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.