New York

We all had fun on a four day trip to New York to meet Christian, Antje, Claudia and the Bernsteinss.
There was a great view from Christian's place

Christian showed us around

Dinner st a Christian's favorite Italian resturant

Mia could finaly walk Hershey again

Dinner at a Mexican restaurant on the Lower East Side

 On the way baxk by subway

Dancing with Antje

Birthday breakfast

 Art in the 14'th street subway station

 

Highline park

Charlottesville

This weekend we went for a weekend trip to Charlottesville. Mike and Ha were invited to a wedding there but no children were allowed at the reception. So we met everyone at the hotel and first checked out the pool

After Mile and Ha had left for the reception it was already time for dinner in the hotel restaurant - which we had all for ourselfs

Later we explored the surroundings.  On the pond next to the hotels were two swans and there was a little hill to climb'

We finished the evening with an ice cream bar and movie night.
The next morning we headed to Monticello, the estate of Thomas Jefferson just a few miles out of Charlottesville.
Instead of taking the shuttle bus we walked up  from the visitors center and it turned out to be a beautiful walk

After a tour of the house we explored the basement

On the way back Jacob spotted a centiped

At the end we posed for a picture with Jefferson

It was a beautiful day with beautiful weather

An Evening at the Iwo Jima Park

Saturday evening we packed our picnic basket and Mia's bike and headed to the park by the Iwo Jima memorial. The tulips by the Netherlands Carillon there are in bloom and there is always a great view on Washington DC at sunset.

When Ji took pictures of the flowers Mia wanted to pose for a few photos as well

After our picnic it was time to get out the Frisbee :

Frying Pan Farm

Mia wanted to make another trip to the Frying Pan Farm which is a park run by the Fairfax county. We went one time last November and she remembered the toy tractors, the animals, the carouse, the playground and the ice cream from the county store.
Since it was a sunny day we though it was a good opportunity to check out the farm on a spring day when there were lots of new baby animals to see

First Mia headed to sit on a toy tractor

 There were chicken

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Sheep with lambs

A real tractor

Calfs

Baby pigs

 Some good ice cream

And we checked even out a dog show that we found on far end of the park