gigantic skyscraper and little devils

this week has been very stressful. marcello from germany stays her since sunday (in queens) we first met on monday morning after i brought toby and simone to school. we met on times square and first walked to the central park. but we did not walk in there very deep because it looked so ugly on this part. after that we walked down 5th avenue and broadway.

then i returned to brooklyn for bringing simone to gymnastics. the school is called "nyc-elite". all the little girls in their small leotards looked so nice and it was so cute to watch them doing their practises. then i met marcello again and we walked through chinatown. if you walk on two streets you feel like beeing in italy - that is so funny! thereafter we had pizza in soho (south of houston). i had a salad-pizza. yeah believe me or not, it was like cold pizza with salad on it.. sounds strange but it was really good :) after that i brought simone home from her gymnastic classes (although she knows the way better than me)

on tuesday naomi stayed at home with me all the day and ilene brought toby and simone to school. but unfortunately simone forgot her backpack and i had to walk to school as well :-/
in the evening i met marcello again and showed him brooklyn. seeing the manhattan skyline from the brooklyn-heights promenade at night was so great! after that we walked over the brooklyn bridge. is was such a nice view! i like beeing outside and watching the lights at night. you will not believe how many planes we saw in the sky - there is a lot of traffic still at night...

wednesday was very great because i had a lot of freetime :) all i had to do was getting the children ready for school and do the drop off. but unfortunately there were still some problems. in the morning simone needed a lot of attention besause of her "hurting arm". she felt down the day before and had a very small wound. but it really was not that bad! so she did not take a shower and needed much help to get dressed because she "could not move her arm" children can be devilish if they want to :P on monday toby and simone had a big argument and toby said stuff like "i hate you" and "i wish you were never born" all the time. then i asked him to apologize but he only responded "sorry, but i don't mean it!" and simone cried a lot. that was a very hard situation... especially in the last days toby wanted to go home as fast as possible. and he screamed all the time that we should hurry up and stuff like that. on tuesday he did not want to trust me. he can be very annoying some days. my new strategy is to bring simone with her scooter to school. that is fast enough for toby and we would not be late :)
so on wednesday i met marcello again and we went to the empire state building. the view from the top was so great! but actually i thought nyc is much bigger...

after that we went to the cinema and watched the movie "wicker man". it was a very weird movie and had no sense at all! it is about a village full of women who invite men to take part in their strange rituals. and of couse the men do not know about that... never ever watch that bad movie and try to understand it!! and never eat popcorn in the cinema :D it was salty and with much butter on it. and there was an extra butter dispenser. first i wondered why she offered me napkins for popcorn - but i understood when i tried it...