Familie May

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On this sunny, but horribly cold Saturday we decided to visit the Fortress Königstein, just about an hour by car away from our home. Like every year they have a wonderful romantic historic Christmas Market and this year even an underground Christmas world in the casemates (Casemate - ital. casa matta (covered house) – cannon-proof fortress rooms). The corridors were filled with lights of the traditional Herrnhut Advent and Christmas Stars and the smell of candles, sweets, Barbecue and hot wine punch. We got great impressions, the kids had a lot of fun in the snow and it was just a wonderful day. Late that evening we came back home, tired, completely chilled through, but happy :)

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The history of the Dresden Transport Museum (Verkehrsmuseum Dresden):

With its 50-year-old history, the Dresden Transport Museum (VMD) is one of Dresden’s newer museums. Its inception in 1952 as one of the first cultural institutions in the former GDR after the Second World War was directly connected with the establishment of the Hochschule für Verkehrswesen (College of Transport). The origin and tradition of the museum, however, can be dated to the year 1877, when the collectiton of the later Saxon Railway Museum began, which was housed in the Dresden-Neustadt railway station until the Second World War. The museum, therefore, traces back to one of Germany’s oldest technical collections.The holdings of the Saxon Railway Museum (only partly surviving after 1945) were taken over by the future VMD as its first exhibits. In the first years, the work concentrated on the collection, categorization and preparation of suitable exhibition material, including an expansion to all modes of transport. Before the reconstruction and development of the ruin of the Johanneum started in 1954, the new museum was first housed in a shed at the Dresden-Neustadt goods station. During the 750th anniversary of Dresden in 1956, the first completed construction section on the ground floor housed the first exhibition on '120 years of Saxon Transport history'. After further special exhibitions, the part of the museum that was housing the permanent Railway exhibition, could be opened to the public in 1958. Since the inauguration of the Aviation/Aeronautics exhibition (1970/72), all exhibition areas (railway, cars and bicycles, local public transport, shipping, and air traffic) have been presented at the museum. In connection with the reestablishment of the Free State of Saxony in 1990, the VMD obtained the status of a State Museum. The museum celebrated its 50th year of existence with a ceremony in 2002.

Here are the pictures of the paper lantern party we went today. The kids had tons of fun and a great marshmallow goop :)

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Happy 1st Birthday sweet little Christian!! We are so blessed with you and love you so much!!!
We now officially don't have a baby anymore :) !

For those of you who can't wait to see our pictures, here is the link:
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The video of a short part of the medieval games in Sümeg you can find here: http://youtu.be/2NSgBgcIzQk

It will take a little while to write the 14-days-diary of our vacation at http://Balaton2012.blogspot.com, so you don't have to wait longer and can enjoy the pictures. These are mixed Heike's, Oliver's, Martin's pictures and some taken with a digital underwater camera. Have fun watching :)

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Can you imagine what our planet looked like a hundred million years ago? At that time, none of the continents had today’s familiar shapes, and dinosaurs and other reptiles reigned supreme on land, in the sea and in the air. The life-size models at Saurierpark bring that era back to life. You can meet huge herbivores and look terrifying carnivorous dinosaurs straight in the eye. Find answers to questions such as: Where did the dinosaurs come from? Why did they die out? And how did such an incredible diversity of species develop? Find answers to questions such as: Where did the dinosaurs come from? Why did they die out? And how did such an incredible diversity of species develop? Entertaining activities and exciting play areas will make a visit to the Dinosaur Park an unforgettable experience for all the family!
(homepage of the park: http://www.saurierpark.de/english)

The pictures of our Dino-Trip into the past :)
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I just prepared a new vacation blog as a travel diary of our summer vacation at Lake Balaton / Hungary. Check it out again at the end of August / September :)

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Our sunday was filled with wonderful impressions of the Weißeritztalbahn (Weisseritz Valley Railway - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weisseritz_Valley_Railway) to the mill of Rabenau and a walk through the Rabenauer Grund. Following a few pics:

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Martin and his team are the new vice cup winners :)
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The new vice district champions! Martin is second from left

Hard to believe, but our little sunshine Vincent, who still was (and is) our baby ;D - today he turned 4 years! Happy Birthday!

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Who wins the 2012 UEFA European Football Championship?  Germany!!!!

Christian started to pull himself up

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the video on youtube - click !

just click here to see some of the pictures of Christian's baptism

Christian just turned 7 month and ... ready for push-ups :)

unbelievable - 6 month and Christian just tried to move forward by getting on his knees and using his left arm for doing commando crawling

100 % high class workmanship

Here you can see the pics of the trip:
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just follow the link to see the pictures of our Easter 2012 :

my wonderful four boys :)

Vincent just loves to feed his little brother Christian, here he gives him selfmade mash only made of apples and a big pear - what Christian didn't eat in the end Vincent did ;) Now Vincent wants to have the same mash for snack in kindergarten - lol...

my beautiful rose Oliver brought for Valentine's Day - I just love my hubby!

So long the boys waited for snow to go sledding. At first we had mild temperatures and much rain, than we were just freezing with about 16° below zero, and now we finally got snow - and my boys are just happy!

poor Martin needed to stay at home because of a bad cold and mild fever :(

Vincent was just sooo happy that I picked him up from kindergarten with his sled

...goofy... ;)

Christian with his physical therapist Uta Mai

oh...and he wanted...so much...

how time flies - sweet little Christian Carl is 3 month already - started with the first baby mash and he loved the pumpkin flavor ;)

I just love to see and hear him laughing. Christian is such a little sunshine and sweet happy boy! It's great to see him growing and changing!

On New Year's Eve we all stayed awake till New Yearand didn't had any problems to do so, even Martin. Just Vincent got a bit tired of waiting for the big fireworks and got asleep very fast and long. But just in time he woke up to celebrate with us the New Year and watch the big fireworks ;)

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