Would you like a salad at the snack stand? That'll be 45 minutes.

Today I woke up after having slept for 12 hours, so I was feeling pretty good about life, haha. Frauke and I, along with her friends, and of course her kids, headed to a nearby lake. It has a play structure, our main reason for choosing it. It gives the kids something to do. When we got there we found out there was admission-2.50 Euro for adults. The kids got in free. Makes no sense, right? As Antje said, it's not as if we're going to go on the play structure or something.

But anway, there we did put our feet in the lake, was nice, and the surroundings were beautiful. Problems did end up coming our way, however, when we sat down to eat. We ordered food at the snack stand, and then proceeded to wait for it. While others who ordered after us were getting their food, we were still waiting. And during this time, Jan fell over on a chair, Thies was complaining about being hot, and Maya was crying because she was hungry. They are kids, it's to be expected. It's just difficult when you're trying to help, but you can't, because all they want is their mom. Anyway, we did get our food after we complained. My greek salad was good, but the other food wasn't all that great, so they eventually took it back and had them do it again. Rightly so....

Later in the afternoon I went swimming with Peter and Steffi, two of Frauke's friends. It was really refreshing to be able to take a dip in the water after such a hot morning/early afternoon. Our surroundings were the Harz mountains, and I was reminded again how lucky I am to be here. I absolutely love it here ;)

So after I graduate, am I going to be an Au Pair for 6 months? You bet...because there is no way I'm going to start working...2 weeks off in a year is just too little!

Love from the Harz (haha, I mean the Harz mountains),

Molly