Saturday, January 13, 2007

Progress

We had a remarkable experience today. Before we went into Kroeger (large furniture store), we had breakfast at a SMOKE-FREE McDonalds! It smelled so good. We're hoping that this is just the tip of the iceberg. Here in Germany, decisions about smoke-free areas are made at the province level, so different areas have different rules.

We weren't at IKEA, but the pieces we bought have just as many screws and will take just as long to put together. You can pay someone to do it for you. It always sounds really expensive in the store and then becomes more and more reasonable with each 100 screws that you twist in.

We went to see a Night at the Museum tonight (original version--in English) and all of us really enjoyed it. We are just now able to venture outside cartoon territory with Maddie and the movies and it is really nice. They dub movies like that here in Germany, but I feel like the Germans are really missing something when they don't get Ben Stiller or Owen Wilson's real voice.

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