There is no other route.
On a good note: I am working on a local theatre project at the moment "The Hobbit" and we just scheduled some additional performances because every date we set sold out within a matter of a couple of days! I have to make-up Thorin Oakenshield and the dwarfs, Beorn and as of next week Bilbo as well. (Bilbo is being played by 11 year old Amelie and she is fantastic!!!!!!!)
Here are some pictures of the play . Keep in mind that this that this is a production staged mainly by children and teenagers. And yes, Tolkien would turn in his grave if he new of the liberties they took when adapting the book for the stage but I think it is great and all people involved (well over 100) are doing an incredible job!Double shame on me by the way!
Neither have I made that phone call to VW nor have I taken down the Christmas tree...
Mainly due to the fact that I wasn't in most of yesterday and today and also me forgetting that today is a holiday in Bavaria (Three Kings Day/Epiphany). Which also made lunch an adventure.
We cooked and had lunch at my mums today. I had thawed some minced beef which my younger daughter only eats in form of burgers or in lasagna (both of which hide the fact that it "looks like worms" according to her). So we were going to make beefburgers today. We were going to buy the tomatoes and the lettuce and the buns on out way to my mums but of course, it being a holiday, the shops were shut. (And yes there are countries where the shops aren't open 24/7. Bavaria is strictly against it. The rest of Germany wants to loosen shop opening laws. I think Bavaria will be the last State to follow suit, if at all.) So I already had the moans in the car all the way to my mums (going past "my house" btw...). When we got there I raided my mums cupboards and fridge. We ended up making burgers without buns with a side of boiled potatoes and green beans. It tasted lovely but it wasn't what the kids wanted so I still got the "but you said we were going to have burgers" through a mouthful of food. Well we did! Just not they way they had envisaged them!!!
On Thursday I bought two games at the local shop. They are a sort of cheap version of Trivial Pursuit for children. One is about space and one about the other one about Technology. We have been playing the space version a few times since and the girls took it with them when I took them to work with me today (after the lunch at my mums).
Some of my dwarfs played it with them and I was so proud of my daughters! They actually remembered a lot of the questions from the two times we had played the games previously. And the questions aren't all easy or would you have know what an apogee and a perigee is and which is which. Or what the German space shuttle carrier rockets are called!
Well I was quite amazed anyways!
After I was finished we went round a friends house where my kids behaved like they hadn't eaten for years and ate one slice of bread with pate after another. (What must people think of me...) we had a good time and because they had behaved so well while I was at work I bought them both a magazine at the petrol station (about the only place you will find open today apart from of course the restaurants and pubs and clubs). They were so happy they even did their chores when we came home without me having to remind them 10 times, got themselves ready for bed and listen to the audio book CD which was attached to one of their Magazines.
Hooray for me! O got at least somewhat of a chance to relax and wind down. I am so glad school starts again on Monday!
PS I have edited this post seven times now. I guess today is not my day so if there are any more mistakes I haven't spotted please tell me!
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