A Tuesday with Bei Bei

When Bea was much littler ... Not yet fully in school, but on the doorstep, I took a day a week to do something purposeful with her. We were living in China and there was much to see and I wanted to maximize my waning time with my last baby at home! We called them "Thursdays with Bei Bei". 

We took the city bus and meandered all over our city ... Climbing towers and visiting monistaries. 

Yesterday, with Millie off in the farest flung corner of Eastern Germany on a (mandatory) class camping trip, and with Eliza staying late at school for her Photography club, Bea and I found ourself with a spare hour in our day to spend together. We recounted our Thursday's with Bei Bei Adventures and thought we try it out in Deutschland.

We started with a drive ... I was wanting to explore a community just north of the school and she was eager to have my full attention and basically have the car to herself. We admired the countryside, and smiled at the free range chickens in a pasture.

We remarked on all the horses (there was even a horse walking down the sidewalk when I picked her up after school!) 

We then decided to stop to pick flowers along the road at a "you pick on the honor system" Bloomen plot. 

After paying 60 Euro cents for each glad  stem, she climbed in the passenger seat and promptly Instagrammed a bloom. (A sure sign my baby no longer a baby!)

We made time for a gelato. (No picture because with the narrow cobbled streets,  in the quaint German haunts, I plunge all my efforts into driving!)

We still had time for a quick trip to the park before gathering Eliza. 

Bei Bei sure know how to maximize an hour!!