Zum Geburtstag viel Glück!
Here's Anna's early morning bouquet after her wake-up birthday song
Our "little" Anna celebrated her ninth birthday on June 26th with cousin Hannah and our family here at home, and then again on the 28th with all of us and her two best friends, Jessica and Sarah, at an amazing invention known as a "climbing forest." This was her day:
Sarah, Anna, and Jessica before the big adventure
We rode the elevated train for about an hour to the outskirts of East Berlin to a protected part of the forest called "Climb-Up!" We paid an entrance fee for our six climbers and then they received hard hats, gloves, and climbing harnesses with carabiners and rolly-thingies (I'm sure that's the technical name!) for sliding down zip lines.
The climbers then received a careful introduction into their equipment and how they would safely navigate the courses that had been built high above us among the trees. And then they were off!
Anna and Hannah show their ready stances
What fun! The courses all begin with a ladder that guides the climbers up to a series of platforms, connected by a variety of obstacles that they have to cross to go from tree to tree: hanging logs, nets, suspended stumps, moving ropes, rotating poles, skateboards, and zip lines—all suspended up to 30 feet in the air!
The climbers are connected with their carabiners to guide ropes at all times so there’s no danger of falling, but even so their concentration and focus was extremely high. Each of the courses has a different difficulty level—the perfect place for our group of six ranging in age from eight to eighteen.
Here you can see Lara's altitude on this mid-level-difficulty course . . .
. . . and here in the close-up you can see the concentration!
After two and half hours of climbing the kids were tired but ecstatic—Anna said this was the most fun birthday party she’d ever had!
Happy birthday, big girl!
We love you!
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