In between we celebrated the first night of Hannukah with Mike Goos, Ella got to light the candle
In the night from December 5th to the 6th the old Nikolaus (probably some distant cousin of St Nik) fills the kids' boots, assuming that they've been well polished before
Along with the fillings for the boots, he dropped off Oma and Opa from Germany, hurray
Of course, we had to take them to the zoo right away
Bake "Plaetzchen" with them
Impress them with the most graceful dances
Take them to Ella's school performance
Make sure they meet Grandma and Grandpa again, ideally over yummy food, a common interest
Walk off the heavy bbq, or as Opa calls it "die Knochen"
Forget about photographing the Golden Gate bridge, if you have Ella smiling fakely at you.
Oma und Opa in perfect harmony - for once
Finn and Mama
Finn and Papa
Ella showing Oma her favorite Gelato spot
And why shy likes Korean food
Setting up Advents-Kaffee
While Finn is testing the couch with Marlene (an older woman)
Unfortunately as soon as "Cinderella" came on, Marlene only liked the real prince
Finally we made it to the 24th, which we started with some carol singing via iChat, since the other half of the family was in German
While the kids happened to be out on a walk, Santa dropped by in the late afternoon
More carols to be sung, Noah, Galienne and Craig helped us out
The Mary and Joe story told with a bunch of haba figures
And finally: THE PRESENTS!
No need to help with the unwrapping, thanks!
Focus, schmocus
Well, and finally, finally, we eat. Sticking with traditions: bratwurst und kartoffelsalat
We all had the whole week off, enjoying the days with Oma and Opa
At the zoo again
At the bay area discovery museum
And at the Japanese tea garden in Golden Gate park
And then Oma and Opa returned to Germany and we got to update the blog...
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