Sophie's birthday

Having her birthday in August, Sophie is usually somewhere else on that day. She had never been in Germany on her birthday though. If she could, she would interrupt my writing here and insist on telling everybody that her birthday is really on two days, since she was born exactly at midnight. The moment I planned our vacation, I knew she would want to celebrate with Lena and Maja and so we left my cousin and his family the night before.


Sophie had an awesome birthday morning, who gets to wake up with friends on their birthday after all and on top of all, they gave her an awesome present - a pony ride!


After the ride-out, we had a nice birthday celebration with cake sparklers, paper air snakes, humongous bubbles, crowns, tongue tattoos and what not, it was the most perfect weather and hanging out on the roof terrace was bliss and gave the bubbles many stories to float down.

When John had looked for tickets a few month ago, he had found a flight that would arrive on Sophie's birthday in the evening, so we had planned everything around that. However, he did not buy that ticket, instead was to arrive a day later as we found out. Sophie thought that was quite alright, after all, he would come on the second birthday day, which he did not, he arrived finally on Monday, 2 days later than expected. Missing was half his luggage, according to the standards of Murphy's law, the one containing her present, a camera. Eventually even that arrived and she has been behind the lens ever since.