WW: Start of Carnival season in Germany

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These are some of the members of a Carnival group. They walk with several thousand different persons in the streets during the Carnival season.

It starts every year on 11th November at 11:11 am. Usually on this day it's just a meeting of the group members in their club house and some pictures for the media.

The real season starts in January and lasts usually until February on the day when the Christian start their fasting period.

MM: Klaus & Klaus - An der Nordseekueste

Again a song when i was a young boy with 9 years (1985), at that time this was a big hit during the carnival festivals in Germany and even today it is called an evergreen or oldie.

Let's have some fun with Klaus & Klaus - An der Nordseekueste!

Gymboree Play & Learn Review (Tropicana)

Today i would like to make a review about the Gymboree trial class that we sent Timmy to. It's already about a month ago, but i could not find a time to make the review.

We were disappointed when we were told Timmy was the only baby in this level (Play and learn - Level II, 6 - 10 month young babies). One of our purpose was hoping that Timmy could interact with other babies. Well...the advantage of being the only baby in this class is that the teacher would pay more attention on Timmy ;-)

Basically, Timmy enjoyed the activities, he showed his curiosity all the time. And frankly, he was doing very well. The teacher said so, too :-) In my eyes, some of the activities seems difficult for Timmy to complete, but i was surprised that he could actually complete them (except one, crawling down a slide) for his first time!

The activities are finished within 45 minutes, it's really a rush!!! Once Timmy had completed one, he were asked to complete another activity immediately! It's always rushing here and there (can't imagine what it will be like in the other groups with several kids). Tired for us too ;-) haha...... From my observation, i believe Timmy wanted more time for himself to explore all the used equipments.

Basically, we were quite ok with the class since Timmy enjoyed the activities and interacted well with the teacher.

I hope there will be some more babies signing up for this class. I really hope Timmy can make some new friends soon ;-)

The winners of the Birthday-Giveaway!

So there we are with the winners of the Birthday-Giveaway!
We've got 13 answers and from the 13 answers 11 "guessed" the correct age of my dad.

There have been so many hints and the number 3 appeared so often... for sure he is now

33 years young :)

The comments of the winners have been published and if you can give me your EC-Profile page (simply click on your dashboard on your ad image and then copy the link here in the comment section), i will transfer the 333 EC to each of you today!

Picture from http://www.flickr.com/photos/elvispresley/ / CC BY 2.0

WW: Petronas Twin Tower at night, Kuala Lumpur

Petronas Twin Towers in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia - View from KL Menara Tower

MM: Cindy Lauper - Time after Time

Taking the time machine back to the 80s to listen to one of Cindy Lauper sonsgs.
As the original Music-Video is not allowed to be embedded by Youtube or by the Publisher of Cindy Lauper, i use the Lyrics-video from Cindy Lauper's Time after Time.

Have fun with Cindy Lauper!




Update on our BIRTHDAY GIVE-AWAY - Happy 9.999 ECs for you!:

It's prolonged until 5th November. You just have to guess the age of my Daddy... i give you on the Happy Birthday post a very easy hint for the solution, the first 33 persons with the correct answer will get EACH 333 ECs - at the moment 9 correct solutions are given :)