Our typical day in Germany

Top, an old church shown how it was damage and not fully restored after WWII, under that, me with the boys outside the Cologne City Museum in the town's old Armory. Below, Alisa pushing the stroller as we walk away from our train stop to head back to the apartment.

Now that we are in more of a routine, I thought I'd share what our typical day is like in Germany.

*Wake up with the kids between 8:00 a.m. and 9:00 a.m. and make breakfast, get the kids and us dressed.

*10:30 a.m. Get the stroller packed up with snacks and diaper bag and head out of the apartment.

*Leave by 11:00 a.m. if its a Monday, Thursday, or Friday, we are likely headed to the grocery store first on foot to get food for the week or weekend and give the maid enough time to make up the room. Come back to the apartment and then go for a walk on the river pathways or go look around at other parts of the city via train.

*If its any other day or we have lots of left overs, we walk about half a mile to the train stop and head into central Koln to do some walking around/shopping/sight seeing.

*Between 4:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m. head back to the apartment via the Train or on foot if we are close by.

*Have some down time with the kids, watch some German Television, or CNN in English, or MTV in English.

*Between 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m. Alisa starts cooking us an awesome healthy dinner.

*8:00 p.m. till bedtime: Catch up on the internet, make any necessary calls to the US, see Andrew after his long day of work :)

Today was a little different. We DROVE into central Koln, had some lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe (only the 3rd meal in 2 weeks that we did not eat at the apartment), dropped Andrew off after at Microsoft, then I drove us to Bonn to check out the area more of where our house will be. We parked the car at the train station and we met up with our relo agent who showed us around some of the Bonn center highlights. Bought some food at the Bio Market (awesome all organic market with lots of gluten free stuff), then drove back to the apartment for a little tea and a snack :)

Yesterday we went to three museums which we trained it into central Koln and then walked all over the place to get between the museums. We saw the modern art museum, the Roman-German museum, and the Museum of the City of Koln.