Easter 2013

We rounded out the celebrations in April with Easter.  The girls dyed eggs and earlier in the week and the Easter bunny came with bright baskets overnight.

Elizabeth Turns 5

Elizabeth has decided that she should be called her given name, not Lizzy, as she is growing up. Auntie Rosie and Dan were here for the party at Bambooland, a climbing and bouncing place near our house, where Lizzy had invited a few friends from school and some outside school friends.  She choose a rainbow shaped cake, that Granny made a few weeks earlier, and Mommy decorated as a per request.  One of her favorite gifts was a doll with a cupcake hat that came from a good school friend. A school party with a crown and special birthday chair rounded out the big 5.

More Colorado Fun

A classic Colorado day-melting snow in the bright sunshine

 Hiking with Grandma and Grandpa

 More melting fun

 Good times with cousins and library books in English

Hiking with cousins on the mesa

 St. Patrick's Day cookies.  Mommy looks caught in the act!

 We squeezed in a few ice skating lessons and worked on front cross-overs.

A super Spider skier

Ski Colorado

Sorry about the delay in updating the blog...we've been having so much fun that fixing computer problems was not a high enough priority.
Lets go back in time to February 2013: skiing in very snowy Colorado while staying with Grandma and Grandpa. It was no surprise that Lizzy and her invincible spider suit quickly progressed through ski school. Dad got a few candid shots during the last school run of the day and was pleased that Lizzy had enough energy for one last run together before the lift closed.

Katherine's birthday party

Pictures...April seems so long ago now. Good friends gathered for party.

Pergamon Museum

We headed out early on Saturday morning while Mummy had gone to do her German exam. It was cold and snowy but Lizzy had requested a ride on a tram and daddy wanted to revisit the Pergamon museum.

 Lizzy was intrepid and bold in her snowsuit with a dolly in her backpack.

Public transport went fine thanks to pretzel shops in train stations. The Pergamon Museum has closed its main entrance for construction and so we had to walk around the Neues Museum to get in. It took about 90 minutes to get in but the Pergamon was unphased by our extensive snowsuit, backpack and toilet session before entering the exhibits. 

 

 The girls passed through the Pergamon Altar room so quick I didn't get a picture. Through an archway we entered a Roman market square with a beautiful mosaic floor that caught their interest for a few minutes.

 This picture is returning through the Babylonian archway on our way our of the museum. 40 minutes is enough for these two in the Pergamon. Lizzy did take a snap of the mosaic, which illustrates that these museums really aren't set up for people lesn than 1 meter tall.

The public transport and museum went really well. The journey home would have been worth a taxi fare with hindsight. Also, I must remember that York Strasse station is a wonderful place to change lines only if you fancy stairways and half a mile walking on the street between platforms.

Next time I'll drive. Parking was only 2 EUR per hour and free on Sundays.

Pacific Rim

At the ethnological museum we made a quick trip through Europe to the "Junior museum", which turned out to be just 3 rooms, all about rice. Back through Europe to Africa then Southeast Asia and then descended a staircase to The South Seas and Australia. This hall was great, with reconstructed wooden houses and a Tongan catamaran. There were just about the only things in the museum that are allowed to be touched, but it was worth the wait. We quickly exited through North America.

Shoes off for scampering around inside this wooden house

 1/3 scale Tongan catamaran (seems pretty big to me)

This boat has a fire place

This is where the fish go.