China

has made us very
recently. (I don't know whose baby this is by the way, sorry if it's yours). If you have a read of Wendy's posts you'll see why. She is now in London having been told residents can only get Chinese visas. The rest of us are in Fuerth still in Germany. I've been trying to confirm our travel and that we can travel to China using the visa waiver for 48 hours. No one tells us the same story so we may have to stay in Germany! Well some parts of Lufthansa don't seem to know about the 48 hours visa waiver so they may not let us on the plane to leave. Hmm Dilemma. So we are now trying to confirm that we will be able to leave.

It also turns out that due to some changes and help that Lufthansa was giving us here we have lost our flights to Auckland on the 22nd. Somehow there was a double booking made and when our travel agent in NZ went to rebook us on they deleted all flights. Hmm.

China's embassies have been generally very unhelpful and Wendy got shouted at yesterday by a Customer service rep in London yesterday. It seems in the end that she didn't need to go to London afterall as we could have got the visa waiver all along. But how to make a big corporation like Lufthansa follow the Chinese rules? The problem is that if they let us on and we are not allowed to enter China they are liable to bring us back here! Hmm.

Henry and Bella are missing their Mum, mostly at night as she always tuckles them in. And in the morning when they wake up to an absence of W power. To top it all off we are all feeling sick. Bella and I had a big sleep yesterday after going out for Weisswurst at Ushi's (Andreas' Mum).
So we are looking a bit...Anyway, today is a new day. Wendy can go visit the Tate Modern rather than mope. Bella, Henry and I are going to Munich for a wee trip. We have borrowed a Tomtom from a friend.
So we can't get lost anymore. We played with it and changed the voice to Ken from Aussie which made Henry laugh and laugh. There is also German of course and lots of other languages. In English for the journey home we might use Lori, the Southern USA woman. Very funny. There are some cool museums to visit in Munich for kids and I'm feeling we need to go see something. Even though we are tired and snotty we have come around the world. We can't just sit here.

We'll update you with more adventures. Must write something about the last 10 days too which have been really fun.