just relaxing

This is the view from where I sit writing report card comments!

To be fair, we had a very long day yesterday in Frankfurt. We left the house at 9am and met Kendal (Judy Sweeney's niece) at the train station. We went on a walking tour of Frankfurt that was very cool - http://frankfurt-on-foot-cityguide.blogspot.com/

However, our guide was a bit annoying. He was originally from Texas but has lived here in Germany for 25 years. He made a couple of comments that sounded very anti-Semitic which, of course, totally pissed Murilo off. The guy fumbled around and re-explained what he meant to say, I patted Murilo on the back to calm him down, and we moved on. Afterwards, our guide was much more careful how he worded things pertaining to Jewish people. What can you expect from someone who introduces himself as Hando?!

Neither Kendal nor I had our cameras - dang it!

I did manage to find this photo online - it is a picture of the Jewish memorial outside the Jewish Museum. It commemorates the 11,134 deported and murdered Jewish inhabitants of Frankfurt am Main. It is next to the former main synagogue of Frankfurt which was destroyed in the Reichskristallnacht in 1938 (you can see the outline of the old synagogue on the ground on the right side - it is a bit darker and shinier than the gravel on the left side by the wall).

Right on this corner, I found 52 people with the same last name - whole families wiped out. It was very sobering. I look forward to returning and actually going through the museum as it wasn't part of our tour.

Back to our long day - we stopped at the mall on the way home to get new printer cartridges and grasshoppers for school. The day to day needs of life never stop. We ended up getting home around 7pm - utterly exhausted from the heat and walking and finally eating!