Two Weekend Roundup

There'ss been a lot of rain these past weeks, but somehow, when you're six and eight that's no limit to limitless fun. Like going to the open door day of the LKA (the German equivalent to the FBI) with school-buddy TOm, where they had the famous Lamborghini from the Italian highway police as a guest.

Which couldn't compete with a visit to the ballistics department.

Where they of course have a lot of guns.

And where they demonstrated how they shoot into a tank of water, film it superslowmotion and then identify the gun it was shot from.

Back home it was supposed to be a slow pizza night with some card games.... Fred was visiting her parents in Bensheim, so it was a weekend for the boys, that's where the emphasis on guns, Pizza and gambling came in. Anyway, just about when we were ready to go to bed the neighbors called that there would be a magic show next door.

Christoph, our neighbor Lissie's son, is a professional magician and he had given his stepdad/our neighbor Alfred a big show at home for his birthday. Karl and Henri of course where a great audience. Henri got to the trick....

....where a ball of fire is turned into....

.....a red rubber ball!

Karl also got his turn. He had to safguard and squeeze hard that red rubber ball.

Just to find out that there were two of those in his hand!

Pure magic....

...followed by a fire acrobatics show in the garden done by Christoph's acrobat friends.

Fast forward a week to yesterday. There was Kindergarten rally, but Karl and Tom and Oliver got to tag along as alumni.

Somehow all that quaint neighborhood life makes us doubt we're actually still in Munich proper. Which we are. Despite appearances.

Anyway, lots of challenges and riddles on the way.

Some races.

Afterwards the boys just hung out in the garden....

...with a brief stint to the ice cream parlor.

Today the weather was truly miserable, so we took Karl's after school pogram-buddy Phillipp to the new Stars Wars exhibition with lots of interactive stuff and costumes and space racers on display.

It was a lot of fun (but also way too dark to photograph):

Currywurst and fries for lunch.

And since we parked at the BMW center also a short visit of their motorcyle display.

All too gender specific those adventures of the young and rambunctious? Well. Boys will be boys...