Trip to Tokyo

This year we combined out family trip to Shanghai with one to Tokyo. Since the whole trip was on one ticket with a Chinese airline  it was not much more expensive than just going to Shanghai.
We left Frankfurt in the afternoon

The next morning we transferred to our Tokyo flight in Beijing were we had enough time for a breakfast

On approach to Haneda Airport we could see Mount Fuji on the left - luckily Mia had a window seat

From Handeda airport it was a short bus ride to our hotel in Sumida City distict of Tokyo

View from our hotel

Poppy Seed Cake

We found some poppy seed baking mix in a kitchen drawer that was close to its expiration date.  So we jumped into action and made a cake - it turned out really well

Saying Good Bye to Chloe

Chloe's flight to back to Washington DC via Paris left very early from the new terminal 3. So we arrived at 5 am  to say good bye

Partial solar eclipse

In the evening we could watch a partial solar eclipse in Heidelberg. All the special glasses were sold out days ago but thanks to some instructions from the internet we managed ti build a pinpoint projector out of a cereal box. From the Ernst Waltz bridge we had a good view at the sun which was close to sunset

At the end of the peak coverage a nice lady gave us her self made glasses

Chloe in town

Mia's old childhood friend was traveling in Italy and added a few days in Heidelberg to see Mia. We tool her to a traditional German restaurant close by where we love to take visitors and friends

Eating Out

When mama had a fancy dinner with the girl scout ladies we decides to go to our favourite Italian restaurant for some pizza and pasta

 The food was great but unfortunately Mia got bitten by a lot of mosquitos

Watching a Quarter Final

On a beautiful summer evening we met in the old town in Heidelberg to watch the world cup quarter final between Spain and Belgium outdoors with many other people

 The final result was a 2:1 wn for Spain