Here are a couple of recent photos: Brennan at our local old-time train station and pushing a kid-cart at Daniel's Garden Center in the Netherlands, and then 3 pics from a recent trip into Koeln to hear another Jagdhornblaesergruppe play in the cathedral. The music was great and the accoustics were awesome, but we had to sit through mass to hear them. (Don't worry, that's just milk in Brennan's coffee cup.)
On Saturday we joined our town's St. Martin's celebration. All the kids brought handmade lanterns (Brennan made a ladybug in Krabbelgruppe and one of our neighbors made him a beautiful penguine) and we paraded behind St. Martin and his horse to the accompanyment of the town marching band playing St. Martins songs. The volunteer fire department carried torches and we arrived at the sport field to light a huge bonfire. There may have been a reenactment of St. Martin cutting his cloak in two to give half to a poor man, but it was incredibly windy and we were too busy trying to avoid the heavy smoke to notice. Here are Brennan, Max and Paula. 
We ended up back at the firehouse where the kids received goodie bags containing candy and Weckmaenner from St. Martin himself. A Weckman will sometimes have raisin eyes or be holding a lollipop, but all the ones I've seen have included a pipe. They are very cute and somewhat sweet tasting. Here are Paula, Katja and Brennan digging in.
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