Mensch, aergere dich nicht!

Playing Ludo this morning, or Mensch, Aergere Dich Nicht as it is known here. At least that's one thing which isn't Denglisch. I did (get annoyed) though, because I kept losing. Being beat by a 7yo (Mica) and a 10 yo (Luca) is no fun.
That's Luca in the picture. Mica was sulking.
We had been going to go for a walk in the Kellerwald National Park today, but it was way too hot - 38C was forecast, and it certainly felt like the inside of an oven when you went outside. Then we were going to go to a nearby cave complex, but that meant dressing for 9C and then going out into the oven. We gave up and stayed at home, with a brief foray to the Eisdiele in Endbach. I got to see the new "wellness" swimming pool complex - what we would call a spa. It looks very swanky, with saunas and ice water showers and all sorts of thermal water thingies, and a bit less old lady than it used to be.
Vocab of the day: swanky = nobel or edel.

I was quite happy to slow down, especially as I didn't get home to 1am last night. The open air concert last night, by the Junge Marburger Philharmonie, was really good, and was complete with fireworks at the end of Tschaikovsky's something symphony in some key or another. We ate Wuerstchen and drank beer and afterwards had a wander round the shows and stalls which were at the castle. We all decided we were getting too old for all that open air drinking and stuff, though - we found ourselves looking at the inebriated students and thinking, how old are you?

I am now sitting out on the patio with a glass of wine. Germany is playing Urugay (or is it Paraguy?) for 3rd place, and again, I can tell the score by the audio track provided by the village in general. Mica has stayed at home to watch the match, but Helmut has taken Luca down to watch it in Jeegels Hoob.
(The village hall is called that because it's dialect for Jegel's Hof, or Jegel's "bit". The village bought up a redundant farm yard which needed to be preserved, because it was a listed building - the villages here have small farmyards, with Fachwerk buildings, on the main road. Unfortunately, the listed building fell to bits when they tried to restore it, and building regs meant it had to be rebuilt new and not restored as was. Seems strange, but that was the rules - they wanted to rebuild it as was. Anyway, a new build was easier. The other thing is that Jeegel was the "Hausname" of the family, a sort of local nickname for the family with that farm and not necessarily their real name.)

It's just about nice to sit out now. And Germany seem to have won 3rd place, going by the vuvuzela grapevine.