What a nice quiet day–and finally not as much blogging! We got up astonishingly late (after 9 am!), caught up on various travel arrangements and other logistics (including with our Vodafone data plan–the first time ever that I have found a call center in some other part of the world WAY more useful than talking in person to a completely incompetent store employee), and had a lovely lunch downtown with my mom, at an Italian place in Osnabrueck’s Old Town. I even got my hair cut in anticipation of the conference that is our next travel goal, and we had a leisurely afternoon with coffee and a walk in my mom’s neighborhood through the woods and along the barley fields, with thunder grumbling in the background. Yay for a day that is not packed from top to bottom!