Italy and Life

April 15, 2012

I am FINALLY a pro at German grocery shopping! YAY! Let me give a little information about grocery shopping here… you need reusable bags. (If you don’t have any, then you have to buy them at the store.) Emma was my grocery bagger, but she could never keep up. Every trip I would say “Come on Emma hurry it up.”

Then I went shopping alone… and had to bag the groceries myself---- surprise surprise--- I couldn’t keep up. In my head I was thinking That cashier is rude… she was scanning my groceries at a 100 mph 160 kmh. I decided I needed to watch how other people were managing to bag their groceries… and the verdict is…… they don’t bag their groceries! I should have put them back in my cart and bagged them once I got to my car! It makes me laugh thinking about how many times I went to the store, held up the line, and bagged every last item! J Oops!

On Easter weekend we took our first big family vacation. We drove through the Swiss Alps, into Italy. and we stayed on Lake Como. I kept wondering…

“Is this real?”      “Am I dreaming?”

It was an eight-hour car ride, and the kids were behaved the WHOLE time. And I again asked myself    “Is this real?”   “Am I dreaming?” ha-ha They loved the mountains, and they LOVED Italy.

A couple side notes:

The other day Dave was pulled over by the police. A police car pulled in front of him, and a sign on the back on the car flashed  :::please pull over:::: so he did. Fortunately, it was a random pull over to make sure everything was legal. He didn’t get a ticket, but how crazy is that!!! I can’t imagine how I would have reacted.

Emma just completed a horse camp last week. She really enjoyed it and wants to do it again later in the summer. They taught her how to take care of the horses, and they did some riding.