New New Wheels

So I enjoyed my new old bike for a day then I took it to a bike shop to have them add a basket. The man at the bike store told me he wouldn't add the basket because he didn't feel the frame was strong enough for a child seat so adding a basket to carry more weight was not a good idea. I got worried about having some major accident with Max on the back so I decided to just buy a new bike. So now we have 5 bikes in the house. Stephan's, Max's two bikes, my old bike and my awesome new bike. We are going to try to sell the old bike back to the guy we bought it from to get rid of at least one of them. The new bike is fantastic and is much more stable than the old one. I have loaded the saddle bags down with stuff, had Max on the back and stuff in the basket with no problem.

Max and I went to another circus this week with our play group friends (Yuki, Ky and Anyuu) and our German/English friends (Melanie and Ellie). It was a Russian circus with no animals just acrobatics and clowns. Best of all for Max they had motorcycles that rode around in a big metal ball. He was so excited! The kids played on a near by playground afterward so it was a great day for them. Max is really loving having Ky to play with. I think he was in need of a guy friend. They hold hands and run down the street. Max even wanted to go home with them after the circus. Sadly the will be moving to Munich in the summer.

Everything shuts down here in Germany for Easter weekend. Friday and Monday are a national holiday so Stephan was home on Friday. We packed a picnic and rode down the Rhein, stopping to picnic by the river. All in all we rode about 12 miles! The weather has been fantastic. Sunny and warm. Friday it was about 77 degrees. Our friends Frank and Tina drove up to Mainz on Friday afternoon for a few hours. We walked around town and then stopped for ice cream at an outdoor cafe. It seemed as if most of Mainz was doing the same with the great weather.

Saturday the stores were open so we ran out to do grocery shopping and picked up another fridge that sits under our counter so we now have much more space! - maybe about half of our fridge in Atlanta. It is Sunday morning and I am waiting for Max and Stephan to wake up. We made an Easter basket for Max but when I told him the Easter bunny would leave it for hi during the night he said he didn't the the bunny coming into our apartment and that the basket should be left downstairs by the front door. I got up a little early to take it down and am keeping my fingers crossed that it doesn't disappear before he wakes up and goes down to get it. We are going over the Melanie's house this afternoon for cake and an Easter egg hunt for Max and Ellie. Max really wanted to do the hunt at his Mama's house in Alabama but I think over the last few weeks he has decided that this option should be ok. We dyed eggs yesterday morning in preparation for the hunt. Well Max is up so I need to go. More about our Easter later....