Verb conjugation of "abtrocknen" in German

In this email I would like to tell you what occured to me in Italy during the summer vacation last year. So, I went to Italy for four days. First I stayed in Firenze, than I decided to go to Rome.
Joanna started kindergarten 2 weeks ago. She got used to it very quickly and I must say that I am very pround of her. She is now 23 months old and we are going to celebrate her birthday in three weeks.
The American (his name was Jeffrey) meant that this is the hour where usually the price of goods went down as the sellers were under pressure and did not want to return with the product.