Our German Experience

Guten Tag! Let me tell you about our two weeks in Germany.

We read about the Black Forest and castles. That leads us to Grimm's Fairy Tales, which I learned were kind of like folk tales passed down from generation to generation until the Grimm brothers wrote them down. Remember, most of them have an enchanted forest and a castle as the backdrop. Disney made movies out of most of them - The Frog and the Princess, The Sleeping Beauty, etc.
We read other good books based on real life.
Mercedes and the Chocolate Pilot (about the Berlin airlift that dropped food, supplies, and even candy for the kids) was one of them.

There are alot of countries in Europe. We continue to play GeoSafari to learn them all.

Our read aloud was George Muller, The Guardian of Bristol's Orphans. Amazing how he trusted God for everything, lived debt free, and never asked for money. He prayed and God provided.

Five orphan houses werer built in Bristol, England and the number of orphans was mind boggling, but they were well cared for and visited by many famous people including the queen.

George, himself, lived in one of the houses in his last years as resident grandfather.

For science, we studied trees. We even charted the width and estimate height of trees in our yard.

Last weekend, we watched the movie, Heidi.

This weekend, I remembered two items that my grandmother had brought back from Germany years ago. One was the little wooden girl that moves when you push up on the bottom. The other is an egg, just a paper one that probably had chocolate in it. We set them out in front of this "little log cabin in the Swiss Alps". At least that is what it looks like to us.

If you could look close up at the inside of the egg, you can see that it says, "Made in Western Germany."

I also attempted a semi-German meal with bratwurst (turkey sausage), sauerkraut, and potatoes.

Then to reward those who ate their yummy meal (that only adults like), we served pastries, made just like the french chefs (although from frozen).

Ya, dat's delicious!