Family Life

I'm a little behind, so here goes a Blitzupdate!

Halloween happened in Germany, a lot of people didn't get the memo. Luckily, Lena, the lil sis, threw a party with some of her frightening friends:

They were able to go trick or treating and to watch the Adams family.  I think only one group of kids came to the house- but apparently it is growing within Germany.  My Vater zu mir sagt dass it only for 10 years been celebrated has.

On a Saturday morning we visited the graves of my Mother's parents and brothers.  The priest and entire community were present to see the resting places of their loved ones blessed.

Saturday was also a big game for soccer. BVB (Dortmund) played against the evil empire that is known as Bayern Munich.  Fabi was very excited and made us all wear something from the team. Unfortunately, we happened to lose.

On Sunday we had a family outing to a zipline park.  It was pretty awesome! I didn't have high expectations and was very surprised by how difficult and thrilling some of the obstacles were.  It was also a beautiful day to spend in the trees next to a lake.

Some people were too slow for Fabi:

The kid before us cried when his parents pushed him off over the lake:

After the zipline park, the family (minus pops) went to an all-you-can-eat sushi bar.  He didn't want to go because it would mean that he implicitly supports gluttony.

It was awesome though.  There was an Ipad we used to order; every 15 minutes everyone was allowed to order 5 items from the menu.  For every item not consumed, there was a huge fee- needless to say we made sure we cleaned our plates.  Fabian and I lasted 6 rounds. I may have eaten 1-2 pounds of raw fish.

TIMELINE BREAK

The cats are always happy when we come home from school and work:

And every evening I'm pretty much this excited for whatever my host mom has prepared (add drool though):

*** Reality TV dating show concepts are bizarre in Germany (more so than just the fact that the idea everywhere is a little weird and contrived).  Sexy Beasts is competing against naked truth (self explanatory) and some other gems, I've heard***