Lots going on

On Friday evening we went to the US Embassy for a pumpkin decorating party. It was fun to hang out inside the fortress so to speak. Everyone decorated and ran around like crazies. I drank a MGD. N. had animal crackers and nilla wafers. It's nice to be on American soil from time to time. Even though the beer was awful. But then again, it's about the same as Feldschlösschen.

Yesterday we finally made it to the Ludothek. How awesome is this! It's essentially a library. Ok, it is a library. But far less official. Books, CDs, movies .. the usual. And we have one just down the street above the COOP. And ours has toys! So we can check out really big and expensive toys for up to a month for very cheap. We came home with a Playmobile zoo with something like a 1000 pieces, and a Mickey Mouse Club themed Brio train set. N. Has his first library card now. Oddly, you actually sign up the kid instead of the parents. Also in typical CH fashion, adult memberships come in 40 different varieties of books only, digital media only, books and DVDs, books and CDs etc etc.

Also made it to the book store. Picked up a few kids books for N. and I was finally able to pick up a little light reading for myself. We've been so busy it's been hard to do the book store browse.

And today we are heading off to the opening of the new bear pits. They closed them about a year ago because they were sad and pathetic. The new environment is supposedly awesome and does not make one think animal cruelty. Two cute cuddly bears were provided by nice Scandinavians.