Europe Trip 2016

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!