And then we did all the things

All in all a fun day, even though my energy remained low.

And my mother wasn‘t doing much better, at one point the two of us were so unfocused and confused that we drove my husband slightly nuts. ::shrug::

I did get another night of 8 1/2 hours of sleep. The weather was rather hot and humid all day but there was nothing to be done.

We started the day with another walk to the grocery store to get buns and return some bottles. Also we bought some chocolate, for my husband this time.

There was breakfast. We had taken care to be a little earlier because my mother expected someone to help her take a shower. Well, that person came much earlier than usual, so she had to abandon her coffee mid-meal.

Afterwards we went grocery shopping, this time for my mother. She wanted to go to the store where she usually shops and that one is a bit farther away. Everything took longer than expected, as always.

Back at my mother‘s apartment my husband and I cooked lunch. No conflict, no nothing. Turns out when you have a kitchen with ample counter space where the sink and the stove are not right next to each other cooking together becomes much easier.

There was lunch:

Lamb, chickpeas, veggies and rice. Very nice. And some ice cream for dessert.

Then we all took a break and husband and I went back to our apartment. We returned to my mother about 90 minutes later and set out to go to a small lake nearby.

By then it was really hot and my mother was starting to wilt a little. But we still went, had some coffee at a cafe near the lake sitting outside and I drank my first ever chocochino. Yes, that was hot chocolate and coffee together, very tasty. It reminded me of the days at uni when we used to draw one hot chocolate and one coffee into a big mug at the cafeteria. I don‘t usually do coffee but was intrigued, and I liked it.

Then my husband and I walked all around the small lake, and husband went in for a swim.

We met up with my mother again who had walked around a bit outside the cafe and went back to her place.

Then we ate dinner, got back to the apartment, talked quite a bit, I started writing this post and mentally prepared myself for packing and the way back and went to bed.

And today we‘ll be on trains all day again. And if things go well we‘ll be back home tonight.