Lazy Sunday

Finally a few pics of Josie!!

Sundays here are often quite lazy.  Everything is closed.  All grocery stores, malls, drug stores, etc.  There is a quiet that comes over the town - at least in our area.  There are fewer people in cars and more on the streets walking and biking.  At first I really disliked this as I felt I would somehow need something at the store and not be able to get it.  It turns out that I've always been just fine.  Restaurants are typically open and the local produce stand under the Sbahn is open and bakeries are open in the morning.  So if I really needed something I could get it but it really was something to get used to.

I have to say that now with over a year of it,  I love the quietness that typically accompanies a Sunday here.  On this particular Sunday, since the kids were sleeping away, I walked to a local coffee shop to get a cup of coffee and some bread.  We both got some work done, read an then walked to the Sbahn to meet the kids as they were getting off the Sbahn returning from their sleep over the night before.  Once we got down off the platform, Benjamin says he is STARVING.  There happens to be a currywurst stand open so we stop and Benjamin eats the wurst and Josie eats the fries.  We walk home and have a few house of chilled time - all of us reading- before talking off for a friends house for dinner in Kleinmachnow.

I met Gillian through a German forum while we were both still living in the States and trying to figure out things about Berlin and schools, etc while still living our old lives.  We bonded and then ended up living about a 15 minute bike ride away from one another.
They served up some of the YUMMIEST food!!  It truly hit everyone's hot buttons.  So SO yummy.  Gillian and Andy have two kids similar ages as Josie and Benjamin.  The kids hit it off and the adults had a nice evening of conversation.  What a treat to have such good friends.  Thanks, Hargreaves!!