Just a few more weeks till we go home.
Now that we are well into July we have to earnestly prepare to go back to Virginia. The last few weeks have been full of graduations, parties and good-byes. On July 2, our youngest son's friends threw him a small party for his birthday and gave him a really cool remote control helicopter.
The next day I went on a walking tour of Münster led by someone from the Uni who studies German women's history. One interesting tidbit was the fact that a couple of hundred years ago one of the churches here in Münster unwittingly performed the first same-sex wedding. Of course as soon as the couple was found out, he was burned to death and she was cast out of society, never to be heard from again.
As we were walking, we came across this tree which had Red Bulls tied to it, supplied by the student organization - would you guess that we are in the final weeks of school?
A few days later we travelled to back to Hannover to see the graduation of one of our exchange daughters. It was our last trip to Hannover and we were sad to say good bye to our friends there that have been instrumental in making our time here so wonderful.
We also finally made it to the Münster Zoo. We have had tickets all year, but wanted to wait till we had a nice day to use them. Since we ran out of time, we just had to use them and hope we were not rained on (we were, but not too much).
One of the restaurants had "American" style hot dog which included mustard, ketchup, French fried onions, lettuce, and pickles.
One of the many playgrounds at the zoo had this really tall slide.
We also found this awesome swing that swings like a dragon.
In one of the bird areas you could walk inside and feed the birds.
Even though we are in the middle of July, the temperature is in the 60's and it has been raining. We saw this wolf huddled against a fence.
The zoo is very proud of their dolphins. It is amazing how many animals this zoo has even though Münster itself is not a big city.
I am not exactly sure what this playground attraction is, but my son sure had a great time!
We have seen this style of swing a few times - fun for kids of all ages!
We have created a life for ourselves here that we are really going to miss. Next week we'll take a trip to Norway via the ferry, then back home for a few days before we leave for our other home.
