rot, orange, gelb, grün, blau, lila

"Rot, orange, gelb, grün, blau, lila," means, "Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple," in German!  

 

Fall!  If there is one thing that is different about Germany and Texas, it's Fall!

 

 

Fall in Bavaria is amazing.

 

You can see every color of the rainbow on leaves of the trees.

 

Except for blue, but you will see blue skies on a sunny day!

 

On one sunny day we went to the "Pink up the Pace" cancer awareness 5K run.

 

Kieran also had his first Rain Gutter Regatta for cub scouts.  He used nail polish to paint his boat. 

 

Here is the finished boat.

 

Ready to race!

 

They had to blow through a straw into the sail of the boats to make them go.

 

Here is Kieran and his best friend, Julian.

 

They are both crazy...and crazy about otters.  That must be why they are such good friends.

 

Not every Fall day in Bavaria is sunny.  Some are rainy.

 

The leaves are slowly falling off all the trees...

 

and soon it will be Winter.

 

Apple pie is good in Fall.  Especially the FRIED McDonald's pies they have here.  My parents say this is how they used to be in the States before they made all their pies "baked."  My verdict is I can never go back to the baked, because the fried are just too good!

 

Here are our Jack-o-lanterns.  Can you guess which one is Kieran's?  Yes, the Ninjago eyes...Mine is the owl.  My dad's is the bats.  My mom's is the cat.

 

We won for the best family costumes at my dad's clinic's Halloween bowling party.

 

Here we are on Halloween.  And what do you know - Kieran is the green Ninja from Ninjago!  I am Sally from the Nightmare Before Christmas.

 

A lot of German kids come trick-or-treating in our neighborhood because it's all Americans who live here and we pass out candy.  (Most of Germany hasn't caught on to trick-or-treating yet.)  It's a fun night!  The Germans have a holiday on November 1st that they celebrate instead called All Saint's Day.  All the stores are closed.

 

Trick-or-Treat!