When You Don't Have Your Parents Running your Life...

So we spent the day today holding hands and walking through the city...reconnecting after what has been months and in some ways even the past four years....of a time in our life where we had been very busy and consumed with life, our jobs, responsibilities and obligations.  The last four months or so in particular have been full of lots of financial and business decisions, practical decisions about our house, the move, our jobs, details about getting over to Germany etc.

And so today, we took the day just for ourselves....apart from the big to do list over here that includes visa, bank account, kitchen, closets, lights, customs, language and culture barriers etc.  We walked actually all day on and off and the total time amounted to about 10 hours out and about meandering the streets.  We had a quaint yet beautiful picnic lunch in one of the pretty parks, with lots of other Germans doing the same - they were enjoying the summer weather, playing tennis, riding bikes etc.  Tito and I just ate our baguettes and fresh cheese while laying down in the grass and watching the clouds go by above us.  We could have stayed for hours more but the rain clouds came in and so we had to high tail it out of there.

Later in the evening after we realized we had had no dinner we decided to find something.  We found a cute cafe with several vegan and vegetarian choices which is not easy to find in Germany.  We were going to eat there but decided to keep walking and stopped when we found the perfect place and then we ordered this.....and only this!  One for me and one for Tito!  And we felt like kids who were sneaking behind their parent's back....and we enjoyed it thoroughly!  We figured all the walking before and after somehow justified it.  (If it doesn't, please don't tell us because sometimes you need to just have fun, be spontaneous and not be so serious and calculated in all your moves!)