Go outside!

Like most teenagers, our children spend what seems to be a huge amount of time in front of either the computer, the television, or some other kind of electronic device that you hold in front of your face. It probably isn't as much as it seems and I cannot really tell them to reduce their time since I spend a lot of time on the computer and Jenn even got a Netbook so that she would not take away valuable Left4Dead time from me. Yes, I spend quality time with my son by killing zombies.

While the summer has not be overly awesome in terms of weather, these last few weeks have been pretty nice indeed. We always talk about doing stuff outside, but we often do not get around to it. For example, we live quite close to the Alps, but we have never gone skiing in our 8 years here! We just never seem to get around to it. Lame. So anyways, we went for a 2 hour bike ride yesterday through the villages south of Munich and today we are going on a hike in Schliersee.

It is really cool to be able to do these activities so easily and while we have not taken advantage of the Bavarian countryside as much as we should have in our years, we will definitely miss it. Or we will at least miss the possibility to do these things. Let's see what Chicago has to offer...

Here is a bike ride shot from May 2005

Hiking in Sept 2006

Sterling is playing Mass Effect right now...

evidence of growth

Today I went through our old digital photos from 2002 to 2006. I had copied them onto CDs since my first computer in Germany had only 8gb of space, was of course was pretty big way back in the early 00 decade but is comically small now. Kind of like when Guns n Roses sold a billion records in the nineties but only sold 3 million copies of the last one. Ha...3 million copies...what a joke.

Anyway, my point is that our children have grown up in the past 8 years. I realize that this is not fark.com worthy information, but it is still amazing to see the transformation. We have traveled to some pretty fantastical places these past few years and it is truly hard to imagine Sterling and Kimeko being so small. But the evidence is there in my digital photo viewer.

Here is a picture from almost exactly 7 years ago at Andechs which is a monastery/beer garden in Bavaria...