Weekend in Dresden

We spent the weekend in Dresden, about 5 hours east near the boarder to the Czech Republic. Even more than 60 years after it was bombed from WWII, it still seems to be a city under construction. It just celebrated it's 800th anniversary a couple years ago, so it's pretty old, but even the church in the center of the city was still a pile of rubble 4 years ago. Now much of the city has been restored, but there's a lot still in progress.

The city center is the Residence Palace of Augustus the Strong (not to be confused with Augustus the Stronger or Augustus the Strongest), and is now comprised of 5 museums. Easy to see all of the museums in one day.


The kids favorite was the Armory, which included sets of children's armor.




Evelyn takes pictures while we wait for Ric during his triathlon.




We rented an apartment on the outskirts of town so that we could all have a bed and a kitchen and not have to rent two hotel rooms. So for about $60/night we stayed in the bottom floor of a suburban house in a neighborhood that looked remarkably like Florida- with expansive lawns and large houses near a golf course.

Here's the owner's cat who came in each day to say hello. She also had a kitten who looked exactly the same, just smaller.

And the kids were permitted to head to their back yard to jump on the trampoline as a bonus. (Can't get that at a hotel.)

While Ric and I had Happy Hour on the patio.