I went for a bike ride yesterday. I love bike riding everywhere. It's just so. . convenient! And there are so many people on bikes. Bikes locked up to everything. I wonder what it is illegal to lock your bike to because literally they are locked up to everything or just parked outside of bikes on the curb. I left my lock at home on accident so I decided it was a biking ride tour kind of day. Well, I got lost. I got myself good and lost. Thankfully I have a good sense of direction so I wasn't really lost. I just rode in one direction and took lots of turns for about an hour and a half and couldn't find a bridge to cross over the river. I kept thinking if I just go a little bit farther one has to appear! It did, just a lot farther away than expected. My stitches weren't very happy with me the rest of the day though. It was my first day wearing jeans and that fabric is just not soft! I got home and laid out on the chair on the deck outside my window and took a nice nap in the warm sun.I was sitting in the park near the kids school yesterday reading a book when I looked up and saw a really large person walk by and I though to myself that is the first really fat person I have seen here. At night, while I was having dinner with Andrea and Phillip after the kids were in bed, Phillip informed me that there is actually a 20% obesity rate here. So I guess the Germans are getting fatter too. Oh dear. The kids and I went back to the park after school and while Emily played peacefully, Oscar and his two friends decided to get into trouble by throwing sand up the slide. I thought it was all fine, none of the kids were screaming or crying or complaining but some up-tight parent was apparently just not okay with it and had a talk with them. I guess he asked one of the boys his name, where he lived, where was his parent, what was his phone number and he told him all lies. Silly Boys. Oscar thought that was just SO funny. He was laughing so hard when he was telling me about it. Those boys are trouble makers. :)
IKEA trip today! WOOO! The kids are getting new mattresses because their Dad just made them a trundle bed I think it's called and their old mattresses are much too small. This weekend we are going to a birthday party at a "castle" in Wetzlar. Should be interesting. I'm not really sure what qualifies a castle, it could just be a mansion or something. So we will be staying the night there and then coming back Sunday. Oscar isn't coming with us because he is going to a horse riding camp! Sounds like fun to me!!
