Had to get this down before I forget. We went to Danny's Pizza this afternoon for lunch and while there, sat in the back partitioned area where they have pinball and video games. There were three young girls sitting back there about 6, 4, and 2 respectively. They were all chatterboxes, but I have to admit I didn't understand much of anything they were saying. They looked like most other children, but something was different I couldn't quite figure out, living in this Minnesota equivalent of Siberia. In the midst of one of the eldest girl's sentences, though, I picked out the words, "Ich bin," which finally clued me in to the fact they were German. A guy about Dad's age came back to check on them and mentioned to me they were staying in TRF with his family and he "can't understand a word they're saying" because they speak nothing but German. A few minutes later, their German father returns and summons them with a whole string of German language followed by "bitte" and the middle girl told the others, "SCHNELL!" I thought for a moment of Hogan's Heroes and just after their father was out of earshot, Daniel looks at Aaron and me and exclaims, "What the heck was THAT?!!" I'm guessing that was the first time he was exposed to a foreign language. Living in this remote area, it's kind of refreshing to see different ethnicities and hear different languages from time to time. I think we or at least I had become so accustomed to the melting pot they call Seattle that I had come to take diversity for granted. Now I'm learning all over again.
The other funny remark out of Daniel happened this past week when Daniel was playing in the neighbor boys' fort on the corner. He comes running home for a roll of my clear duct tape to "fix" the fort, calling it an "emergency." Once back at the fort, he tells the other boys, "We need a BIG dog now to kill people if they attack our fort." One of the boys responds, "But dogs are expensive. They're like $100!" Daniel then says, "Will they take a check??"
In other events to round out this weekend, it's been a long day of rain thus far and Daniel has successfully muddied up both his new jeans and his khakhi cargo pants I bought Friday night, so this guy's going to be busy doing laundry tonight, it appears. We also picked up a ball return thing that hangs on the rim of the basketball hoop so we can practice shooting this week. K-Mart finally stocked their basketball hoops today so we were able to get one of those to replace the worn one out there now. We also got a glow-in-the-dark basketball so we can shoot hoops at night. Now if this darn rain would stop... :o(
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