Over Norway, through Oslo, and on to Berlin. Our trip begins. Highlights of our trip are listed below:
Flying into Oslo, Norway with snow falling down, seeing forests and heaps of snow
Berlin with the sweet Fröhlich family and their kids...playing and cheese fondue.
Wonderful fellowship, food, and accommodations
The Friessen family invited us for a delicious lunch and playing at a
playground
(with dangerous and super fun play equipment to spin, slide, climb...and soccer)
Wittenberg
An art school
Cobblestones
Countdown globe to the 500 year anniversary of Luther's 95 Theses
Martin Luther's house
The first German Bible
The first copy of "A Mighty Fortress is our God"
This is the door with the 95 Theses!
Evangeliums Christengemeinde in Hellersdorf (Berlin)
Dinosaur Park and Zoo
Into historic Berlin
These birds want the cake! The birds in Germany were especially cheerful and loud.
Brandenburg Gate
Holocaust Memorial
Curry Wurst
Bakeries
Where the Berlin Wall had been
Potsdamer Platz
Bundesrat
Checkpoint Charlie
Fassbender & Rausch Chocolates
Gendarmenmarkt
True, true
Spring is coming
Ritter Sport
My favorite pastry...
Our dinner--delicious wurst and salads
Esther reads to the kids in the backyard
View from the train as we head west to Bochum
Time with Jacob
The Stadt Park--with little wild fuzzy bunnies
Delicious food and comfy accommodations with cousin Sabine and Bernhard
The Railroad Museum
Playground with wonderful contraptions
Hattingen
Family gathering at cousin Barbara's
My Tante Siglinde
Bergbau (Mining) Museum
On the tower
Time at Tante Siglinde's
Delicious dinner
She has me in her calendar!
Gasometer
Exhibit inside
On top
To the Isenburg
Restroom signs
Yummy Lahmacun Döner
Tierpark (Zoo)
Petting the goats
Lemurs with babies
Trey likes the "Käse Fisch" (cheesy fish) best
Afternoon coffee and cake with cousin Ellen, Jacob, and Onkel Wolf
The church where my father was baptized
Making homemade Käsespätzle with Jacob
Playing computer games with Julian
On our way to the train...trying Bochum Curry Wurst
On the train to Basel, Switzerland
Our hotel room--thank you Anja and Roland!!!
With cousin Anja at the Birs River
Our first meal--so fancy
Delicious Rüblitorte
Stroll by the Rhein River into Basel
Crossing the Rhein by ferry
City Hall
The Paper Museum
Raclette
Trey and Lily stroll along the Birs
We hiked across the locks on the Rhein
Into Germany
Lunch at a well
To the top!
Delicious chocolate
On a clear day, you can see the Alps from here.
Sweet time with cousin Anja
Fun playground
Views from the highest tower
Hike down
Birs again
Grinding grain to make bread
Delicious breakfast buffet with whole grain croissants, granola and yogurt, and latte macchiatos
Back to the train
Back to Germany
Picked up from the station by Onkel Joachim and Tante Elke with bikes
Walk to church
Great service in Erlangen
Cousin Raphael and family
Seeing my Grandmother's grave
Bamberg
All the lanterns, old doors, stain glass, cobblestones...
Erlangen
Ice cream
Schlossgarten
Nürnberg
Latte macchiato, Kaiserschmarrn, Schnitzel und Pommes
Castle
Castle wall
Into the tower
Views from tower
The deep well
Much delicious food, and wonderful accommodations. Lily and Onkel Joachim also went on a bike ride...but my photos got deleted.
Back to Berlin and Lily's birthday at Garten Der Welt
The Birthday Girl--12 years old!
Wonderful friends and sisters-in-Christ.
Köpenick
One more bakery
Our last breakfast with delicious fresh Brötchen (bakery rolls)
Berlin-Oslo-Oakland
Tchüss Deutschland!
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