Earlier Michael discovered a store called “Hertie’s” and I read in Toytown that they have a food section that has some American stuff. Michael left work a little early today and we headed over there. We started off at Karlsplatz, then walked through the store so that we got to the Hauptbahnhof side and found the food area. Can you believe this store spans through 2 train stops? And it’s multi level too, although not all the levels are all the way across. Anyways, they had the most promising American food section, a lot more than the others that claimed to have a lot. They had some Campbells soup, but not the ones we eat, and also some Duncan Hines brownie mixes and baking soda, which apparently you can’t buy at a regular store? We are also on the lookout for softer bread. The “American” sandwich bread that they sell here is so hard! They look like normal, but when you open it, the crusts and edges are hard, like it’s stale. It’s not nice and soft like we’re used to. I guess maybe you’re supposed to buy stuff from the local bakery? But I haven’t seen sandwich bread there, just “speacialty” breads and the oh so delicious pastries! Our search continues… After that, we went to Michael’s work to hang out for awhile. The boys really like to play there, it is a big area with all kinds of stuff they can explore. Michael started a game with Rowan where Rowan would hold up his roll of paper (like wrapping paper) and put it in Michael’s mouth. Then he would spit it out and Rowan would put it back. It was the cause of much delight. I found out that the Harry Potter audio CD’s that I ordered through Amazon.de was cancelled and I was so mad because I just saw them at Hertie’s! So, Michael proposed to take the boys home while I go out and get the CD’s and then come home. Yay! Freedom for a few minutes! I also had to buy some formula to last through the long weekend. I did find the CD’s, they were dang expensive, but worth it. I figured it would be good for me to read Harry Potter in German, while listening to it in German. It was a good idea because it forced me to read very quickly and not translate or anything, just read. Instead of a tree this year, Michael bought a “christmas spirit” house thing that lights up. It’s a very cute dust collector. You should see the trees here, most of them are very small, and they don’t have the pretty douglas firs. A lot of trees are 2 - 3 ft. Because we don’t have cars to tie them to! It’s pretty rare to see one larger than 5′. Will we survive this weekend? We’re pretty sure things would be closed all weekend + Monday. This is the longest we’ve had to think about surviving!