It has been a good fall for us so far. Life seems very busy -- the days and weeks fly by. The kids are busy with homework and invovled with various other activities.
Mallory
Every fall, the kids here in Germany collect chestnuts. They fall from the trees (or the kids knock them down from the trees) in September or October, and the kids take them out of their shells. I am told that sometimes in school they paint them or make them into animals. One weekend we went on a bike ride, and Grant and Luke collected quite a few... One weekend per year, you can also take the chestnuts you gather to the Haribo factory her in Bonn, and they'll "buy" them from you -- exchange a certain number of kilos of chestnuts for a kilo of Haribo candy. The boys wanted to take them in to get some candy, but we were out of town.
Grant played in a few soccer games with his school team, but missed a few because he was sick.
Nash with the other boys in his age group at the cross country meet in Berlin.
And with the cross country team...