This afternoon we walked to the mall. There is a great indoor playground there where you can pay by the hour and let kids just run wild. Since bathrooms are free- woo hoo- no paying a Euro ($1.25) each time (!), with a potty training toddler it’s pretty much a wash even though you have to pay to play.
Today was Austin’s first day of school. In usual German school fashion they went on a field trip of which I was completely unaware. There is a circus training school in Cambodia that had partnered with Austin’s German school and the whole school walked and saw a preview performance today in town. Many of the kids recognized Austin from last year and he has a really good day. This evening he had even switched over to talking to me in German sometimes.
Tomorrow is a long day. Maddie Sue and Austin will be picked up at school by their babysitter and spend the evening with her and her kids while I take a train in the morning with the SMU students to Leipzig for a day filled with a walking city tour, a tour of the Mendelsohn house and in the evening a classical concert by the famous Gewandhaus Orchestra. We take a chartered bus back to Weimar, but still don’t get home again until well past midnight. I don’t mind the length of the day, I’m just hoping that the reports of pouring rain storms prove to be wrong because it's been my painfully learned experience that city tours go on regardless of the weather.
