Der Familienbericht

Due to popular demand (hi Mom), we've decided to continue describing our family's activities now that we've returned to Germany ...

When Georg walked over to a copper-toned Hummer in the Sheraton parking lot, we thought he was pulling our legs. The boys have always been ...

Can check another country off the list of places to visit:) Our flight to Frankfurt took us over Canada. We were amused by the volunteers ...

Come full circle. Our last weekend in California, we got to celebrate the last family birthday--Aaron's big #4. Micki and Ken came up f...

Grandma rented a pontoon and the cousins had fun sliding down the slide and jumped off the top...more later

Hard to believe, but true! Nick turned 17 here in Georgetown. Uncle Steven grilled, Aunt Karyn baked a cake, and we had fun in the pool wi...

We made it to Georgetown and have been enjoying the McKenzies' pool with the cousins!

This week we went to Morehead Cinemas 6 four times--two matinees, one evening show, and one free kids' show! In the order I liked them...

Today we went to Cave Run Lake. We left Grandma's house at 2:30, drove for 25 minutes (car entrance fee: $6.35), and stayed there for 3...

Every day I do some garden work for Grandma. Well...every day I get paid for doing garden work. The first two days I did some weeding and c...

Happy Fourth of July!!! Yesterday we went to the Walmart in Morehead to watch the fireworks. My favorite was such a big golden one. We had ...

Today we went to the Morehead city pool ($3 for adults, $2.50 for under 12). Our main goal was to teach Michael how to swim. So we spent m...

Yesterday we woke up early to get breakfast and then go right on to Mesa Verde. The first tour we took was of the Mesa Verde "Cliff Pa...

On our first day here, Nick and I made a panorama of the Grand Canyon. We took it from t he Desert View Watchtower . It was a good locatio...

Mom took a photo of my clone, and it looks like he has a rifle instead of a stick. It is a bummer on June 26 in the summer that my mom might...

Today Mom and I went on a hike down the Kaibab Trail. This trail leads all the way down to the bottom of the canyon. At first we were all pl...

Patrick had a 101.5 degree fever last night. Holiday Inn Express could not extend our stay because they were booked out. But all's wel...

Our first longer stop at the Grand Canyon was the Desert View vista point with its Watchtower. This tower is 70 ft tall and was built in 19...

Today we went to some Grand Canyon vista points, which were interesting at first, but got boring fast since they all looked the same. The c...

In a land far, far away, named the Grand Canyon (of course), there was a big war. Of course, the clones won, because their enemies were br...

We made it! First, a drive to Grand Canyon's Desert View, walk around the Tusayan ruins, climb up the Watchtower, and drive down the ea...

After a good breakfast with "homemade" waffles at Best Western in Bishop, CA, we started our journey at 9:30 AM. We continued driv...

Today we started our drive to the Grand Canyon. Mom got a car upgrade when she saw how much luggage we had and how small the compacts are; ...

Today we started our trip to the Grand Canyon. Although our car had air conditioning, not everything was cool. This is because there is on...

In the German tradition, the men went out for a Father's Day outing--paintball! Paintball was one of Nick's favorite activities in ...

Patrick's ran in Hillview's 7th grade track meet. 210 7th graders at Hillview participated, and he got 2nd place in the 50 yard das...

Was such a treat to be invited for dinner at Joanne and Mike's our last week here in Menlo Park. Here is where our year "abroad...

My M-Bag arrived in Germany from the US in less than two weeks (the same day as the second box sent regular mail), but the boxes inside were...

Since everything is pretty much packed, I have no place to keep scraps of paper with the info for how best ship the boxes now. So I'll ...