End of First Week Celebration

On Friday we planned to go to our favorite ice cream shop to

celebrate a successful end to the kids' first week of 3rd and 6th grades.  Benjamin had already invited Clayton over for an after school play date so we thought how much more fun would the celebration be if he could invite his best buddy.  And then, because the boys had their first soccer practice the next morning at 9AM we thought,

well, why doesn't Clayton just stay the night.  Thankfully, his mom agreed to our very last minute plan and the boys couldn't have been happier.  It was Benjamin's first sleep over here in Germany but probably only his second ever in his life.

Josie also had made plans with her good friend, Aurora, to come over after school and because they also had soccer practice the following day, it made sense to have Aurora spend the night too.  Other than a huge fight between the kids on which movie to watch, it was all rather uneventful and they all had fun.  And, most importantly, they were all asleep by 10PM!

We made the mistake last year when we celebrated with ice cream after Benjamin was accepted into JFK of each ordering our own ice cream concoctions.  It started out so awesome.  WOW!  These huge ice cream creations for 5 Euro a piece.  Yum!  But halfway through we realized it was just way too much.  This time we ordered 3 to share between the 6 of us and it was still way too much!!  Too much but still very VERY yummy.  Here is to a great new school year!!