Theatre, Atari, school preparations and looking forward to friends visiting.

We lapped up the continued fabulous weather the last few days of the summer holidays provided by going to see the classic german story, "Emil und die Detektive" at the Freilichtbuhne (outside theatre) in Billerbeck. A combined Familie Bearmonkeymouse and Familie N excursion is always fun and as this is probably the last time we'll get the kids to go to kids theatre the mums relished the moment, the Herr with his worry of amatuer theatre which are more acute when it is childrens theatre got to see what we love about it. I went underprepared ie I remembered the kids and the tickets and when your kid sees a family walk in with an esky your blood runs cold because you know the next question. Luckily Frau N had a bag of sweets which we eeked out between 9 people.

We visited the kindergarten that all the kids have attended during our years in Germany, caught up with a couple of their past teacher and tried the bike that they all played on only to really realise how much they have grown.

 

In our French infrastructure programme The Arc de Triomphe was assembled and the streets radiating out started to take shape. No visitors have helped with this puzzle, we are on our own by the looks of it. Our eyes definitely suffered but the bight summer sun help see the tiny grey lines.

The Bear finally worked out how to attach his prized possession the Atari he bought at his favourite place in the world the video game shop in Enschede to a modern TV. Thanks to the patient guy in the electronics shop and you tube he found out he had to tune a TV into the right stations...Both the Herr and I had forgotten about this step as it is automatic now but it was a regular occurance in our teenage years. You don't know the happiness we all felt at seeing the screen below. (Update: we now own Frogger too!)

Lastly we did the pilgrimage to get all the school supplies sorted for the new school year to start on the 29th of August. We have done this before so all the numbers and line types were code we understood. 

Now - 2018

Then - 2014

And we started planning all the fun things to do with Family M who we are very excited to be seeing and showing around our wonderful town...on bikes of course.