First snow arrived today

The first snow arrived tonight as the rain turned to sleet around six thirty pm and then to snow by 8pm. When I arrived at home, Mingyu was waiting to have his ass whupped in a snow fight on the balcony. He scored two direct hits to my head and whereas I could only score glancing blows. Who's whupping who ?

Better get the skiing kit together, could be an early winter !

BONKERS IN BERLIN

How hard could it be to take a few kids on a plane to Berlin for the weekend, a breeze, a doddle you say ?  

We had a 'learning experience'.

The fun really started in the airport at the security section when the stroller had to go through the machine. So we unloaded the babies and held them with the carry on baggage in the other hand and went through the machine. THe alarm sounded when I walked through with Samuel, the guard gave Samuel a scan and patted him down then took me into a booth for the same thing. Fortunately I kept my clothes on, the guard asked me to take my shoes off and put them through the xray before letting us continue. 

We took a lufthansa small plane which means taking the bus from the terminal, Mingyu could not understand it especially when I jokingly told him we were catching the bus to Berlin. 

Onboard we had to change seats around because there was not enough oxygen masks for all of us and the babies in the one row. This will be the same for the big flight to Australia so we will need to be in separate rows.

On the flight the boys got restless and were crying and complaining, there was two colleagues sitting nearby and they got an earful all the way. Afterwards one said we had our hands full with the boys. 

At the berlin airport we picked up the baggage and went to the taxi rank, after waiting for a big cab the driver rejected taking us since he had no baby seats. We then resorted to catching the bus into town and walking up to the hotel. On the way we had a fish and chip break and a dunkin donut break in the space of less than 700m.

The hotel screwed up our booking for two adjoining rooms by leaving another guest in one of the rooms. We had to wait while they sorted it out and after 1 hour we were in a small room with the boys getting sleepier and crankier. I had to go to the conference and Sunny complained to the hotel and requested another rooms. She eventually got a suite and put the bubs to bed. When I arrived at 1130 pm they were all asleep. Around 12 Andrew started to wake and needed lots of attention to get back to sleep. For Sunny it was just a continuous tag team going from Andrew to Samuel and back for most of the night. 

  

Home coming

Last friday night I returned home  from a weeks training in Germany to see Sunny and Mingyu holding sparklers in their hands from the balcony.  They threw them from the eighth floor onto the ground, one nearly missing me by a bees knee. It was a dark night and the sparklers looked pretty cool from where I was standing. 

We celebrated Sunnys birthday last Saturday on the 4th October (real birthday on 6th). There was lots of yummy food and cakes, lots of swiss cakes. There was a chocolate cream birthday cake, a fruit torte and a blueberry yoghurt cake. Twelve people came over for afternoon tea. There was only one coffee served but several glasses of champagne went down before singing happy birthday. I hope you enjoyed it lovey.

Mingyu says he wants a hundred people over for his party !