German Living

Thursday night, Maddie and I headed to IKEA for a hot dog and ice cream dinner. Ikea has American-style hot dogs and they'll sell you a dog and a drink for 1 euro 50 cents. So the two of us ate for 3 euros. Then Maddie had a one euro ice cream cone, so that bumped up our total cost.

Friday I went in to Maddie's class with cupcakes for the kids to decorate. They're finishing up their unit on how to be a good friend, so each kid got to make a cupcake and then draw a name for the person they were to give the cupcake to. Maddie has 19 kids in her class with TEN countries represented: Germany, England, USA, the Netherlands, Kuwait, India, Austria, Korea, Belgium and Romania. It's amazing. Maddie's teacher is just ridiculously good at what she does. The kids and the class are really impressive.


Maddie and friend Riley (both USA)

Constantine (Germany), Yassir (Kuwait) and Arvin (India)

Ava (USA), Salome (Begium) and Leah (USA)

Last night was nice, so we met friends at Pizzaria Roma's and let the kids play on the playground. Thankfully it wasn't MY kid who decided to climb up in the tallest tree she could find (that would be my friend Joy's daugher, Madison).

Tonight Maddie and I are headed to the movies to see Hairspray. The dialogue will be in German, but the songs are in English and Maddie love the soundtrack, so it should be fun. We pick Skip up at the airport early Sunday morning.