Happy Easter everyone! We are so ready for spring! Spring brings baseball, tulips, and sunshine - our favorites! We recently celebrated Chase's 6th birthday. He's so proud to be 6, reading, pouring his own milk, putting on his own shoes and socks, and all those other big boy things. We had a nice day at home playing Chase's favorite birthday games and eating his favorite chocolate cake. We also had the opportunity to travel to Germany with Daddy to a class. The weather did not cooperate, but we really enjoyed the pool while Daddy was in class. On the way back, we spent a night in Dachau and toured the concentration camp there. It was an experience that is very hard to describe, as you may imagine. So now we're looking forward to baseball season again and a visit from Grammy and Papa. Stay-tuned for pictures of us in England, Naples, and at an Eagles' concert in the Verona Arena - planned adventures for May!
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The town of Dachau was so picturesque
and peaceful. Our room looked right down into the town center
square. About 2 miles from there is the infamous Dachau. We felt very much the weight of what happened here, yet the day was beautiful and the place itself seemed so normal, somehow. It was a place full of contradictions. |
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"Work sets you free" The first contradiction was at the entrance gate! I don't think anyone here felt free. We struggled with bringing the boys here. It felt wrong somehow just taking pictures, let alone smiling in them. But the boys, of course, didn't understand this. The buildings in these pictures are original, built by the first prisoners to arrive here. The roll-call area was absolutely huge - yet imagine over 60,000 people lined up here. |
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| Learning about life in the prison barracks. Listening to Daddy try and explain the gas chamber. SS guards, a ditch, barbed wire, and an electric fence | ||