Big Debut

It was Karl's debut with his theater group today! Great show. The kids had written a play together called "Das verwunschene Dorf" (the enchanted village).

Karl had two major lead roles. First he was the mayor, a scene which even included a very funny (and daring) stunt.

His second role was the magician who saves the village.

After the play there was a game parents could be part of. You had to make each other laugh, the other one trying not to.

And here they are, not tomorrow's, but today's stars of Eastern Munich's theater!

School's On For Henri!

Today was Henri's farewell party at the Kindergarten.

The kids had rehearsed some songs and a pretty elaborate dance performance.

They rocked! (of course)

They have a great tradition, after the performance they swing each kid back and forth and sing a song about releasing them into their school life....

....at the end they're kinda thrown out....

....and get their "Schultüte" (a cone shaped bag they make themselves that gets filled with candy and little gifts on first school day).

Henri was second and got to watch all the other kids getting thrown out.

He sure was proud of his Schultüte.

Damn proud! (now that both our kids are leaving the Catholic daycare system to enter state run schools we can cuss again).

Bye, bye Angelika and Susanne (and Florin, who's gonna go to a different school).

And yes it's fantastic and great, but also a tiny bit sad that this part of childhood is now officially over.

Bar Hopping

It started to rain again. Not some nice summer drizzle, but this weird monsoonish downpour preceded by Texas prairie style cloud formations. Anyway, bars and joints were visited. Like Cafe Cosmos above, where Nick, the guy who started Fred's boxing club, had a show of friends' boxing paintings.

The afternoon Henri got go with dad to the ice cream parlor all by himself, since Karl didn't want ice cream (don't worry , he's not sick, he wanted and got to eat his chocolate).

Dinner? After the art show we were off to have some nachos, quesadillas and tacos at Taco Libre near the train station. What's not to like?!