Karen Mark & James Redshaw

Wow, it has been some summer, and now it is well and truly over. Last weekend was MuseumsUferFest here in Frankfurt, that is our favorite weekend of the year here in the city. Lots of music, lots to eat (and drink) and Karen usually manages to find enough to buy as well. The reports were that over the 3 days 3 million people attended so at times it was packed. My favorite music, as usual, was at the Jass Garden, James had fun at a robot workshop, in the museum next door so that worked well he built a robot and I got some nice music.
But now that the festival has passed that really indicates that summer is gone, the weather this week has also played its part as has James’ return to school. He has been back two weeks and enjoying being a 4th Grader, best of all he says is that he now gets a choice of what to eat at lunch.

James was delighted to win the trophy for the most unusual car at the cub scout Pinewood derby race. This may be something to do with the fact that his car was not a car it was a bus! And a big yellow bus at that. It started out with the idea that it should be a train, but once James started paining it was clear that it would end up looking more like a bus. Many of the Americans said it was a school bus, but James knows better it is a cub scout bus! Have a look for yourself:

It snowed on Sunday night, a great way for James to start back in school. He would much rather of been playing in the snow.
Since then it has been really cold, down to -11C in the city last night, not over -3C during the day and now it is -7 as I head off for the night. It is keeping everything crisp and white, and it looks like the next couple of days will be more of the same.