DAY ONE - Off to a Good Start

•  1.  Eat French Toast
•  2. See the city (pigs, Roland, magician, Rathaus, Dom, Schnoor)
•  3.  Eat Bratwurst
•  4.  Play
•  5.  Eat French Fries
•  6.  Watch USA win
•  7.  Eat Ice Cream
•  8.  Watch Germany win
•  9.  Eat Spaghetti
• 10. Sleep

Sleeping "in" is relative.  I got up at 8am after the usual sleepless interludes plus a visit from Hannah in the night- first she joined me in bed and then on the floor next to me. Hunter stumbled into the shower shortly after 9, the girls within 30 minutes of that.  Actually, I thought that was pretty early considering the day before. But it was sleep enough.


My breakfast suggestion of French (!) toast was enthusiastically seconded by everyone, so we had fresh strawberries and French toast with syrup, powdered sugar, cinnamon sugar and combinations thereof. Y U M. We'd thought we needed to go into the city to buy helmets, but then Neighbors to the Rescue !  Gerd and Renate have several extras, and there were two that fit Hannah and Hunter to a "t" saving us time and effort finding new ones.  Cool!  Thanks Gerd and Renate!


To the train and into the city. We see all the regular sites and would you believe it - the magician was on the steps of the Rathaus!  He entertained us with his tricks and the kids were tickled to see him again.  We found ice cream, we fed the hole in the ground where the Bremen Town Musicians sing, we saw the spitting stone, Hannah found a teeeeennny bear, Kenley took a load of pictures, and Hunter FINALLY had a Bratwurst after almost 24 hours in Bremen.  When we went into the Dom, a nice old man asked if we wanted to climb to the tower.  Well, yeah.  That was a first for Werner, can you believe.  And it's not hard to believe that my legs were a bit wobbly after  265 steps up and then down.  Wow.

Walk around the Schnoor and lollygag in the Stone Shop then RUSH to the train so we can watch the USA play in the WM  (yeah team!) but not really so much because Alisa was home and it was more fun to play with her and then FINALLY we get to take a bike ride and eat dinner and a salad with flowers and watch GERMANY win and then listen to more of the story and go to bed and that is all for today!  The end.


PS Hunter says bring a jacket, but it looks like it's getting warmer.