Happy Birthday Dan!

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We had a fun time celebrating Dan’s birthday last week.  After our bakery goods breakfast and a missionary meeting we drove into the city where we did a Hop On Hop Off tour and learned a lot about the city.

Birthday Breakfast with German Baked Goods  



Hop On Hop Off Tour


Dan's Birthday Dinner



We have beautiful skyscrapers.  The architecture reminds me of the beautiful architecture of Chicago. There are also two very interesting things about them.  They are all tall and not very big around and their windows all open!  The reason being...German law requires that all office space have natural light and also that there is fresh air ventilation.  Go figure.  



The work never stops on the mission.  So this week after interviewing some missionaries we decided to eat out.  We heard about a restaurant that overlooked an airport and thought we would give it a try.  Well it was a tiny regional airport in an out-of-the-way place and when we got there they weren't serving dinner yet, so we ordered some strudel (yum!) and dad enjoyed watching the air traffic.  He misses flying his plane.






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