lots of stuff

Lots of stuff has happened during the last few days, which is the reason for my long absence.

Our visa came!!! so awesome! Praise God!

As excited (or in Alia's case, hungry) as we look, we are also very aware (and in denial about) of the fact that we are leaving in just a few days!

Another big thing happening right now: Our brother and sister plus one nephew and niece are here to visit us and we are having such a good time, so basically this is just gonna be a picture dump to show you what we have been up to :-).

cousin time!

oh how she loves her auntie Sarah

one day we went to a swimming place and I did not take any pictures inside, but these are the slides we went down - awesome!

 afterwards we went to a restaurant in Nürnberg and had amazing food 

 of course all our visitors have to go to the sign park, the only tourist attraction we have in Hof :-)

 spent some time chilling at the lake

 wee trip over to the Czech Republic

 all doing their favorite things, snuggling babies, jumping on the trampoline and bbq-ing

 and today it was Zoo-time in Leipzig, this is the indoor tropical part, such a good zoo