We stayed in bed a little longer this morning and then, after breakfast, looked through some of the stuff that my mom is still storing for me in her attic. I decided to keep most of it (books and some xerox copies, as well as things like my report cards dating all the way back to grade school), and to take a few notes and travel journals I didn’t realize I still had back to the States. Then Mark and I walked downtown again, in order to run a few errands and gather Andrea from the train station at about 11:30. When we were in Hamburg, it turned out that she was going to visit her family in the hometown where we both grew up, and she was able to start a day early and hang out with us for the day. We took her to lunch at a Chinese restaurant and also went to a hat shop, where Andrea found a very nice Panama hat for herself. Then we took the bus home, and after a little unpacking on Andrea’s part, we took off for a walk around the lake that ended up by a garden cafe that we all like really well, and Imke, Uschi, who had driven up from Oldenburg for the afternoon, and Kai joined us there for ice cream and coffee. Then we all walked home and sat in the garden until dinner time, where Imke had provided a wonderful spread of cheeses and cold cuts as usual. We sat around and chatted until it was time for Uschi to say goodbye (we won’t see her again before we leave), and then went to bed pretty soon after.