We have the run of the house!

A concert in a barn

Sunset and sunrise

Glyptotheque

Homegrown cucumbers

Lucy has had a fun ten days at her orientation camp in Pennsylvania, which included a trip to New York city, a fun park and a baseball game, and has now arrived with her host family in Las Vegas. We receive brief messages from her every few days, and it sounds like everything is going really well. Life goes on in Krailling, except that we don't need to fight for the bathroom now!
On Friday evening, Mike took Belka up a mountain to sleep on the summit and see the sun rise. By the time they got back on Saturday, Steph was off stand-up paddling with friends on Ammersee lake.
In the evening we cycled into Munich to join some friends for a barbecue dinner. Today we shared dog duties as usual, with Mike doing pre-breakfast walkies and Steph taking Belka to their regular dog group. In the afternoon we went back into Munich to visit the Glyptothek, a museum full of marble busts and sarcophogi which we last visited just before Lucy was born.
Our balcony again hosts our vegetable-patch-on-legs and currently contains three runner bean plants that are curling their way slowly up the poles; there is also a yellow capsicum plant and a mini-cucumber plant which is producing a wonderful crop. All organic, of course.
We haven't yet mentioned our cultural activities of this year, but it's been a good one so far. As a family we have been to see modern dance (Nutcracker Reloaded) and a musical (West Side Story). Mike and I have been reliving our youth, he with punk (Stiff Little Fingers and UK Subs) and I with rock (Guns 'n' Roses) concerts in Munich, and recently we went to a great percussion concert in Munich's main classical concert hall. A couple of Fridays ago we went to see a band that is very popular in Germany, Die Prinzen, who normally play major venues. This time, however, they appeared in a large barn not far from here as part of the village's summer festival, so we went along and had a great time.