I found out this morning that we are going to get a big tax refund! WOW, first time in years. Some years we were so happy just to not have to pay. So, we’re going to immediately spend most of it to buy our tickets to visit family and friends during Christmas time. I didn’t go to the morning session of the class because really, what’s the point. I even contemplated not going at all, but figured I should, just for “closure”. I thought hardly anyone would be there, but it turns out that almost everyone (except the other Americans) were there. The teacher was actually teaching lessons too. I thought that kind of sucked. We were learning something pretty important too, which I’m kind of mad that it was saved for the last day when everyone is distracted and not really wanted to pay attention.

For lunch we went with Josef to this place around the corner. I had a pasta dish that was pretty good. It was nice to visit with him again.

After that, me and the boys spent the afternoon at home. The weather was pretty crappy (I got soaking wet on the way home). Towards the evening, Rowan was feeling a little warm. He probably caught whatever Frederik had. Poor baby! I also confirmed everything with my German teacher and she gave me some homework - read an article in the newspaper or magazine (w/o a translator) and be able to answer some questions about it. Ack! I think I will pick up one of those celebrity gossip magazines so that at least it will be fun. Oooh, Britney almost dropped her baby or Brangelina’s baby is coming soon!

We were about to start making dinner (Michael had to run out 3 times to get stuff that I forgot!). When Michael got back from one of his store trips, he suddenly remembered that we were having Antje over for our sprach duo. We had 10 minutes to clean up. Luckily, our living room is pretty easy to clean up, just pick up all the toys and sweep.

We had an OK sprach duo sesson. For some reason, it was really hard for both of us to speak in German this evening, it must be that we were too tired. She was fun as usual, but I think it was heavily English tonight. She loaned us a “Tim and Strummpi” comic book and we loaned her a couple of movies and a Calvin and Hobbes book.

Made Chicken Katsu for dinner. Mmmm…. We saw the movie “Cellular” and it was actually really good. A lot better than we expected.