At noon we went to the farmer's market and ate wurtz. I had two wurtz and a pork sandwich. One of my wurtz was an award winning wurtz. I tried a normal one too. I must say that the award winning wurtz was tastier but it was about 2x the price too.
Then the troup headed out on the subway to the Communications Museum. Pictured are Warren, Cassie, and Sean.
The museum is kid friendly with lots of hands-on type display. One of the events was to demonstrate how to communicate with this little robot dog. We found out that it costs 7,000 EU. That is nearly as much as a real dog.
On the way home we took a side trip down to the Patsdamer Platz. Sean is sitting along side the pavers which mark where the old wall was built. These pavers disappear into new building and emerge on the other side.
This is a site that you will not find on any map of Berlin. I stuck my camera just inside a crack in a driveway gate to get this photo of Hitler's Bunker. It is still in original condition and walled in. It sat on the East German side and even they were at a loss as to what to do with site afraid it may spawn neo-nazi sentiment.
This is the same place with the newly restored street names marking the spot. That is a high wall. This site is an island surrounded by new construction.
We left the house at 3:30am PT on Thursday and arrived in Houston at 11am CT. We were already tired and prepared for a 3 hour layover. That three hours was filled with infinite jaunts back and forth on the moving sidewalk.
Sean and Meghan were in good spirits for most of the trip.
Here they are immediately after going through customs in Amsterdamn.
Amsterdamn is a HUGE airport. It is 3x the size of LAX and has only one terminal. It took us 25 minutes to walk to our next gate. Unfortunately, the last hour jump from AMS to Berlin was delayed. We got on the plane and they couldn't get the left engine started. So we had to be towed back to the gate and get on another plan. We had been en route for 21 hours. Ouch.
We did eventually reach Berlin in time to have a late lunch with the Yerms.
Both Sean and Meghan are in swimming lessons each day. It has been 7 weeks of daily pool visits at 5:20pm. The first couple weeks were rough. Meghan cried the whole first week. Sean had to be forceably carried while in hysterics by the teacher and unceremoniously thrown off the diving board. The swim instructors were under orders to apply whatever technique was necessary. They are much better now, but they still can't swim!...7 weeks is a long time. 
Sean is playing Xbox. I took it from him and he can get it back when he learns to read. It has been two months....We'll see who is more stubborn. The problem with this strategy is that I lost alot of behavioral correction leverage. Drat!
This is our Weim, Wilson. He had an anal sack abscess and had to wear underwear so it wouldn't get everywhere while it was draining. Yuck!
We were dog sitting this weekend. Lady is a 5 mo. old black lab. This dog doesn't sleep enough for Wilson's taste.
Then on Monday, we went to Seal Beach again. The kids seemed to enjoy it last time. This time they went to the playground. There were a ton of parents and kids there.
Then in the afternoon, we dropped Meghan off for her nap and went over to Rex's where he had a huge water slide and was BBQ'in. The boys all played legos.
Warren initiated himself into the sport of fishing by playing with the net and falling into the lake. 
Warren then recovered by cathing a 2 lb catfish in the middle of winter.
But it was Cassie who led the way with two fish caught. The first was a little farm trout and then she simulteneously caught a catfish of equal size to her brother. At $4.50/lb our trip was concluded. 
Here is a picture of the girls before bed on New Year's Eve.
