LouAnn: Ahhhh… we woke early to church bells chiming!! So pretty. I wish we could hear that back home.   The kids and I took our time getting ready and eating breakfast together downstairs.   Sweet Inge knows what we like now, and automatically brings us “our usual.”   Today we were supposed to fly to Barcelona.   Inge was able to let us stay in our suite through next Friday- another 6 nights! What a blessing to not have to move B&B’s now. She also was able to accommodate Paul’s family, coming tomorrow.   It will be so nice and so much easier to be staying at the same place!

We got to the hospital around 11:00 and Paul was sitting up eating lunch. He had also enjoyed hearing the church bells that morning as he ate his breakfast. Günther was gone with his wife for the day, so we were able to visit longer and not have to be so quiet. We played cards around his bed again, and watched the movie “Fletch” on his ipad together.   We laughed and laughed. It was fun to hang out with him for the afternoon.

By this point, after a week here, we were desperately needing to do laundry again.   We tore ourselves away from Paul so he could rest, and headed home to gather the mounds.   We went back to our favorite laundromat, Green Clean!!! It is NOT CHEAP. 10 euros per wash load. 6 euros to dry.   However, the capacity is HUGE! Worth every penny! It took a while to find a parking place. Parking is not easy in this town. We parked several blocks away, illegally I think, (never could translate the sign) and trekked down the street with all of our clothes, in the rain, I might add. While the clothes washed, the kids played once again in the park next door.   They spent far too long on the merry-go-throw-up, and when we headed back to switch the clothes, I turned to make sure they were following me.   I found them all evenly spaced out along the grass, bent over, hands on their knees, sick as dogs.   That was the last we saw of THAT park!

As our clothes dried, we played a mean game of Liverpool Rummy. I love playing cards with the kids. They are all competitive and laugh a lot.   After 2 ½ hours, we finally finished folding all the clothes, took them back through the rain to the car, which was mercifully still there.   It was now 9:00pm. The kids were again starving. Keep in mind, EVERYTHING closes up around 7pm every night, and even fewer things are open on a Sunday night. Jack searched for places to eat on my phone and found Tokyo Bar a block down from the laundromat.   We walked there and had the BEST dinner!   The food was great! Not Austrian for a change.   The kids were tired and punchy, and everything was making them laugh.   They all made puppets out of their chopsticks and had fun doing “Punch and Judy” routines to each other.   I have not seen them get that hysterical very often. I’m sure the few others in the restaurant wondered what we had been drinking!

 After dinner it was too late to visit Paul again, so we headed home, full, clean and happy.

Sitting up for lunch!  I know these seem repetitive, but to get to sit up seemed like a privilege at this point.

Watching movie with the kids

And after a shower, a stroll through the halls!

Literally!

It makes ME sick just to WATCH this!

And…..the result.  All in the name of FUN!

Liverpool at Green Clean.

I think this is Ellis’s “they’re MULTIPLYING!” face.

Getting late at this point.  Tired and HUNGRY.

Yea Tokyo Bar!

Sanity was slipping away at this point….

They were pretty punchy!