There’s aways a bit of nervousness, excitement and anticipation around the first day of school. Everyone is excited to see friends, see who their teachers are, see who is in their classes (more importantly) and get back into the swing … Continue reading
I think it’s a hard thing to wrap your head around the concept of teenage kids coming together from the same religious community and attending a 4 day conference, in the middle of summer…. and them LOVING it. They spend … Continue reading
The last birthday of the year for our family, but certainly not the least! Happy 15th Birthday Zach! I commented to him yesterday how I had started labour with him and he seemed a bit surprised that it had gone … Continue reading
While we had the best intentions to wake up early and head out to view all the “touristy” sites without the masses, our bodies wanted otherwise and we had a nice sleep in. We strolled through the streets and made … Continue reading
In April during our semi annual church conference, one of our leaders (Dieter F. Uchtdorf) spoke of the city of Dresden: “Not far from where my family lived was the city of Dresden. Those who lived there witnessed perhaps a … Continue reading
Another early morning as we had to make our way to the train station as we were heading to Prague! Prague has always been on my list of places to go, as I have heard it is beautiful. I’m just … 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