The exploring begins...

Day 1 post quarantine Dave headed back to the office and the kids and I set out on foot with the City Select Double Monster stroller.  Dave assured me it was mostly flat so we headed out to see what we could see!

Excited to get out of the house!

We thought it would be a good idea to walk towards the Pestalozzi Grundschule to see how long it would take. Not even 10 minutes, or pushing the Monster Stroller maybe a few minutes more.  That might be the last time I attempt to take that stroller on that particular route - oh the hills!!  I had to let Evie out so that I could push it - I sure got a good workout in that morning!

Being a stinker in front of the school.

Next we walked to the Altes Rathaus where Evie was just in awe of how OLD the doors were, and the rust and the clock tower!  Click on this Rathaus link to check out the city website with an option to read in English and see all that Weinheim has to offer.  It's a great city!

Admiring the OLD door at the Rathaus 

Pointing to the clock on the Rathaus

Before we headed out I asked everyone if they needed any snacks or had enough to eat, used the bathroom, etc... 10 minutes into our journey they both said how hungry they were.  I think they remembered that we were going to be on the lookout for a bakery anyway - William of course wanted ice cream since we passed about 3 different shops.  Inside Riegler, William was determined to get a entire Vegan Chocolate Cake, it is the only thing he wanted.  There weren't too many pastry like items that interested him so he decided on a butter pretzel and loved it!  Evie chose an Apfel Strudel and she ate mostly all of it!

1st bakery stop!

We went home for lunch and a little rest.  It was another beautiful day, we've been so lucky in the past few weeks to have such warmth and sunshine.  We do not remember the weather being this beautiful when we lived here before!  After a nice video chat with my cousin in Japan we ventured back out for a stroll in another direction where the kids discovered snails crawling up the stone walls.  Everything is cool and exciting for them :) 

Snail spottings!

Might have to look into this delivery service!

We finally made it to the bouncers behind our building.  They played on them for a good 10 minutes before the novelty wore off.  It was actually a little bizarre, playing down there surrounded by all of the houses feeling like we were being "watched" from every which direction!  

That's something I guess we just have to get used to here instead of our huge private yard that we were so used to previously. 

It was a good day.  The kids were pooped and I doubled my step goal for the day which was a huge accomplishment after being "inside" for 2 weeks!  Dave got home from work, Evie fell asleep around 4:00 and we ordered delivery again - because like we said - it's just so easy!!  I took my very first drive all alone to one of the Aldi's up the road.  It is connected to an Edeka store, another great grocery, but after spending so much time browsing in Aldi I didn't make it into Edeka.   I got home to my deliciously delivered Döner and had to try to get Evie out of bed to eat.  Needless to say by the time she got up, ate and bathed she didn't go back to sleep till nearly 11:00!  Oh well, fun first day of freedom in Germany!

Tschüss!!