Family Mellmann

(I asked for goofy faces. This is what I got.)

Perhaps you've heard the old moniker "kissing cousins"?  According to the Oxford English Dictionary, kissing cousins are "relatives or friends with whom one is on close enough terms to greet with a kiss".  Well, in our case, we have the "kicking cousins"...first cousins who ALMOST get close enough to kick. :) (This video was taken at Tae Kwon Do this evening.  Since part of the video is chopped off because of the format of this blog, you can go to my YouTube channel to see it in full screen.)

We're waiting for archery class to start and the boys found the most awesome climbing tree! Erika Sent from my iPhone

It's our first full day back in the US. Patrick has gone straight to work helping his German cousin settle in...including doing chores (like mowing the lawn).

The Durnbach War Cemetery is located in Bad Tolz, Bayern (Bavaria).  The site was chosen, shortly after hostilities had ceased, by officers of the British Army and Air Force, with officers of the American Occupation Forces. This cemetery consists mostly of those airmen shot down over Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Austria, Hessen and Thuringia. Their remains were brought here from their scattered graves by the Army Graves Service. The remainder are men who were killed while escaping from prisoner of war camps in the same areas, or who died towards the end of the War on forced marches from the camps to more remote areas. There are 2,934 burials of WWII , 93 of which are unidentified. One grave in the cemetery contains the ashes of an unknown number of unidentified war casualties recovered from Flossenburg. Another grave contains the remains of 6 unidentified U.K. airmen. There are also 30 war graves of other nationalities, most of them Polish. In the back corner of the cemetery (left en...