Geschaft!

Finished, done, made it, etc...! That is what 'geschaft' means, and our friend Eva (one of Zachy's godmothers) has finished her teaching degree! The three older kids and I went with another friend to her 'graduation' in a city about an hour and a half away. It was a short ceremony, a very short speech, a couple of songs and then they all got their diplomas. It was cool to be able to be there and celebrate with her. Congratulations Auntie Eva!!!

After the ceremony we went to a wildpark (wild in German is the same as in English except that it can also mean wild animals), so it was a wild animal park, but get this....it's free! I am often so amazed at the things here that are either free or very cheap. We payed 2 euros for parking and then we bought two boxes of food for the animals for one euro apiece. So for four euros we spent about an hour, it was already getting late when we got there, looking at and feeding all sorts of animals! And there were 3 or 4 really cool playgrounds mixed in the park as well.

Afterwards we went to dinner in cute little restaurant where we could sit outside in the 'hof' (courtyard) which was surrounded by a wall of sandstone covered in ivy and attached to the original city wall of the town built in 1550-something. (I don't know if the wall around the restaurant hof was that old, but inside the restaurant there was a section of the old wall still standing). It was really quaint, with good food.

After dinner we headed back to Freiburg. It was a really fun afternoon and we enjoyed getting to spend time with Eva and Jacque. (Thanks guys for hanging out with us!) Jacque and I took a bit of a 'scenic' route home (sometimes hard to tell where the sign's pointin' ;-) ), but it only took us about an extra 10-15 minutes, and when you have good company what's a little extra driving time, right?