annotated short collection of photos

Tanja's dad and I drove to Hamburg to pick up the 18 boxes we shipped from Philadelphia. We managed to fit the entire set in his car! The border agent only checked one box (as you can see), and complimented Tanja's packing job. We were lucky - we saw other people who had to open and unpack absolutely everything!


Here is Tanja, Clara, and Opa in Oma's backyard. The big tree Tanja is standing under self-seeded, and is only five years old!!!


Tanja and Clara after a tiring walk in Stralsund with friends from Philadelphia (Janna, Mikko, and Sampo).


Three photos from the backyard Bar-B-Que when Jaana, Mikko, and Sampo visited. We forgot to ask if we could put a photo of baby Sampo on the blog, so I've only posted these great photos that Jaana took of us:




And one for aficionados of "The Simpsons Movie":


Aunty Nadine is one talented artist! I'm really looking forward to seeing "Spiderpig" once he (and his tracks?) are on their ceiling!