The third week of the year was not so bad. We visited a potential bilingual preschool for the kids (we had to skip ice skating). There are two full time teachers, one that speaks only English and one that speaks only German. While the start up age is 3, they have made exceptions and accepted younger kids whose siblings are older and also attending school. The plan is to start both JP and Syd on this bilingual school in August so that they can learn German and perhaps translate for us in the future (although I must say that Jim is really learning at a good pace considering that he learns by listening tapes on the train). Over the weekend, we visited Stuttgart, Germany. We did our usual tour around the city, visited the Landesmuseum where King Friedrich helped Jim push the kids around the square (cool ha?), the Karlsplatz, the Markethalle, the Tagblatt-Turm (first high-rise building in Germany constructed using exposed concrete 1927/28), the Town hall, and the Schulstrasse (one of the first pedestrianised zones in Germany) among other sites.
