Are You Ready for Some Fußball?

Was today yet another Snow Day? Well, let's see. History shows us that it's winter and we're in Wisconsin and the day of the week ends in a "y," so yes. It was another snow day. I feel like we're in that Groundhog movie. Every evening it's like: Winter Storm Warning. No School Tomorrow. Yikes.

So let's check in on the other side of the globe – where there is no snow. And they're wearing shorts.

Well, indoors anyway. Carter told us that yesterday a dozen of the students went to an indoor Fußball (aka soccer) arena. He said it was the North and South Americans against everyone else. That made it 6 on 6. And your winners... The Americans! 15-12. That's a stinkin' lot of goals! He said he was too tired to get a picture of the place, but thankfully someone did and shared it on the program page on Facebook.

They said: "A fair fight was provided by students on Wednesday afternoon at SoccArena Heidelberg. Of course, the fun was in the foreground!" That's the translation anyway. Carter is second in from the right side.

In this one, he is wearing the green pinnie and just left of the center of the photo. I know, it takes a mom (and good zoom) to figure it out!

Glad he's having fun. For today's excitement, though, the city of Heidelberg is under a tap water warning. Apparently some unidentified chemical got into of the city's water, so the only thing to drink is beer. Well, bottled water, too. Carter said he got to Aldi and managed to get some bottled water before they were sold out. And since they were going to a German celebration of some kind this evening, I am sure he played it safe and drank bottled something there, too. Ha.

Not that I didn't believe him, but I did check other news sources to confirm the story. And yep. Something weird turning the water blue. I don't know if it's comforting or not to know that the U.S. isn't the only place weird things happen. Just grateful he is safe.

He's officially been in school there a month now. Wow. It really seems like 6 months at least. Seriously. But that's just me. I can tell already how life-changing this is for him. Maybe even for me. I have to grow up and let go sometime.

But it's a heckuva lot more exciting living vicariously through him this winter than here. He just has to worry about drinking the water. We have to worry about how it's going to freeze on our windshields and roads.

Be safe out there!