Canadians and Americans taking over Germany!

Friday night, I went to Neustadt with Robert, Alex, and Heather to the reopening of the disko that burned down a couple of months ago. There were lots of kids there, but it wasn't THAT exciting because it was nothing really special. Nonetheless, I guess it's exciting for the locals who only ever go to Aqua and now finally have something else to do (no offense, guys).

Saturday and Sunday were lovely days of doing absolutely nothing and just relaxing. We all slept in a little bit both days and just hung around the house. It was rainy and bad weather on Saturday, so we all got to chill and take it easy...a nice change to the usual! Sib was out at a meeting/wine tasting event that night, so it was just Klaus, Benji, and me for dinner most of the day and for dinner. We did some work on Sunday around the house and enjoyed our free time outside. I went on a pretty nice run, and I was very content with the weather returning to sunshine and warmth! For dinner, we had asparagus, which is my favorite vegetable. Asparagus season is really a big deal here, which makes me happy! We wrapped them in crepe-like pancakes and covered them in hollandaise sauce. Yum-o.

Monday, Benji and I spent the morning playing in the sandbox. I had my camera to take pictures of the spring here, and Benji took it and figured out how to use it. He was going around taking pictures and loving it. Around noon, Heather came to W-IH to stay for the week with us. Benji had just been picked up by Opa (the days switched because he went to Kindergarten the next day when he normally goes with the grandparents), so we had to figure out how to entertain ourselves. There was a big BBQ outside for all the winemakers in the region because they had spent the whole morning setting up bug confusers on all the vines. I have no idea what they're actually called, but I think my name is pretty fitting. We road the bikes up to Hit (supermarket) and figured out what to make for dinner (you can tell we were bored because this was like 3pm). When we got back, we went outside in the garden, sat on a blanket, listened to music, and bonded over things. It's so nice to have someone around like that who you can do simple things with whenever you want. When Benji got home, we were barbequeing for ourselves lots of vegetables, feta cheese, meats, garlic bread, salad, and a nice chocolate cake. It was lots of fun being able to cook together. We all ate outside under the big, blossomed tree and had a good time enjoying each other's company.

Tuesday was a morning of vacuuming and cleaning since we had made such a mess in the house already since the cleaning lady came on Friday. Heather worked for Klaus in the mornings in the vineyards. This is the day I found out we have no more gymnastics! There's been a 3 week break for Easter, but we can't go anymore because it restarted on the same day as Kindergarten. Benji went to Kindergarten with Sib for a couple of hours and came home around noon absolutely tired to the point of almost no return! He was so incredibly worn out that he couldn't even eat lunch and had to go straight to nap. Nonetheless, Sib said he seemed to have enjoyed himself there. Robert came over in the evening and had dinner with us. We sat outside again because the weather has been so lovely. When he went to catch the train home, it didn't come, so he had to walk all the way back to my house and sleep there! I was already sleeping and had no idea any of this happened until I woke up and Heather told me.

Wednesday was another Opa and Oma day, so Heather and I took the afternoon off and went to Kaiserslautern because Moritz just moved there. We road up to the train station on our bikes and headed over. Moritz picked us up and showed us around the town. We bought some strawberries, salad, and Flammkuchen. After eating, we headed to the park to hang out and play frisbee. We met some friends there with hip hop music, so we hung out with them...speaking in German and English at random intervals. I love it. I think that's what I'm going to miss the most. Nobody in America speaks German, and I'm scared that I'm going to lose most of it when I come home. When I do say anything there, people either get mad because they have no idea what I'm saying or just don't speak to me unless I promise to speak in English. Lame. Who wants to be my German speaking partner? Anyway, Heather and I took the last train home from K-town to BD. It was really interesting riding our bikes home at night since Heather suffers from night blindness, hahaha. We did end up making it in one piece, though. No worries there.