.

The girls had fun doing anything and everthing that involved their cousins.

Saying good-bye was easy this time cause the girls knew they would see their cousins again in a month.

Vacation - Part 2

After visiting Ur-Oma we headed on to David's parents.

We found a pirate playground and had some fun.

There was a family day at the supermarket there with tons of jumping castles and cotton candy - which neither girl really liked.

There was lots of playing in the water by Oma and Opa. They put the pool inside thier winter garden so it was always pool weather.  The water wasn't overly warm but that didn't stop them from splashing around.

Vacation - Part 1

We started our vacation by heading off to David's hometown to visit his his Oma. She is still very fit for 84 and lives by herself.  

 Here is Sydney and her great-grandmother(Ur-Oma)

 Here are the girls practising their English with Ur-Oma.

Saying Good-Bye. Auf Wiedersehen.

Ritter Sport Factory

After a warm week of 30 Celcius, Saturday was cold and rainy. So what do you do on a cold and rainy day - go and visit a local Chocolate Factory.

This is the kids favorite exhibt in the Ritter Sport Factory. Pay attention to the truck leaving the factory.

The truck leaves the factory drives to the front and dumps out a chocolate for you. Ashlyn is waiting rather patiently here.

Sydney watching her Chocolate make it's way to her hands.  Needless to say this exhibt was visited more then once by our girls.

Here is a Cacao Tree that Ashlyn enjoyed running around.  We also got little bags with Cacao nuts - but they never made it in a photo.

This here is a board with various advertisments over the decades.

The girls got more chocolate from the cashier in the shop on the way out - this is probably the 4th chocolate bar each.

Here are 2 very happy girls with the chocolate we bought at the shop - 2 kilos Ritter Sport Chocolate makes for a great rainy Saturday.