Riding a bike with heels on - EASY.

The kiddos got sick this week and spent the better half of 2/3 days at home. Oscar was "more" sick with a pretty constant fever but now they are up and running! The new aupair - Maike's replacement - Katie and I have been hanging out a bit. She is from South Carolina and we are kind of similar in the sense that we can't make the small decisions. It's a disaster when we go out. Ok not really but it's funny. We both come from 5children families so maybe that has something to do with it. We went out to a bar on Wednesday night and had some new drinks - one was a delicious strawberry shot that is pictured here w/ Katie.
The bartender likes us. We've named him Fabio. Get the picture? Quite an interesting character. Low cut V neck shirts. Yeah. Anyways we had fun. The next night we just chilled at her place and had some wine. and some little Feiglings!! I missed these cute little shot drinks. They are like a sweet vodka with less alcohol. Very tasty. Katie bought 2 bottles of wine the other day and guess how much they cost. . . 4.98 euros. Ridiculous. We'll see how they taste!
Yesterday one of Amy's childhood friends came into the city to hang out with me. Her name is Katherine and she has been an aupair for an American family in the army about an hour from Frankfurt for the past 2 1/2 months. . She is leaving in a week though - way to short of a stay if you ask me! We wandered the city. The weather was pretty crap so that stunk. We went to the Frankfurt Museum for Modern Art and let's just say with both agreed we just don't understand modern art. Nope nope nope. I think the modern art museum in Chicago was much better. The featured artist was some guy from the States. I forget who it was. I'll work on that. Katie met up with us for lunch. We went to a place called Vapiano which is kind of like a buffet but classier. Maike told us we had to go there. It was so good Maike!! Katie and I split a spinach pesto pizza that was delicious. Then we wandered some more around the city.

We headed into the Katherine's church on the Hauptwache and we ended up getting to watch a huge choir/orchestra practice some songs! It was pretty cool! Katie and I might go back next week - she took not of their practice time so we'll see if they will be there again! Made me think of Singing Christmas Tree - I'm going to miss it another year! Sad day. We took Katherine to the river so she could see the famous Main and of course that is when the weather cleared up the most for the day. Ended on a good note!
We dropped off Katherine at the train station at about 5 and then stopped by Katie's to pick up some goods and then Katie got on the bike for the first time in a long time for her and we biked to my house and helped with getting dinner ready/entertain the kids because they were having 10 people over for a dinner party! It all went pretty smoothly. Got the kids to bed and then Katie and I headed out to the middle of the city to go out. We ended up going to Helium's again which was where we were on Wednesday so Fabio recognized us naturally ;). Then we spent a good half of an hour being assaulted by a guy from Ukraine and his "best friend" from India. Let's just say it was very entertaining. The Ukrainian couldn't speak English, Katie couldn't speak German, None of us but the Ukrainian could speak Russian, and the Indian guys German was pretty crap and his English was okay. The bartenders were just laughing at us. On of the bartenders, named "scary hairy" due to his hair situation kept a good eye on us. We felt nice and protected. At one point it seemed the shirt of the Ukrainian was coming off but that disaster was averted. We headed out shortly after that. Got home and Phillip and Andrea were still up talking to two of their guests so I hung out and chatted with them then we cleaned up a bit and headed to bed - crashing at about 2AM. Late night! lol.


This morning Oscar sneaked in about 7:30AM - "Cara get up come play." Oh no. I held him off till 9Am and then we got up and had some breakfast. Emily and I just worked on our leaf creations. We used the leaves that Oscar, Emily and I had collected a couple weeks ago and flattened in books. We had a pretty good assortment.

Tonight I am babysitting for the neighbors, tomorrow I have class and then it's Monday Night Movie night! Woooo! Love my movies. Now I have to go play the piano - Phillip said my ten minutes this morning was just not adequate. Fifty more to go. Yeah right!!

xoxoxo
C