Well, we made it through the first full week of school. I have not raised a strong, independent child. After a week of struggling to get Maddie fed, dressed and out the door WITH her backpack and lunch in tow, I commented that I didn't think I was going to make it through 12 more years of this. Maddie asked what I meant by that. When I told her that in 12 years she'd be 18 and off to college where she'd have to get her self up and out the door in the morning, she totally panicked. Skip and I had to promise that she could stay home for as long as she wants. Hope that doesn't come back to bite us!
Our big treat this weekend is that friend Katie (who Maddie says is a really good taper) taped the American premiers of High School Musical 2 and mailed it to us. It won't make it to British or German Disney until the last week in Septmeber. For those of you unfamiliar with the HSM phenomenom, just know that this was a BIG DEAL!
Skip and cousin Torsten have season tickets to all the homes games of BVB--the Dortmund soccer team, but Torsten is out of town this weekend, so I get his ticket. Just me and Skip and 80,000 German soccer fans. Maddie is going to stay with Torsten's wife Elke while we're at the game.
Just as an interesting cultural note: while we're at the game in Dormund, about 30 minutes away in Essen just as many people will be gathering for the annual Love Parade--Germany's largest gay pride parade. Can you imagine if the trains got mixed up and delivered the wrong people to the wrong event?
2 comments:
Hi Anne,
good to hear from you again. But I must correct you, the Love parade is not the gay pride parade. It's the biggest Techno music parafde and party in the world. The gay parde is the christopher street day parade.
cheers Stephan
Yes, the cousins corrected me on that one. The Love Parade will be in Dortmund next year
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