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haircut

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Tue, 30 Sep 2008 18:25:00 +0000

post no. 100 has to be:
Juju´s hair is gone.. well, not all gone but he long hair that was down to his butt when wet and that turned into a heap of corkscrew curls when dry had to go. And yes, I still miss it :-)
he just looked way too cool but it was summer and it got increasingly hard to brush through it so off it came. He still carries it around and claims it´s an animal.. ha ha..

the day before the haircut I braded it so it would not get tangled too badly overnight...

what a sucky trade.. a lollipop for my hair.. hmm...

is that meee??? with the short hair??? BUT... I look like a BOY now?!?!

Isa got her first haircut as well, just a little trim and afterwards they gave her a cute french brade - she felt like a movie star.. ha ha..

To Blog or Not to Blog...

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:34:00 +0000

yup, exactly my question.. and it has been for a while, good thing reality had me very busy as well on the side or you´d get the idea that I actually put alot of thought into it 8)
I know that there are a couple of people that read the blog simply because they care about us, love us, miss us and want to be part of our lives even though we´ve all been scattered around the world. Those are the people I truly take the time to post pictures for - my family and friends (used synonymous in most cases!). There seem to be others that stop by along the way, be it by stumbling across it by accident or be it curiosity about whatever it may be they are curious about.
Well, after my last blog in February I received very negative comments because obviously I offended someone. And that someone wanted me to stop posting pictures and posts that might offend that person.
???????
I tried to put myself in that person's shoes and looked at it from many different angles but whatever the angle, I came to this conclusion:
DON´T READ MY BLOG IF IT OFFENDS YOU!!!!!!!
simple, huh?
I don´t intend to change my ways and frankly, I don´t see why I should either.
I´ve never intentionally hurt anyone, never leash out at anyone, that´s just not my nature.
Having said this - the answer to my self-imposed question is clear:
TO BLOG

Now that the computer is running again, my overtime at work has been decreased (yippeh) and hopefully with the switch to Windows Vista on top of that my camera will stop fighting me when I download the pictures, there will be ALOT more posts these coming weeks.. because there has been ALOT going on over here!

I think my very first post will have to be Juju with short hair. Short. It wasn´t even short when he was born. I miss his long hair.. it was down to his butt.. wait - let me save the sniffles for the actual post with the pictures.. lol

So yes, we´re back :-)

Origami X-Wing

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Tue, 05 Feb 2008 14:05:00 +0000

Helau! Since I have not posted in .... hmm.. a month? .... I figured it was time. I just need to resize the pictures and off we go :-)
Meanwhile, I found these very cool X-Wing Origami instructions.. geeky? yup.. :-)
and way cool!

http://www.union.ic.ac.uk/scc/icsf/library/history/picocon22/xwing/folding.html

enjoy!!!!!!!

little pre-christmas bowling

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Wed, 02 Jan 2008 15:26:00 +0000

It´s funny how I can be this much older than the kids but they still kick my butt when it comes to bowling.. well - maybe the little bumper rails helped.. he he.. but let´s face it: I SUCK! ha ha ha
But we all had a great time so that´s all that counts.

Bowling at Dexheim :-)

go Isa go!!!

I rock :-)

sssstriiiiike!!!
wonder if I´ll hit anything.. lol

look Mom, THIS is how you do it.. (thanks Juju...lol)

Christmas Pictures

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 17:14:00 +0000

For the last couple of years at the christmas treelighting ceremony at the WAAF, our favorite Santa aka "Emily's Husband" endures hours of taking pictures with crying children, screaming parents and frantic grandparents cheering their offspring on to smile for Santa...
Since neither of us can pass up an opportunity to dive right into that AND it is his last year here in our community since Emily, the Art Director of the Römer Art Center, has decided to retire in spring, we got these pictures taken. My favorite is another picture though that has nothing to do with our family but makes me laugh out loud everytime I look at it! I´m only posting the link since it is public but I don´t want to put the picture of other people's children on our blog without permission. Here is the link though, if you need a classic Santa moment, this is it!:
www.armygermany.com/santa

AAAH! Forgot the Thanksgiving pictures, too! lol

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 17:05:00 +0000

OK, how bad is this? I forgot to post the Thanksgiving pictures.. lol...
Well, long story short, we went to the Messhall in Dexheim with a friend of ours, Georgina.

I won´t comment on the amount of food my boys stuffed themselves with - see for yourself! lol

Every year they have a contest between all the cooks for different cakes and displays - quite gorgeous. They also had a table for the soldier that can´t be there with them because he was killed in Iraq a few years ago. It´s nice they never forget.

Hearts Quilt.. Progress - finally!

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:58:00 +0000

Yup, it´s starting to come together.. and I think it´s the biggest project I ever tackled! Sometimes I wonder why I thought I´d have enough time to make this Quilt... Life is really hectic (isn´t it always?) and while I´m working endless overtime and we´re trying to get everything ready for Christmas there seems to be very little time to sit down and sew for more than 10 minutes at a time - that just does not cut it..
But, the top is almost done, the basting is next and then I can start quilting. Maybe I´ll take it on vacation with me? Yeah right, like I´ll have much time there! But I´ll try...
This is what it looks like right now, after this post I´ll go back downstairs to sew some more and hopefully finish it this weekend.

Have you ever wondered.....

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:49:00 +0000

how a broken ceran stove top looks like?
here you go:
and yes, it costs alot of money to replace it.. perfect timing 2 weeks before christmas, huh? lol

....where the 3 year old hides when he does not want you to know he took the Nintendo DS?
right here, wedged between the couch and the wall:
.....what a 19 year old looks like when he has to pick up all the easter candy that he accidentally spilled all over the kitchen floor?
so wonder no more.. ha ha

Christmas Tree Lighting

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sat, 15 Dec 2007 16:34:00 +0000

yeah yeah, I´m a couple of days late.. or maybe 2 weeks? Well, simple explanation: we have an Alex.. lol
Those rare creatures usually hog the computer all evening when I would have time to download pictures and do my computer stuff. Even now that he works from 9:00 - 18:00 during the week I haven´t had the time. So here are the missing pictures from this year's Tree Lighting Ceremony at the WAAF. The 1st Graders were the ones that were allowed to pull the rope with Santa to turn on the lights and Isa was the first one in line.. lol.. duh?

So proud - Isa's first letter to Santa - I love how well my 1st Grader writes already :-)

Isa's letter to Santa
Lilly and Isa - great friends since german Kindergarten

Santa's Post Office
munching on popcorn and cookies.. :-)
Making canes out of beeds - can he see through those bangs? lol
several attempts to take a family picture failed - partially because Juju wanted to rearrange the presents under the tree and hand them out to people he thought needed them.. lol

another failed attempt.. ha ha.. but we had fun - so who really cares?

THIS is the only way to roast marshmellows Army style.. lol

MAGC Wiesbaden

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Fri, 16 Nov 2007 16:14:00 +0000

Did we have fun? Yes, we did!!!!! lol..
It was great to see everyone up in the Golfcourse Clubhouse on Sunday, Nov 4 and after eating and talking we - of course - went caching :-)

The Audimaniac Tribe, the Hzoi Tribe and us - later joined by the Nasenbär55 Tribe..
Christian and Kelly (hzoi) had really done great work in the weekends before the meet and placed some nice and original caches. He actually did some more work while we were caching - he first gave Juju a ride and later on Isa.. lazy kids.. ha ha
The whole gang had fun and since there were so many of us, we were able to make the trail stroller-friendly.. well, not friendly but doable.. lol..
Kim, our part time dog, had a great time as well, especially when all the kids figured out how nice she is and kept petting her.
Now, if you think that because there were so many of us, we had no problems finding the caches - you´re dead wrong.. ha ha.. but eventually - under the eyes of the cache owners - we found them and made it back to the Golfclub about 15 minutes after darkness fell upon us like bad family.. brr.. darkness brought coldness with him so it was good we were headed home. I don´t think Juju was awake by the time we hit the street - he just collapsed in his car seat :-D

Halloween - I forgot to post the pics :-)

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 17:02:00 +0000

On Halloween we just dashed home from our dayjobs, got the kids changed and rushed up to Dexheim to trick or treat a bit.. the last years we had either done this around here or had huge parties.. grin grin. not this year - but it was fun! Alex scared the living daylights out of some little and some big people and one of his treats was a beer.. lol.. we ended up at the gym there where the local chapel had a small "hallelujah" alternative event to halloween and that was fun as well :-)

Creativ Welt Wiesbaden 07

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:58:00 +0000

Good thing Thursday was a holiday in our Bundesland :-) It´s not in Hessen, the next one over the river.. he he.. so the first day of the Creativ Welt in Wiesbaden was not as crowded as it would have been it they had a holiday, too!!!
Alex was home so he had Juju and I took off with Isa really early to do a long list of things.. first off, buying snow tires.. we´ll need them for our winter vacation!
Next, have breakfast together :-)
Then go to Creativ Welt.
Afterwards go to cemeteries to visit my grandparents and other relatives to light candles since it was all saints.
And last, we had to drive to Alzey (if you ever read about Siegried the Dragon Slayer you probably heard of Alzey, a quaint little town about 20 miles from Oppenheim) to visit my colleague Gabi to see if the bunnies liked Isa...
At Creativ Welt, first I dropped Isa off at the free child care (yippeh!) for about 2 hours and ventured on my own - awesome! Didn´t get the book I wanted but didn´t buy fabric, either! Kudooos to me! lool..
Didn´t get the walking foot I wanted either.. but at least I know where to get it now :-)
I did buy a circle cutter, a new cutting board, really beautiful oriental glass beads for Isa and a Marble track called Cugolino pop for Juju though - I had so much fun playing with all the different blocks that I had to get a small starter set for him - well, christmas is around the corner so I went to the basement in the christmas gift box :-)

When I picked up Isa, she tried herself at wood cutting - with my help she cut out a 2-piece star that she painted later and that turned out really nicely - now she wants to do more sawing.. he he.. watch out Opi, here comes work for ya!

Then after enjoying the quilt expo they had, I got Isa and went to play with some games some more, bought a really nice dice game for her, bought some awesome markers and some blopens (finally caved in.. lol) which are for christmas as well! She also found some paper punches and
christmas card decoration stuff that she wanted so pretty much all the shopping went to the kids but I had such a great time looking around - priceless! Here are the pictures of the quilts - the theme was "suitcases from around the world" and had some really awesome quilts with Geysers, Volcanoes, hot-and-cold themes and tons of other things.. I didn´t take pictures of all, just of a couple..
Then there were quilts that incorporated a patch made by children in a village in Afghanistan - those quilts were made by children here... wow!! They were all so gorgeous!!!

And then I saw some that at first glance reminded me of Kristin´s work but.. yeah, her´s are more beautiful :-) I really liked them though!

New Family Members :-)

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sat, 03 Nov 2007 15:47:00 +0000

We have arrivals! Our 2 new family members are Munches and Crunches, two "Zwergwidder" bunnies who needed a new home. One of my colleagues gave them up due to her significant other´s sons asthma so Isa´s begging for months finally worked :-)
So after name searching that went from "Siegfried and Roy" over " Peanutbutter and Jelly" to "Sid and Nancy" we ended up tossing "Dancer and Prancer" and naming them Munches and Crunches.. lol..
Kim has been quite interested in them but I told her that having them with Bacon and Green Beans was out of the question :-)
For now they are outside, I´m sure we´ll build some nice outside and inside area for them so they can roam and have fun!
They are very cute, very gentle and quite friendly - wohoo!

Our first FTF!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 16:05:00 +0000

FTF = First to find
Usually, someone beats us to a newly hidden cache.. not so on Oct 22nd..
I logged on to my email and saw - oh, a new cache hidden in Nackenheim, which is about 4.5 miles north of here..
Thought about it for a minute and asked Alex "wanna get off the phone and come with me? There´s caching involved.. "
Amazingly he got off the phone with ????? (one of his friends) :-) and ran downstairs..
Dinner was done so I asked Rafael to feed the kids and we´d be back in about half an hour - grabbed the GPS and the flashlight and off we went.
Of course, the batteries were low and went off RIGHT BEFORE WE PASSED THE CACHE... AAAAAAAHH!!! But we found some more in our old caching bag in the trunk (seeeee - that´s why I don´t clean up back there.. grin) and found the fountain in which is was located. Not in the water, in the back of an old pump.
After we discovered the hidden container we noticed that nobody had logged it before! Yippeh! We finally got an FTF!!! Too bad there were people everywhere and we had to be stealthy so we could not jump around crazily! ha ha ha..
but we did later :-) And took stupid pictures!!
Hooray to us!
Oh, and by the way, Isa had wanted me to put my hair up in pigtails and I figured nobody would see me that evening.. ha ha.. duuuuuuuh.. so go ahead, get a good laugh! :-D

geocaching in Armsheim (where the heck is that??)

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:53:00 +0000

Armsheim is a tiny little village close to Alzey in the rhinehessian rolling country..
The main attraction for the kids was this fountain where we had to count the lights embedded in the water flow..

It as a beautiful crisp October day and the sun made playing in the water tolerable - what a nice day!

The pomace looks like giant mole hills :-) Millions of fruit flies (drosophila melanogaster, well known by some of us who took genetics and got to breed them in a glass in their Mom´s kitchen.. hmm.. who took the lid off???) had a feast! Since the new wine had just been harvested, the leftovers (pomace) were dumped onto the fields as a fertilizer.. when the kids got closer a cloud of them rose up and scared them away.. haha.. they are cute little things though!

Isa is 6!!!!

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:49:00 +0000

OMG.. how did this happen? lol
She´s is ecstatic because she´s not the only 5 year old in school anymore!!! :-)
We only had a small BBQ, most of her friends from school live 30 minutes from here so we didn´t invite them - next year..

Work In Progress - Heart Quilt

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:28:00 +0000

Wow - I think most of the hearts are done, now I need time to sew the top together!!!
My friends helped me at the last craft day and many many many of the Quiltsterne sewed a heart block for me once I asked for them!
The story:
An long time friend of mine whom I´m in touch with only about twice a year, recently kept popping into my mind so when I took a detour due to a large construction on my way home, I just gave her a call.. She was delighted and asked it I wanted to drop by with Juju which we happily said yes to. Then she gave me a quick warning and said - Sid, I have no hair.. I hope you´ll be alright with that, I am going through Chemotherapy....
huh?
She managed to develop a very rare cancer that does not invade any organs but instead covers the peritoneum (which covers your intestines, bladder etc.) with a layer of cancer cells...
Wow.. what bad news! She has always been one of the kindest, happiest and most active people around! Needed help? She´d be there. Had something on your mind? She´d have an ear to listen and a shoulder to cry on..
We stayed for a couple of hours (Isa was at Omis) and I could not believe how much my friend had been through in the previous 10 weeks! Since the cancer is inoperable as of now, she went through a strict chemo regimen until she could not endure the sickness anymore.. she was nauseous, dizzy etc..
On my way home I kept thinking what it was I could do that might help her through these tough times other than just being there for her?! And then the idea of a Quilt was born.
The next day I posted a note on the website of my quilting group and asked for "healing heart blocks" from anyone who would like to help me on this project.. and here came the flood! Block after block poured in from all of these wonderful women who don´t know my friend, 99 % of them don´t know me in real life, only from the internet!!! The most wonderful blocks, one prettier than the next..
On the following weekend I had my monthly craft day with my friends and they sewed their hearts out as well!
Just in case you wonder, I have sewn many as well.. lol.. the heart count is 60 blocks right now!!! I´ve laid them all out and wondered how to sew them up so here is a picture.. more will follow as work progresses!

Summer - Westerhaus

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 15:07:00 +0000

just a few pics from a nice weekend with Omi, Opi, Kim and the kids - Gestüt Westerhaus which belongs to the Opel family (Opel as in the cars, also known as Vauxhall in the UK). Everyone had fun with the young horses!!

get naked baby, you don´t need the halter, huh? :-)

Omi´s first Cache :-)

Feeding the one year old horses
Hey, I´m Isa, who are you?

yes, we are alive!!! :-)

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 12:52:00 +0000

I´ve been meaning to post some pictures for about 4 weeks now but as the Germans put it "der ganz normale Wahnsinn" has settled firmly in our lives at the moment (roughly translates as the simple everyday insanity).. lol
Isa is doing good in school although she´s - of course - still the youngest in the entire school. That finally changed last week when she finally turned 6 - wohoo!!!
Juju settled into Kindergarten (preschool) quite nicely and most of the time even stays dry, sometimes he even keeps some clothes on when he has to go.. lol.. but generally he takes off his shoes, pants, undies and socks, sometimes even his sweater, and goes to the potty then.. ha ha..
Alex is still in the process of a background check for his job with Child and Youth Services which means he´s home most of the day, plays online and surfs the web. A nice side effect is that he keeps Kim (my parents dog) company, since they are in South Africa for a couple of weeks. That is great for me because that way I don´t have to walk her at o-dark-thirty before I drive the kids to school and go to work - wohoo!!!! The two of them walk through the vineyards every morning and then she just hangs around him until the little ones are back.
That´s just the normal side of life at the moment, the rest is completely chaotic and insane but I hope normality will find us some day soon! My colleague whom I share an office with is home sick but we have patients scheduled for both of us... hmm.. somehow it still worked out this week, lets see how next week is!
Tomorrow will be a day of fun - Rafael is taking the kids swimming while I have my Quilt Ladies over - wohoooooooooooo again!!! Yes, they talked me into hosting our monthly craft day at last month's get together, and it was quite due... I´ve been dodging it for a long time since cleaning this house seems like an impossible task to me most of the time. But, I had a month's notice and actually managed to get most of it cleaned with the help of Rafael, a rug doctor and Agnes, who even tackled my windows!!!
Now to keep the monsters from totally messing it up again.. hmm.. Mission Impossible 5?

So this is what´s happening here, a bit geocaching in between of course, a little Birthday BBQ for Isa and the usual weekend outings. Settling into this autumn was hard until last week because it was beautiful here but now it´s grey and dreary and cold, I guess it finally got here. Hopefully Halloween will be dry next week!

Corn Maze by Night

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 18:33:00 +0000

not a night cache but a night trip to the corn maze.. too cool!
Just us girls decided to go and explore the corn maze with our flashlights.. maybe we should have taken the GPS to backtrack.. ha ha.. it was really great and we came back around 23:00 after hours of fun in the corn, by the campfire, on the playground in the dark :-) A definite must for next year, too!

MAGC Heidelberg

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 17:20:00 +0000

Of course there´s a little "subdivision" in the geocaching world that is military... :-)
They are called the "Military Association of Geocachers" - MAGC. They are a great bunch of folks and we had the first Charter Meeting for Germany on Saturday, way up in the hills of Heidelberg. Of course there was caching involved but I didn´t get to do any :-( On the way there we got lost (co-pilot was asleep and it was hard to read the WRONG directions from Map24 and avoid the tourists all over town) so no caching beforehand, on the way back I wanted to do just a short cache but then DH decided he didn´t want to do any caching.. so boohoo to me 8) and oh well, but at least we all went and that was great!

We met a bunch of really great folks although I wish we could have stayed longer.. next time!
One of the bonuses was that we got to see some paragliders gear up and start - one of them was carrying his child who was about the age of Isa or maybe a year younger.. wow..

Awesome view!!

Sibling torture.. lol.. they love it!

please do my face, too!!!

On the way back we stopped in PHV for some serious playground time - yippeh!!

we were under adult supervision :-)

Niersteiner Hölle

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:27:00 +0000

well well.. the other day, Isa decided to stay with Omi.. another Omi overnight - great for me, great for Isa - let me leave it at that. he he he.. nah, really, Omi rather enjoys having her there! At least most of the time :-)
I had seen that there was a new cache up on the way home, up in the vineyards, and only one person had found it so far - sunny weather, nobody at home waiting - where is the catch? NOWHERE! lol.. Juju and I parked in Nierstein right outside a winegrower's place where there were bottles for sale on a table. Yup, bottles, grapes, jams and a small box where you put your money. This is Germany, remember? :-) And what was in the bottles? Old wine (last year´s) and young wine from last week.. hmmmm... red Federweißer (young wine which is still fermenting)... So that was a perfect reward for when we would come back to the car!

Up into the vineyards we climbed and ate some really yummy grapes along the way, just the ones they left behind though... After a quick find and an awesome view we just hung out in the sun, sat in the tower up there, played with bugs and things before climbing back down to Nierstein.

My cache, my sours....

Fresh off the vine - have you ever eaten fresher grapes???

can i fit the whole thing in my mouth?

running downhill is ggrrrreeeeaaaatttt

BTW, the nice thing about potty training and caching is that you´re generally somewhere in nature and Juju can squat virtually anywhere.. he he he.. fertilizer! sorry, had to mention that. grin
This was a great little afternoon cache, we had a great time and yes, I rewarded myself with a bottle of fresh bubbly red Federweißer.. which I opened that evening, too!

Caching in K-Town

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:01:00 +0000

Saturdays are great for caching :-D So last Saturday I packed the kids (all 3 present) and drove down to K-Town with them for some caching.. there was a series calles "when nature calls" which had finals with a plunger, a brush etc.. :-) fun!!

meeting fellow cachers in the woods :-)

In between we went to Vogelweh for some food, gas and a quick commissary trip just to return to a forest area behind the Technical University for some more caching :-)))

Afterwards we stayed at a "Waldspielplatz" until it got dark.. boooooooh!

TWISTED!!!

The walk back through the dark forest was fun - more fun for some of us.. he he.. less for others!

Ballett - 40 Years Lerchenberg

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:09:00 +0000

The little suburb I grew up in turned 40.... and they had a "dance of the generations" show where Isa danced.. of course.. when doesn´t she ever? lol..
So here just some pics of her and her friends :-D

Cheeeeeeeeeeeese!

Cache'n Climb Wiesbaden

noreply@blogger.com (sidulrike) — Sun, 16 Sep 2007 13:18:00 +0000

AWWWEEESOOOMEEE! What a cool time we had on the Neroberg in Wiesbaden. There´s a really cool ropes course with different difficulty levels and even a small little kid climbing playground in the woods that had been on our "to-do" list for a while...

hmm.. wonder if Alex will be alright
Since 2 Cachers planned an event up there, we had to attend... It´s really hard to describe but I guess the most important thing to say is: We had unbelievable fun!

three of the kids on this picture.. find them! :-D
While I stayed on semi-solid ground with the litte ones and let them climb around on the kiddo course, Alex went up to the red course... I caught him falling once, too! It was great.. he he he.. unfortunately, the camera wasn´t ready.. so I had to take a picture of his recovery :-D

After the red course he ventured on to the black one.. tough!!! A couple of climbers had to call it quits on that one, especially if they had done another course previously. I have no idea how I would have done because I couldn´t leave the little ones alone down there, could I? lol
After Alex was done we went into the forest to do some caching :-D

As we left the trail, a group of 3 followed us.. then a couple more and we ended up caching in a pack - it was fun! It was sort of inevitable since there were over 200 Cachers present - more than I had ever seen!!! One cache in particular was quite memorable - it was uuuuup in a tree which called for some serious team work...

Good thing there were plenty of people around to talk smack, huh? But we did it!!!!! And we met some really great people there - some whose names I had read, one whom I´d been emailing with before from North Carolina and a couple more from various places throughout the world. The wife of the owner of geocaching.com was there with their son and after we bumped into them in the middle of the woods she was sweet enough to give us one of their coins :-D Alex loves to show it off.. he has definitely been bitten by the caching bug and wants his own GPS now.. we´ll see :-)

After a loooong day in and around the forest we drove back home in a very quite car... everyone was comatose but me - duuuh.. one of the best days in a long time!