Sunday, June 8

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We slept longer than I have slept in a long time, until 8:45, so all the walking clearly is taking a toll on us. Kai, however, was already up and playing another Playstation game, “Infamous: Second Son,” which I liked a whole lot less than “Flowers,” but which he was clearly very hooked on. He did stop to have breakfast with us, but stayed behind to play some more while we adults took a walk in a nearby park for about an hour and a half until we all got too hot and sticky. We saw a turtle and some other interesting wildlife, and had a good time chatting but were all clearly starting to wilt by about noon. We were back at the apartment around 1 pm, had a quick lunch and then were on our way again–Andrea accompanied us to the central station just to be nice, and got a kick out of Kai reading a book Peter had given him on the movie Time Bandits while walking (she said it reminded her of me at the age of 14, always with my nose in a book). The train home came in on time but had some fairly major delays on the short trip to Osnabrueck, but since we didn’t have any connections to catch, it really wasn’t a big deal. We got to Imke’s at around 7 and had a lovely bread-and-cold cuts meal; it had cooled off a little bit after a sticky day, so Mark and I took a short walk before turning in, which was a nice quiet end to our day.