We were awoken to the beautiful sounds of a baby screaming at 5:30. Poor Rowan, he was running a fever and just wanted someone to comfort him. I went down and slept with them. Well, just barely. Elijah was so excited to have someone else in the room that he just wanted to play, play, play. Sometimes he would sit on Rowan’s head or leg or whatever and would start another cry-fest. I stayed down there until around 9am (we did manage to get a little sleep in between Elijah’s antics) and then Michael took over for a little while. Today was a holiday (some sort of religious Catholic thing) so Michael didn’t go to work. Because tey didn’t sleep very well from about 5:30, they were sleepy within an hour and a half. Then it was my turn again, and Michael went out for a hike. The boys slept very well during their nap, about 3.5 hours, which is highly unusual. I figured they should get all the rest they need. In the afternoon, they were pretty lethargic and I got worried. Of course they get sick during the holidays or on the weekends when no doctor’s office is open. Rowan’s temperature was 103.5 and I gave him some Tylenol and a lukewarm bath. After a couple of hours his fever actually went up, so we decided to take him to the emergency Kinderklinik. Right before we left the house, Rowan threw up his food. It was so gross and I had to clean it up. Michael quickly took Rowan to change his clothes so that he didn’t have to deal with the stink that nearly made me throw up. Next time he won’t be so lucky!

We went by car, which was really convienient because there was parking right in front (for FREEEEEE!). There was no one else waiting, so we got helped right away. The doctor was very nice, I liked him a lot. The boys checked out ok, they just had some kind of virus and he gave us a prescription for the fevers and pain. Then we had to find an emergency Apotheke, luckily they had a couple listed on the wall. We went to the Euro-Industrie Park, which was our first time in that area. It was like we were in the US. Lots of big stores with big parking lots! The Apotheke was next to a huge Toys-R-Us. We’ll have to come back sometime. It’s nice to see places with plentiful and free parking. The actual Apotheke wasn’t open, but you could go to this little window and they take your prescription and fill it. The great thing about Germany and their prescriptions is that everything is pre-boxed and ready so they just grab the box off the shelf. They don’t have to measure and check their computers and what not, so it’s really quick. And for kids it’s all free.

We’re glad that they are ok and that we found this nice kinderklinik (I like it a hell of a lot better than the Isar klinik, which was unfriendly). They aren’t open 24 hours (the next door regular hospital is), but they are open every day for a good chunk of the day (until 8pm). And also that we now know where a 24 hour pharmacy is. And where a big Toys-R-Us is.

I was so mad this evening that ITunes didn’t post the season finale of Lost at their usual time of about 7pm our time. I didn’t see it until about 11pm and Michael was already too tired to watch, so I had to watch it myself. It was pretty good. I was all riled up after watching it that I downloaded the 1st episode of the 5th season of 24. It was pretty good too. It’ll cost me almost $50 to watch all of it, so I’ll download an episode here and there. I’m sure at some point I’ll get addcited to that show and download 5 or more at a time. I still haven’t completely seen all of the 4th season, but it’s in my rental queue.

We watched the movie “Guess who’s coming to dinner?”. Really good, what a classic.