Reunification

Yesterday was the anniversary of the day that Germany offically became reunified between East and West. We enjoyed a day off from school too! When it is a holiday here, nothing is open and you do not do any yard work or laundry of any kind. You simply rest. This is still a concept that we are getting use to. Some families I heard traveled across the boarder to France to do some shopping since it wasn't a holiday there but we just stayed put. We were invited over to some German friends home for a belated pasta meal that was postponed from a previous date. Our friends twin boys have recently joing the junior voulnteer fire fighter bridgage in Kandern. I still don't understand the concept as it seems that every young boy between the age 13 and 16 must do this but it appears to be a city club as well. They let Jacob and and Sarah try on their outfits before they left.

After playing a few card games we ate some ice cream and then left to put Sarah down for her nap.
Tomorrow night, Jeff and I will be traveling with these same friends to a Michael W. Smith concert. They invited us to go with them so I am interested to see what they think of this American guy dancing about on the stage. It should be fun. The kids are going to be look after by a couple from our church so we have free babysitting. We plan to get back very late from the concert and I hope to have some pictures taken to post on my next blog.