Dresden, Germany

Of all the experiences we had in Dresden Germany, I think our children will remember three things the most:  soccer, signals, and the playground.  We rented an attic apartment (it's very nice so if you are ever needing a place to stay in Dresden I highly recommend it) from a family and they had two children who love to play football (soccer).  Just a short walk from the house was a park with a place to play soccer and I think the kids played nearly every night we were in Dresden.  

With our new friends

The second thing I think the kids will remember is the cross walk signals.  To stop the little red man holds out his arms straight. and to go the little greet man looks like he is walking holding a map.  So of course at almost every light we saw (and we see a lot since we are walking a lot) some of my children imitated the signals.  Later we also found some of the signals with a girl, but I didn't get a picture.  Yes we are such tourists!

Stop signal

Go signal

We spent some time looking at the old part of Dresden where we attended a church service highlighting the Dresden Boys choir sang, we saw the Green Vault where all the jewels are kept, visited the main square and the palace.  But the place where the kids really got excited was a playground we happened to find.  We have seen lots of parks, but most of them include walking paths, benches, a pond, and trees, but not playgrounds.  The structure was huge and had some unique play features.  It was funny to see the kids fly out of the big slide (not the one in the pictures but a bigger one on the other end).

Statue of Martin Luther

Courtyard of the palace

Playground in Dresden

Photo finish of Seth and Joe racing down the slides

And if any of you have lost socks in your laundry, they may have found their way to the laundromat in Dresden!

Laundromat decorated with lost socks