http://www.travelblog.org/Bloggers/ehaldi/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from ehaldi en-us Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:36:44 +0000 Tue, 15 Dec 2009 04:36:44 +0000 Monday and Tuesday of this week rang in the first hopefully annual Thurman sibling city takeover. Our target this year was Berlin the very cosmopolitan German capital a 2 hour bus ride 2.5 hours by train 1.5 by car from Dresden. We left at 915am on Monday morning and almost didn't make it because of how crazy the three of us are and got to Berlin a few hours later. Berlin was a blast. http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/District-of-Berlin/Berlin/blog-416431.html What a great day This may just have been the funnest is that actually a word or is it the most fun day that we've had with Jonathan. We laughed hysterically nearly the entire day hiked some great trails saw incredible things and weren't ready to come home when it was time. Seriously. I had to literally pry your sonbrothergrandsonnephewfriendrelativepizzafinisher from the rocks in o http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/blog-416392.html Hi EveryoneThanks so much for your awesome comments. Jonathan REALLY enjoyed reading them and they made both of us laugh. Andreas and I are having such a great time with Jonathan. He is such a sweet spirited good natured funny kid. Jonathan and Andreas have developed several inside jokes for which I'm either too dense or not cool enough to understand Jonathan just assured me that it's a litt http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Dresden/blog-416380.html Jonathan and I have really been enjoying the museums here. There are so many fun interactive creative museums to visit. We wandered into the Technische Sammlung yesterday literally within walking distance of our house an added bonus and stayed for over 3 hours playing with things experimenting and trying to solve logic puzzles quicker than the other or quicker than the other museum gues http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Dresden/blog-414350.html Jonathan and I decided to take it easier yesterday after a very full weekend and many more activities in store for this week and next week. We hit the old part of the city Altstadt again revisited the palace and the Zwinger and spent some time in my favorite church in Dresden the Kreuzkirche The Church of the Cross loosely translated. The Kreuzkirche has been completely destroyed and rebu http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Dresden/blog-413715.html Jonathan surprised us yesterday morning by being the first one up. He had gone to bed later than us the night before so we were still fearing that we might have to peel him out of bed again. Fortunately for us he was up and at 'em and never looked back. He woke up before me again this morning so I feel pretty confident that his jetlag is gone. Hooray Jonathan is going to eat the floorboards http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/blog-413259.html Yesterday and today have been very long very busy days. Jonathan has been suffering from some pretty extreme jetlag. He couldn't get to sleep until well after 2AM on his second night here had to be woken up at 1030 so that he wouldn't sleep too long or have his internal clock realign with EST time and then had a really hard time getting to sleep again last night another 2AM bedtime. This http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Dresden/blog-412862.html Yesterday was a long but very exciting day. I arrived in Frankfurt at 7AM my flight left Dresden at 600AM... and Jonathan's flight was scheduled to arrive at 905. His flight was delayed over an hour so his nervousexcitedgiddy sister had to curb her enthusiasm for just a little longer. The last hour's wait was incredible. Jonathan looks very much the same as he did in December but bigger http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Dresden/blog-412266.html The Boy arrives in one day. One day. A nearly 13 year old under my roof for 2 and a half weeks. In one day. Despite how daunting it sounds I'm really looking forward to it. I've been excited about him coming here since shortly after I left Atlanta. I kept thinking Jonathan should really come visit and it was somehow still a hypothetical insomefutureuniverse type of thing. And now he's rea http://www.travelblog.org/Europe/Germany/Saxony/Dresden/blog-411423.html