We have another birthday in our house! Sam turns 11! This little firecracker is still our little “Sam-wee” although he’s getting bigger every day. One more year of elementary school before he goes on to middle school! I can’t believe … Continue reading
Need to press pause in our travel stories, as it’s a big day today — Gabe turns 18!!! 18! Holy Cow! That’s crazy! I met Gabe when he was 9 – so that means I have known him for double … Continue reading
Today we decided to step a bit out of Berlin and see a few areas. We first headed to the concentration camp Sachenhausen. We had been to Dachau outside of Munich with Gabe on his trip a couple of years … Continue reading
We chose to sleep in a bit today as everyone was tired and needed a bit of a break. Good thing, because we squeezed a lot in! We decided it would be a museum day; a sample of several museums. … Continue reading
We decided to take the train from Hamburg to Berlin. I love European train stations and wanted to get to enjoy taking a high speed train. We all sort of missed out on a lot of the scenery unfortunately, as … Continue reading
Lübeck was definitely in our plans, as that is where Granny spent her early years. We decided at the last minute that rather than take the train, as originally planned, we rented a car. We felt this would give us … Continue reading
Rise and shine! Isn’t getting up at 4:30 in the morning what you want to do on vacation? It seems many of our vacations include that! We were up early, as we had to catch an early flight to Hamburg, … Continue reading
Just to warn you, these next few posts may be long as in addition to our travel log, I need to include some family history:) One of the reasons I even started blogging was the last conversation I ever had … Continue reading
So I know that whizzing through some cities at record speed is not everyone’s cup of tea. And while I would love to leisurely stroll through the streets and spend weeks soaking in the culture, we work with what we … Continue reading
We sure know how to pack it all in. 29,000 steps and we also took the train and the metro several times! We got up really early this morning as we knew we had a busy day ahead of us. … Continue reading