This past week and weekend went by rather quickly for the both of us. Last Wednesday we had a sitter, her name is Mwanso, and we went out to dinner with Gary and Tammy. He's a civilian contractor based out of Hill AFB. They have been living here for three years and are on their way back to the states. Anyhow, we tried a new restaurant and it was pretty neat. Yet another underground establishment and the food was good. You would never know it exists if you didn't read about in the local "In Your Pocket" guidebook. So many places here are hidden downstairs.
Thursday night Erik went out with the guys. He tried to tip-toe his way back in after 0200 and got up for work at 0530. I'm most certain he wasn't on top of his game at work, no flying involved of course.
Friday I took the kids to their first play date. It was with two German Moms, Katrin and Petra. The children were Vivienne (21mon), Max (3yr) and Victoria (5yr). It was fun to meet new people and make connections for future activities. Driving to Petra's house was interesting, she lived on the other side of the city near the Volkswagen Plant. The traffic wasn't too friendly getting there, pedestrians are crazy brave. This coming Friday we will meet at Katrin's house and it's up north from where I live, so that will be most likely a 25-30min drive.
Friday night there was a bigger going away dinner for Gary and Tammy. I'd say there were 11 adults and five kids, all American. It was interesting to see how parents allow their children to run wild in a restaurant with no regard to the staff. Both Erik and I wanted to put blindfolds on our kids eyes so they couldn't see the behavior. The dinner was good, expensive (for being here) , so most likely won't be going up there again.
Saturday we walked the kids to a park and let them play at the playground. It's a HUGE park with little lakes full of ducks, tons of paths and even a hotel in the middle of the park. I can't wait to go back when the weather warms up, if that ever happens. I'll have to look into the park name/history and post that later. It was about a 15min walk from our flat. It's going to be really pretty when the trees actually bloom. We had lunch at McDonalds (so healthly), came home and the kids napped for four hours! I've finally have them into one big fat nap a day. After they woke we walked down the street to find a new restaurant to try (listed in our guidebook). The four of us had a nice quiet dinner, kids behaved awesomely as usual. This place was downstairs too. We got there at about 515pm for dinner and we were one of three tables. Slowly the place was filling up around us. Then there was a HUGE line of people waiting to go down when we came up the stairs! So it must be a popular spot for the locals? We walked home, the sitter showed up at 1930 and we went out again. This time my friend Kasia and her husband picked us up. We went out to their house and visited until 0100. Finger foods and wine...too much wine.
Sunday was a lazy unmotivated day. The only thing we did was our weekly trip to the grocery store. We eat a cheap and yummy dinner at the hot deli in the back corner of the store. The four of us eat lots of food for $5!
So that about sums up the last week.
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