Ohio in July

After a full day of airports and airplanes we arrived in Cleveland for the Young Composers Program where P & K were teaching for a week. Samuel survived mainly by playing with his Grandma (notice a pattern developing here?). He also hung out at faculty meetings and found inventive ways to get half-eaten food on his parents' dress clothes.


Here is the group photo, complete with one-year-old mascot.




Back at Grandma and Grandpa's house in Mt.Vernon there were lots of new toys to play with


and we took advantage of great weather to take a walk. Sam enjoyed some of it.


One of life's pleasures is certainly playing in the backyard with Grandma!

as you can see, he ultimately ventured off on his own.




"What do you mean 'DON'T PUT THAT STICK IN YOUR MOUTH', Grandma? I didn't do anything. See?"

Europa im Juli

Since we've been on the move we've been blog-negligent, but we'll try to catch up on the basic movements in a two-part July series. We began in Eberstadt at Oma and Opa's house, having a good time catching up with the family during several festive get-togethers. Unfortunately we don't have everyone photographed, but we do have a few shots. Here is Samuel playing with his cousins and his Aunt Bini and Uncle Hatti...


Samuel also likes to follow Opa around, especially when cell-phones are involved!


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Then we were on to Metz and Aix-en-Provence to get properly Frenchified.

(notice the Crepe joint! Très bien!)

As always, we wouldn't have survived without the daily care donated by Oma!!


Opa also joined us in Metz to partake in baguettes and the lovely streets.


Eventually they got us packed up and off to Luxembourg to catch a plane to the US.


So we'll pick up there next post.