Birthdays

Today is my brother Martin's birthday.  I just talked to him on the phone; he lives near Freiburg, our hometown. Martin is one year younger then I am, and I hardly can believe that he is also retired.

Right now we are still on the east-coast of the US. Saturday we celebrated Cynthia's birthday. She's going to be 18 on the 18th;, what a lucky girl.

About 5 years ago I had the pleasure of celebrating Christmas with Winnie's family, and what a blast it was; so we were looking forward to this party with Cynthia's friends from school and most of Winnie's family.

Cynthia lighting her candles on a beautiful cake of her favorite colors

Sophie is taking it all in stride.

A day to relax

We are taking it easy today. After having slept for almost 10 hours, we had some breakfast on the porch and then I organized some cupboards with Cynthia.
This afternoon we visited Wegmans, a great grocery store here on the east coast. We encountered this store for the first time in Ithaca, NY, a few years ago when we attended Aariel's graduation from Cornell.
We needed to go shopping; as usual, Patrica has taken charge of the kitchen.

Patricia is doing her thing.

I got a chance to go for a bit of a walk and inspect the surroundings a bit closer.
Winnie and Cynthia own a new home in a new development about 40 minutes drive from Philadelphia.

Nice, quiet and lots of area for walks.

I also found a bird watching area for Patricia to spend some time.