So I was all prepared to actually get a little writing done yesterday (have a couple of edits I got this week). I was just about to sit down and get to work when my phone rang.

A friend of mine has her in-laws visiting. From Germany. Who don’t speak English.

So she invited me to go on a drive out to the south fork of Long Island with them. Because they don’t speak English. And while she says she doesn’t speak German I was pretty impressed.

Now I took 5 years of german in high school. But high school was a really long time ago and I don’t remember much. Especially much that you’d actually want to say to your friend’s in-laws.

But we struggled through and had a good time. It was a lovely day, not to hot, not too cold. We walked on the beach and at 4 o’clock they must have coffee so we went to Starbucks.

Aside from the language barrier (I could understand a lot of what they said, just couldn’t respond to it) it was a really nice day.

Of course that means twice the amount of work for today (and tonight we’re going to see my brother-in-law who’s in town on business).

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