Welcome Dinner
Weimar City Tour between bouts of rain
Weimar Town Square- Town Hall in background- our apartment is the left pink building- floors 4 and 5.
Windy Day
Italian pizza yesterday and Italian ice cream today. Thank God for immigration.Maddie Sue and Austin both slept in until 11 this morning, which was a real blessing since Maddie Sue was chipper and talking up a storm from 2-5 a.m. this morning. Since the stores were still closed we settled on French fries, ice cream and a banana a woman at the bakery gave Maddie Sue when Maddie complained that she hadn’t had any healthy food since we left the States.
This afternoon we met up with the SMU students and had a 2-hour walking tour of Weimar by a dramatic guide named “Dieter.” Although the skies opened up and poured down rain twice, we were able to take cover under the huge Ginkgo trees Goethe brought over from Asia that now line many of the streets of Weimar. Then, this evening we hosted a nice welcome dinner for the SMU students at the Residence Palace Restaurant.
Tomorrow Maddie Sue starts pre-school and our students begin their first day of classes. I have put Maddie Sue down to bed, which she doesn’t understand since the sun is still shining despite it being nearly 9 p.m.. Austin is watching soccer on television. He gets to stay up longer since I promised him that he could wait to begin school until Wednesday since I apparently forgot to pack him underwear. He only just now shared with me that he’s been going commando since we arrived. I wonder if he hadn't been about to start school tomorrow and trying to get one extra vacation day how long he would have waited to tell me.
