Martin um die Welt: 2016

Dienstag, 27. Dezember 2016

Christmas time with Emilia

The first christmas time with Emilia was much fun. December 1st, Emilia helped opening the advent calendar and December 3rd we enjoyed Glühwein at Leipzig's christmas market. December 10th we watched the Coca Cola truck party in Leipzig. For christmas we visited Franzi's Family at 24th and my family at 25th. That was quite some travelling. Emilia surprised daddy with a funny shirt for his birthday :)

Emilia helps opening the advent calender

First Glühwein at Leipzig's christmas market with friends

Coca Cola trucks visting Leipzig

Franzi in front of one Coca Cola truck

Emilia christmas baby :)

Emilia surprised me with a nice birthday shirt

Sonntag, 13. November 2016

Autumn in Leipzig with Emilia

We started Franzi's birthday (29.09.) eating breakfast with friends, followed by a visit to our wedding location in Kahnsdorf and finished the day with a bbq get together.

breakfast with Cons&Lea at our terrace

visiting our wedding location in Kahnsdorf

bbq party at our terrace

October 2nd, we visited Leipzig Zoo togeth with my sister and her family. The zoo was super busy due to Sunday. Yet, it was fun to see all the animals and my niece and nephew were happy to spend a day with their little cousin Emilia.

a meerkat was on the watch for enemies

the giraffe stick out it't tounge

my sister's family

the seal and the heron enjoyed the sun

the chameleon was hiding...

October 16th, we placed the love lock that we were giving at our wedding from friends.

Franzi placing our love lock

Emilia enjoys the sunny autumn day

October 21st, we attended the wedding of Benni&Anja and I had the honor to return Benni the favor and be his groomsman.

Anja & Benni

Franzi, Emilia and I

October 23rd, Emilia was visited by Franzi's friends Lisa and Bine and we visited lake Zwenkau.

Lisa, Franzi, Emilia and Bine

October 24th, we had a photo shooting for Emilia with our wedding photograph Ralph.

November 6th, we drove to Wechselburg and hiked to Rochlitz Hill and from there back to Wechselburg via Sörnzig and Fischheim. The autumn colors were gorgeous and the view from the hill was great. Wechselburg is also a cute village.

View from Rochlitz Hill...

great autumn colors and a wide view

November 12th, we went on our first little bike tour with Emilia to lake Cospuden.

November 13th, we met Franzi's friends Mone & Martin in Halle and went for another hiking trip. We hiked from Giebichenstein along the Saale river and finished our tour at the castle. Dressed in our hiking clothes, we then visited the kinda fancy restaurant Alchemistenklause and we were indeed the only people dressed like that^^

Martin, I, Franzi and Mone at the Saale river

Castle Giebichenstein

Sonntag, 25. September 2016

Seefeld in Tirol, Austria

End of September we went on our first trip as family. I was invited to give a talk during the EMBO workshop "The modularity of signalling networks and proteins". Given that Emilia was so young, we didn't want to be separated and so Emilia and Franzi joined me in visiting Seefeld in Tirol in Austria. On Tuesday (20.09.) we drove from Leipzig to Seefeld with a short rest in Ingolstadt. We stayed at Hotel Viktoria, which was very pleasent. The next morning, we explored the beautiful landscape of Seefeld before I attended the conference at the afternoon and evening. I gave my talk at Thursday morning and in the afternoon we hiked to Reither Jochalm, which was quite a way with the stroller. Friday noon, we visited nearby Mösern. From the bell of peace we had a great view across the Oberinntal and the Möserer lake was nice too. At late afternoon, we visited the Leutascher gorge, which offered a great walk over the steep gorge.
And at the end of the trip, we visited Franzi's sister in Augsburg.

Overlooking Seefeld

Gorgeous mountain views across Seefeld

Overlooking Seefeld on our way back down from Reither Jochalm

Overlooking Oberinntal from Mösern bell of peace

Overlooking Oberinntal from Mösern

relaxed Möserer lake

At Leutasch gorge

Emilia enjoys to be carried by her mom

Great walk through Leutasch gorge

Donnerstag, 1. September 2016

Precious new arrival: Emilia

On Tuesday (23.08.) Franzi felt contractions in the morning. So I stayed home and we went for a walk because the contractions weren't very strong yet. 4 pm we drove to the hospital - but we were too early. The contractions were too little and they sent us back home to return in a couple hours. The contractions became stronger and stronger. We were watching some episodes of "Suits" and Franzi tried to ignore the pain. Half past 1 in the night (24.08.), we visited the hospital again. Still a bit too early. But we were allowed to stay. It took a couple hours, then at 9:00 am Emilia was born and shouted for the first time. We were super happy. Emilia weighed 3,135 g and was 49 cm tall. Franzi was exhausted. We were lucky to get a family room that was only for us and I could stay over night there too. We were watching her all the time and got to know her and how to handle her. The next day (25.08.) her aunt Jenny visited. Another two days later we left the hospital and Emilia was now staying in our home. At that day also her grandparents visited. We learned to handle Emilia and Emilia received many presents.

Daddy and his baby girl (24.08.)

New born Emilia in the hospital's family room (25.08.)

Emilia arrived in our home (27.08.)

playing with Emilia :) (27.08.)

Emilia after taking a bath (16.09.)

Sonntag, 14. August 2016

The summer of pregnancy

The first week back in Leipzig (June 3rd), we moved to a new flat and prepared it for the arrival of our daughter. At the same time I started working at Leipzig University again. And we enjoyed the great summer weather in Leipzig and watched games of the European Football Championship...