Maddie is out of school yesterday and today (of course next Thursday for Thanksgiving, she'll be in school all day!). Anyway, we went to the Duisburg Zoo and to IKEA and didn't get lost once! This is a first for us. It was nice.
A note on IKEA: it is a great place if you don't need anyone's help. There are a number of things you can just pick up and buy at checkout. If that's all you need, IKEA is the place. They even have a great cafeteria about half-way through the store. But if you need a service person to help you order something, that's when things get hairy. Our good news is that the couch we ordered from them is arriving on Thursday. We'll have somewhere to sit! But the chair we ordered has been discontinued. Fortunately for us, December will see the exodus of a number of ex-pats heading back to the States or Canada or other points, and we may be able to pick up something they are leaving behind.
My weird song on the radio today (there seems to be one every day) was a cover of Mark Cohn's Walking in Memphis by Cher.
Tonight Skip and I are leaving Maddie with a babysitter who lives down the street. She is fourteen and speaks German, English, Dutch and is learning Spanish. Skip and I are going to see David Lamotte, one of my favorite singers, who is on tour here in Germany. He's playing the Duesseldorf YMCA, which is actually a hotel, hostel and conference center. Looking forward to it.
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Wish you were here--walking in Memphis with us. Julia and I just got back from "Annie" at the Orpheum. The girl who played the lead had mannerisms that reminded me so much of Maddie. We miss ya'll and we're counting the days until Christmas Break!--
Brooke Sanders
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