Today we went shopping again. Michael bought a magazine called “New in the city” and it tells you all kinds of places to go. There was a store called “Basic”, which is Europe’s largest organic store chain and a little shopping mall that has artists doing their thing and selling it. Since they were both by the Marienplatz, I decided to go to both. Today was the first day that I actually missed a train because of people not moving fast enough. I thought usually if there are people still going in the train the operator would wait but I guess not. I was trying to get on towards the end because I was only going one stop and usually I like to hop on at the end so that I’m the first to get out at the stop. That totally backfired, the people getting on were super slow and no one would make room for me and my huge stroller. They just stared and watched the door close. Bastards! No big deal, the next train was only a couple of minutes behind. Going to the Viktualienmarkt is always a good thing, lots of food and fresh stuff, although finding fresh herbs is pretty hard. Everyone has chives, parsley and cilantro, but it’s hard to find fresh basil, believe it or not. I am excited to get my little garden going and it’s going to be all herbs, herbs, herbs! I wish I could grow tomatoes too, but I don’t think I get enough light. I went to a store called “basic” and it claims to be Europe’s largest organic grocery store chain. It was a really nice store, fairly small, but it certainly was the largest amount of organic selection I have seen so far. Great produce too. Although the pears looked a little funky. I really need to get a food and shopping German-English translation guide. Trying to find parmesian cheese is tough. They have “pizza” cheese and “pasta” cheese, gouda, etc. It’s hard to figure out stuff. They also have a shortage of frozen organic vegetables (for the boys). Bummer. Anyways, I found some fresh green onions not frozen and chopped up into little bits with no taste in a box. After that store, I went to this other mall, I can’t remember the name of it. It isn’t really a MALL mall, it’s just a little shopping building that has little booths of stuff. Half of them are restaurants that look like they have some good things to try, and the other half are little stores with stuff. It was one of the more interesting places I have been so far. I was quite pleased with today’s outing. Usually I am so disappointed with not finding what I want or the place is not what I imagined it to be, so that’s good. Also, I got my sonicare today! My first German ebay purchase!

BTW, on my way here, I brought my Burger King cheeseburgers to the internet place and sat down at a table in the eating section and this jerk guy yelled out to me “ey! you can’t do that, you can’t eat your own food here”. I was going to try and figure something smart to do like put my burger down and just drink my coke which I bought from him a couple of seconds before, but just stepped outside and finished my cheeseburgers. Luckily it’s not all that cold tonight. I mean it’s one thing if there are people waiting to eat at a free table, but it’s another if there is NO ONE eating and I did buy a drink from him and I did pay for some internet time too. Geez!