Sweeter side of Cologne

Ashley though I should share this part of our trip to Cologne, Germany.  We have visited a chocolate museum.  The museum has covered everything from cocoa beans to the machines used to process chocolate, from old chocolate vending to , of course, the candy shop.  Museum was not very big but it was interactive.  I learned how they make hollow chocolate candies (do you know how?).

I am sure the kids will agree that the best part of the museum was the huge chocolate fondue fountain.   The picture did not turn out really good, the dusk was approaching, but the chocolate was great as well as light and crispy cookies that were dipped in that chocolate.

Cologne Germany

We went to Cologne Germany today.  The trip was good.  There is a lot to do there.  Plenty of history and lots of sights to see.  Touted with a history as far back as 50 AD, the city is Germany's fourth largest and has the forth or fifth largest Cathedral in Europe.  There is plenty to read out there about the city so find Wikapedia I suppose.

Spring is HERE!!!

I truly hope that I am right about the spring.  We have had whole week of sun!  Kids are enjoying playing outside and we can finally resume our weekend getaways.  It is interesting that here many parks and castles are closed for winter.  Plus, it is not fun to walk in the cold rain.

On Wednesday, Carolyn said that she had a best day at school EVER.  Her teacher brought her two cats to school. So kids spent about two hours entertained by the cats or vice versa.

Kids got their haircuts this week.  We lucked out that the hairdresser knew a little bit of English. 

Yes, those are bangs.  As I told Ashley, she better get those done by professional rather than experimenting with cutting bangs herself.

5 months

This past weekend we have celebrated our 5th month residence in Luxembourg.  We can say that we have finally established a routine.  Carolyn continues going to gymnastics twice a week.  She has been training harder than ever.  Carolyn really likes it.  Before we came to Luxembourg I really thought that gymnastics would be a very popular sport and it will be easy for us to find gymnastics school/club.  However, it was not so easy.  There is a wide variety of sport activities that is offered for the kids but the choices of locations are very limited.  Soccer, of course, is the absolute favorite sport here.  Ian has been going to his classes once a week.  He cannot wait to play outside though.  So far all of the training has been done indoors.  Ashley and I started out own classes last week.  We are learning French.  Why French? It is considered the official written language of  Luxembourg, even though  German and Luxembourgish are also spoken languages.  We go to our school three times a week.  There are about 15 students in our class from about 10 different countries.  Needless to say it has been an interesting experience. 

We also caught the glimpse of spring weather last week. It was nice to see some sun.  On Saturday we went to the dog shelter.  Carolyn and Ian really miss our dogs, and their hamster is not very interactive.  Kids were not allowed to keep the dog on the leash, however they truly enjoyed walking Dollar.