Wrapping up in Deutschland

A few more pictures from our visit in Germany:


We had good visits with all of Samuel's aunts and cousins. Last post we saw Aunt Marion and (in the video) Aunt Sabine. Today we see Aunt Regina and Aunt Margrid.

We wish Aunt Regina a Happy Birthday today on the 26th. Ironically, the picture of her was taken when she came over for P's birthday party on the 23rd, which was done up in full-family banquet style with particularly abundant deserts.


A few days before Christmas we also had a side trip to Nürnberg and Stuttgart. We saw a sign at the Staatstheater with a familiar title at the head pronouncing this season's premieres. We also stayed in a beautiful suburb (Fürth) courtesy of our friend Anja Schaller.



And finally, for all of you junkies out there, another video in honor of tomorrow's marathon 17 1/2 hour flight from Frankfurt to Seattle with "Ride" themed music.

Frohe Weihnachten & Merry Christmas!

Happy holidays, everyone!
Greetings from Germany, where we've had lovely, snowy, candlelit atmosphere...


...seasonal family music-making...


...trees, gifts and little boys...

Here's a video of Samuel's cousins Pauline and Jakob opening presents on Heiliger Abend (Christmas Eve).


We're "flattening" the movies in quicktime which should make them work better. Let us know if they still don't work properly.

Anyway, until next time, be well!

Kleines Familientreffen mit Goethe

Ja, ich weiss... lange ist es her, dass ich den letzten Eintrag geschrieben habe... mea culpa.
Am 8. Dezember gab es ein halb-spontanes kleines Familientreffen im Goethe-Institut Boston mit Oma Barbara, Onkel Tom und Peter, Karola und Samuel.



















Der Ort unseres Treffens war günstig gewählt: ganz in der Nähe von Peters alter Stammkneipe.


Dort hat es Samuel aber nicht so gut gefallen, also hat er sich schonmal auf den Heimweg gemacht.


Das war's schon wieder für heute. Bis bald!

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The gist would be: Yes, she knows. K has been slow doing posts but she did want to note a spontaneous family get-together when Samuel's Oma Barbara and Uncle Tom joined PK&S for a concert of K's music at Boston's Goethe Institute (spelled in German without an 'e'...and I don't mean Goeth.) Afterwards S and P went to the old watering hole.

Here's where things get sketchy. I think we're supposed to infer that Samuel got into some sort of heated disagreement having to do with a misunderstanding about Samuel Adams and then left the bar in a huff. It's not clear what happened to the critical part of the story though. I think the blog editors we hired were trying to keep the lead copy under 80 words for some reason. (Incidentally, I hope those editors get paid by the story and not with a flat monthly fee.)