Lazy Sunday

Slept lateish, got up around 8. Logan walked in town to the bakery. We dawdled over breakfast (it’s still cold here, so we sat inside instead of on the balcony). Around noon we got in the car to drive to the town of Gauting, west and south of us. Gauting is near the town of Starnburg, which is where the Munich International School is. Many English-speaking people who come here with family put their kids into this school. And this is the time of year that people move out of Munich, back to the States as the school year is over. Hence, they have stuff for sale. I had heard that Donna and Tom had lots of appliances and shelving for sale, called & they said the sale started at 1:00 on Sunday.

I was hoping to score a stand mixer. (We saw mixers in the department store yesterday, Kitchen Aids started at 469 Euros and went up!!!) But when we got to there, Donna said the mixer was sold. We browsed around and picked up a few things, but the kitchen stuff and the closets (think Ikea) were sold. I overheard Donna telling someone else that “there is a family that was here for 10 years, then back to the states for 2 and they’re coming back because they didn’t like it back in the states. He bought just about everything.” I broke in – “Are you talking about Bill?” She looked startled and said yes. Bill is Logan’s other new co-worker! Unbelievable. Donna said, “He’s the one who got the Kitchen Aid! And he said that Nina (his wife) didn’t want it, but that he’d take it anyhow and learn how to use it!” Well, I am hoping that when Nina gets over here in August, she will think their kitchen is too cluttered and I will end up with the mixer after all.

Bill & Nina and family had been over here, Bill working for ESEA until two years ago. They moved to New Hampshire, and Bill (whom I met on Thursday last week) said it is a beautiful small town, has a small college, great shops, lots of ways to get outdoors and hike and bike and ski. But the family wanted to come back to Germany, their kids were raised here. So Bill is now working again for ESEA, and he is now in Munich for 3 weeks getting things ready for the family to come over in August.

Logan heads off to the UK tomorrow, for 2 weeks.