End of Winter Break Fun

To celebrate (again) the end of our staycation we decided to surprise the kids with a couple of fun outings on the last Saturday of break.  Josie has been wanting to go to the Berlin Jump house for months and it is no where near our house so we kept dragging our feet.  Saturday was the day!  We packed up and heading on the bus to the train to a bus to the Jump House. 

The long journey (about an hour and 15 minutes)was definitely worth.  The kids jumped and jumped and jumped and sweated and jumped.  They had so much fun!!
At the end of the their jumping we told them we had another surprise for them.  Josie then said "Well, I don't know what it is but it could NEVER be better than this!!"  It is always nice for things like this to be appreciated. 

We jumped on the bus again and after a quick lunch headed toward Potsdamer P

latz.  We had yet to go to the movie theater here to see a movie.  We've been meaning to go we just haven't.  When I heard that the movie Wonder was playing here in English I knew this should be our first English movie in Berlin.  I had read the book a couple of years ago to the kids over a few week period before they went to bed each night.  We all loved the book and they were actually BOTH (it is always hard to please both at the same time) thrilled to get to see the movie. 

What thrilled them more was that there was some family pass that for just 2 or 3 Euro more you got snacks.  Like 3 huge bags of popcorn, large drinks for all and some other candy.  At this point I think the kids would have been fine to just eat the snacks.  They informed me that this was only the second time they actually had theater snacks at a movie. The other time was with Liz and Ed.  Normally I sneak in a bag or two of popcorn and a bottle water. 

Oh, they are so deprived😆
We all LOVED the movie.  Of course the book is always better as was true with this but the movie was so sweet and so good.  I think Marty I cried from the opening scene to the final scene. 
After the movie we headed back to our neck of the woods and tried out a new (to us) Greek

restaurant.  Ever since have such delicious food in Athens we have been wanting to eat Greek again.  This place was just OK.  We will likely go back but we are still in search of real, authentic Greek.  I have a friend who lives more in the center and they say they have a great Greek restaurant near them.  Hopefully we can join up with them there soon.

All in all, a really super fun day with the kids.  And to top it off they were overly appreciative of everything.
OK, I would still have loved to travel somewhere else but I have to admit this break week ranks in the tops of school vacations.