We couldn't wait to go through the food stash that David brought back. There were our favorite pancake and cookie mixes, Jif peanut butter and Kraft original macaroni and cheese. Our "nice" grocery store here has a few shelves of American products -- generic peanut butter and mac-n-cheese, Bisquick, Hershey's syrup, brownie mix, Newmann's salad dressing, Campbell's tomato soup -- but it's all very, very pricey. I just can't bring myself to pay $3.50 for a box of mac and cheese that doesn't even taste that good. It doesn't help that the dollar is the lowest it has ever been and still dropping. Everything keeps getting more and more expensive.
I took Guinness for a walk and we made our regular loop. We go past the chickens, playground and tennis courts, cross a bridge over the Liederbach and then make our way back by a soccer field and through some horse pastures. We have had horses being walked right down the street in front of our house several times. We were invited by a colleague of David's for cake and coffee, a late afternoon tradition. This family moved last year from Atlanta to Frankfurt and their two children are also enrolled at the international school. The dad is German and the mom British, so we would get a well-rounded view of life here.
We received a lot of information about the school -- the sports program, required after-school activities, etc. -- as well as about adult German classes and life here in general. When they heard my horrors stories about getting lost every time I left the house, they offered me the use of their navigating system for the car. So, on the way home, we hooked it up, programed in our address and let the voice lead us home. This could be my salvation. David said he will look into getting us one.
Micaela and James both remarked that they were happy they already knew two kids from school.
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