Before school got out, I thought Anna and I could bike to town for market day. We have bikes here, but apparently not used since WW2: every tire was flat and this pump has an interesting valve, which only fits 1 tire. Most of the flat tires have creased rubber and the valve of the other pump I found disintegrated in my hand. So off we went to bike w flat tires to the gas station. Anna particularly enjoyed biking up,a hill with flat tires. However, partly up the hill we found a relatively new pump in the bike bag and happily bikes off to market. The farmers market is absolutely gorgeous with colorful organic fruits and veggies and super fresh italian pastas, which I way over-indulged, but made the nice Italian man's day.
After market, Anna and I met Hansi at school and planned to take the bus home with him, while Peter, who happened to get off of work early, took Tobi skiing. Well, thinking buses come frequently, I stayed and chatted with Tobi's teacher. By the time we followed the cute little footprints to the bus stop, we missed the bus. The next bus left from another stop, so we walked across Murnau to catch it. Unfortunately we misread the bus schedule, which (as you can see from the photo) I am fairly confident I wasnt the first person to do so. Hansi, however, was not the least bit amused as he had not eaten lunch yet (he gets out at 1 pm so they eat lunch at home) was anxious to get home. As it turned out the next bus, according to the school day schedule, actually left from another stop at the otherside of Murnau, so we thought it would be faster to walk. Hansi eventually made the best of our little adventure and he took pictures of the incredible scenery, the local farm and cows. We agreed that we are lucky to be living in this beautiful corner of the world and learning about life here.
We actually live in a neighborhood of Murnau, called Hechendorf, . Although Murnau is our mailing address where so many of you so kindly sent us your holiday cards that we look at daily on our wall. Murnau is not large enough to qualify for a city, so it is a "markt" and Hechendorf, is an ord. Our little "Ort" sounds like it comes right out of the dorms from Harry Potter or smurfville. Anyway, I took a picture of the signs informing people that they are leaving Murnau and entering Hechendorf, which we were happy to see ourselves.
The bus saga continued for Annika and Gia as they also wanted to try the bus. When they were not home 90 minutes after school ended, I assumed they too had a bus glitch, but I freaked. I was so worried that the girls had no phone, did not really know Murnau and only had 1 hour of daylight left. With no car around, I hopped on the bike and went looking for them. Fortunately, they had just entered Hechendorf walking. They too missed the bus, but because they thought it was heading the wrong direction. I was quite proud of the girls' resourcefulness, as they bought a map, water and gummy bears as their survival kit. I found them happily walking and proud they had beat their bus. They explained their survival kit and Gia said, "at least we will be fat hobos and keep warm" smiling as she told her story.
Today the kids profited from yesterday's lesson and everybody successfully took the bus. It is amazing how complex learning the basics can be. We are living and learning daily.
A note about this blogsite: I try to coordinate pics and story, but it shows pictures in a random order from how I download them. Sorry for any confusion.
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