Weekend trip to Berlin

Hello all, I hope everyone is fine?

We were just coming home from a mini-break to Berlin. Unfortunately the weather was very terrible, I cannot remember had I ever had experienced such a strong wind. There are plenty of open spaces and large alleys in Berlin and the wind was blowing and howling through those. We did what we could and tried to stay warm. Not so easy, when queuing 1.5 h for tickets to the Reichstag in the middle of an open field… By that time we were all pretty frozen.

We stayed with our safe and sure habit of splitting the days in “something for the parents” and “something for the kids”. And still I was very impressed how much fun Helena had in the Pergamon museum, when she got her very own audio guide and went herself looking for the numbers to type in and listened to the texts. She was also very impressed by the Berlin wall and its history. I am afraid I had to check on the classic web sources to brush up my history on those events so I could explain her how union went. After all, I was only eight years old when that happened.

Matilda was her usual happy self and did not complain much. She was happy being allowed to eat French fries :-) 

 

Our trip ended with a visit to the Legoland Berlin, of course, that the kids liked a lot. It was fairly nice for the adults, too.

 Enjoying the view from the Reichstag-Kuppel. Or was it enjoying the wind protection?

 Helena in front of a wall piece at Checkpoint Charlie.

 Some more queuing... and Matildas way to avoid the wind.

 They had strollers to borrow at the museum. Needless to say, Matilda wasn't impressed by the exhibition and took a daynap.
Uh, it was great to push her for a while after carrying her around whole day. Those 14 kg can get HEAVY.

Matilda made a new friend at Legoland.

 Every girl should stand once next to BATMAN!!!

More wall... next to Potsdamer Platz here.

I hope you all enjoyed your weekend, too!

A warm spring day

We had such an unbelievable great weekend weather!
Yesterday the temperature hit the 20s degrees Celsius and sunshine during the whole day. What a day to get outside, enjoy the sun and play around. We were able to take the thick winter clothes of!

The kids made a piknik, while the parents did some gardening. It was just the thing I needed to lift up my spirit and my energy.

We also decided to wake up the turtle from hibernation and did a spring cleaning in its outside compound for the summer. It did not take long until she crawled around having a look around, of course, in the evening it went back inside, it still gets too cold during nights.

I hope you all had a nice weekend, too!

Karneval

It is the fifth season in Germany, the Karneval season.
Having myself been one of the "actives", I have had a great time celebrating Karneval, though only in the small village of Moselkern :-) Helena enjoyed it, too, while Matilda fell asleep waiting for the procession to start. The kids got such a huge bag full of sweets and goods and we all had a good time.

Helena had decided she wanted to be a mermaid, her wish is my order, but Matilda's costume choice could still be manipulated by myself ;-), me, performing a cat and Teemu got some "real man"- ascessoirs.

 Getting ready to go front....

 ... and back!

 How does one paint a skunk face???

 Half cat, half batman's joker...

 ... and ... the REAL MAN.

 Uh, yummi, free candy!