Sunday, June 22, 2008
Saturday, June 21, 2008
Swimming and Fun
Well there was a little more that went on Thursday. From 7:30-8:30 PM we went to a swim practice. Anna Rust has a little sister named Laura and she is on a swim team. The practice realy wasn't that hard but we were DIEING and gasping for air. Well.... that's what we get for not having practice for 3 weeks. And we haven't had an actual SWIM practice for 4 months. But as you might have guessed, we are still alive. There wasn't a lot of people there, about 10 people, but therer was another soccor game. This soccor game was part of the European Champianships and this game determined if Germany went to the finalls or not. It was Portugal v Germany and we won 3-2. Kaelei and Kali went the city park to watch it outside with Anna and her friends. It was crazy because the city goes WILD for this game. You could not belive how crazy it was. Lisha stayed home with Quinn and Benny's family and whenever a goal was made by Germany the house went into an earthquake with noise and people jumping up and down with excitement. Becasue this was such a big game the swim practice was cut short. Usualy it goes till 9:00 PM but it was shortened to 8:30 for the game. Tori (Quinn's daughter) came with us to swim practice but didn't swim with us. Lisha asked Tori how long the pool was because it looked about 25 yards but she knew it had to be in meters or someting. Tori said 50 meters. There was NO WAY it was 50 meters! We've seen a 50 meter pool! So Lisha and Tori went back and forth a few times arguing about how long it was becasue she KNEW it couldn't be 50 meters. So she asked one of the other swimmiers (in German) how long it was. "25 meters." He was laughing while he said it because he knew English quite well and knew exactly what they were talking about. Lisha was all excited and was teasing Tori a little bit about how she was right. But Tori was fine with it becasue she made some jokes about it after.
Friday
Because we were up kinda up late Thursday night Quinn let us sleep in. We woke up at 12:30 in the middle of the day. We were a so supprised that we actualy slept in that long! Not just one of us slept in that long, ALL THREE of us did! It was quite funny. Today we all went different ways Kaelei went to Pauline's, Kali went with Anna to get her hair done for the ball that night, and Lisha went rock climing with Steffen. While Kaelei was at Pauline's house she had a ton of fun, they played the wii and then they watched a movie in german so she could start learning the language. Also one of Pauline's friends came over to hang out with her, her name was Carmon. She was happy to get to know new people. Later on at around 8:00 they started playing Ligretto Kaelei LOVED it! They played it until around 9:45. Then they took her home. (Kali will add to this post later about what she did). Lisha went rock climing with Steffen, Quinn's brother in-law. She had a lot of fun. She said that going up the wall was so much fun, untill she got to the top and didn't really know how to get down. Steffen told her just to fall backward and the rope will catch her but she was till scard. It took her about 3 minutes to get ready to fall but she did it and repelled down the wall. She also went through an obstical chors that made her very tierd but it had a zip line that was tones of fun. She went all the way down the zip line up side down. CRAZY! And she had her camera but forgot to ask Steffen to take any pictures of her climbing, so she doen't have any pictures of herself climbing! But oh well, we'll have to live.
Friday
Because we were up kinda up late Thursday night Quinn let us sleep in. We woke up at 12:30 in the middle of the day. We were a so supprised that we actualy slept in that long! Not just one of us slept in that long, ALL THREE of us did! It was quite funny. Today we all went different ways Kaelei went to Pauline's, Kali went with Anna to get her hair done for the ball that night, and Lisha went rock climing with Steffen. While Kaelei was at Pauline's house she had a ton of fun, they played the wii and then they watched a movie in german so she could start learning the language. Also one of Pauline's friends came over to hang out with her, her name was Carmon. She was happy to get to know new people. Later on at around 8:00 they started playing Ligretto Kaelei LOVED it! They played it until around 9:45. Then they took her home. (Kali will add to this post later about what she did). Lisha went rock climing with Steffen, Quinn's brother in-law. She had a lot of fun. She said that going up the wall was so much fun, untill she got to the top and didn't really know how to get down. Steffen told her just to fall backward and the rope will catch her but she was till scard. It took her about 3 minutes to get ready to fall but she did it and repelled down the wall. She also went through an obstical chors that made her very tierd but it had a zip line that was tones of fun. She went all the way down the zip line up side down. CRAZY! And she had her camera but forgot to ask Steffen to take any pictures of her climbing, so she doen't have any pictures of herself climbing! But oh well, we'll have to live.
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Beach and Home!
Wednesday June 18, 2008
Today we woke up at about 8:00 because we had to leave early to head toward Westerland, Sylt! We all just kinda threw our hair up because it was pointless to make ourselves all gorgemous if we were just going to go to the ocean to swim!Our train got dealayed about 40 minutes so we had to wait, but we all had books to read so it was all good! After we got on the train we sat there for about two and a half hours! When we got to Sylt we discovored it was really windy which sucked cuz that would mean it was going to feel colder in the water. When we were walking to the beach Kali and Lisha watched a seagul fly towards this guy and take the food he was eating right out of his mouth! They were laughing so hard!!! When we got down by the water we went to go see how cold it was and it was cold but not terribly. So Kali, Rolf and I decided we would go in the water and just get wet up to our legs, well that didn't happen we ended up being soked from head to toe! It was FREEZING! By the time we got out of the water we were purple but it was well worth being cold for how much fun we had! Lisha didn't really want to get in and freeze her butt off so she didn't which was toatally fine, she stayed on the beach and took some pictures of us being dorks! When we were done playing in the ocean we went and got döners they are so good!!! We ate and then decided that we would go home because we were exhausted so we went home! After the long train ride we made it home and we decided to watch Pride and Predjudice we had tons of fun giggling and laughing!
Thursday June 19, 2008
Today we woke up early again so we could get off on the train. We said bye to Rolf and Moni and then set off toward Quinn's. We first caught a train to hamburg when we were close we got off the train, we looked everywhere for our next platform and couldn't find it anywhere so we asked one of the people who worked there where we should go and he didn't speak any English but he was kind enough to print off another paper for us since we miss the train we were supposed to catch. We didn't understand where we were supposed to be so then Kali went and asked another guy and he spoke English we were so happy! He told us that we were supposed to stay on the last train for one more stop which was the main station so we got on a train to go there and then we got to the right train. It was such a relief when we got on the right train. We stopped at Ulzen, Celle and then we made it to Burgdorf. It is so nice to be back!
Today we woke up at about 8:00 because we had to leave early to head toward Westerland, Sylt! We all just kinda threw our hair up because it was pointless to make ourselves all gorgemous if we were just going to go to the ocean to swim!Our train got dealayed about 40 minutes so we had to wait, but we all had books to read so it was all good! After we got on the train we sat there for about two and a half hours! When we got to Sylt we discovored it was really windy which sucked cuz that would mean it was going to feel colder in the water. When we were walking to the beach Kali and Lisha watched a seagul fly towards this guy and take the food he was eating right out of his mouth! They were laughing so hard!!! When we got down by the water we went to go see how cold it was and it was cold but not terribly. So Kali, Rolf and I decided we would go in the water and just get wet up to our legs, well that didn't happen we ended up being soked from head to toe! It was FREEZING! By the time we got out of the water we were purple but it was well worth being cold for how much fun we had! Lisha didn't really want to get in and freeze her butt off so she didn't which was toatally fine, she stayed on the beach and took some pictures of us being dorks! When we were done playing in the ocean we went and got döners they are so good!!! We ate and then decided that we would go home because we were exhausted so we went home! After the long train ride we made it home and we decided to watch Pride and Predjudice we had tons of fun giggling and laughing!
Thursday June 19, 2008
Today we woke up early again so we could get off on the train. We said bye to Rolf and Moni and then set off toward Quinn's. We first caught a train to hamburg when we were close we got off the train, we looked everywhere for our next platform and couldn't find it anywhere so we asked one of the people who worked there where we should go and he didn't speak any English but he was kind enough to print off another paper for us since we miss the train we were supposed to catch. We didn't understand where we were supposed to be so then Kali went and asked another guy and he spoke English we were so happy! He told us that we were supposed to stay on the last train for one more stop which was the main station so we got on a train to go there and then we got to the right train. It was such a relief when we got on the right train. We stopped at Ulzen, Celle and then we made it to Burgdorf. It is so nice to be back!
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
So many trains....
Monday morning we got ready for the day and helped Quinn get her kids ready for school. All the sudden Tori called home from school and said that Niklas never made it to school and she didn't know where he was even though they rode their bikes to school together. About two minutes later Niklas came in the door crying. Nothing was wrong, he was just upset that Tori was going to fast for him to keep up and so he turned around and came back home. Quinn left the three of us with Tyler while she drove Jeffery to school. Boy... that was a crazy morning!
After things settled down a little bit around the house Kali and Kaelei rode their bikes to the store so they could pick up a few things for Quinn while she worked on some things on the computer. At 11:20 we headed down to the train station, which is just down the street (about the distance from our houses to the High School) so we could go to Rolf and Moni Maichel. Rolf and Moni are friends of my mom's(Lisa's). At 11:30 AM we got took a train from Burgdorf (where Quinn's family lives) to Celle, then another train from Celle to Uelyen, then from Uelyen to Hamburg, then finally Hamburg to Pinneberg. We met up with Rolf at the station in Pinneberg. We didn't know what he looked like but he easily spotted us out. We were the only people with travel bags. So how had can it be to pick out three American teenage girls with bags? Within 30 seconds of being there he walked up to us and asked us “is one of you Lisha?” So we must stand out in the crowd. After we met Rolf he drove us to his house he he showed us to our rooms. There are two rooms. Kaelei and Kali are sharing a room with one king size bed and I have my own room with a twin size bed in it. We also have a bathroom just for the three of us. It is quite nice. The rooms are decorated for their grandchildren for when they come to visit. After he showed us our rooms he asked us if we have ever read any Jack Weyland books. Lisha and Kali like his books so he went and got a few and we each picked one. We all dove into the books. We took a break from reading so we could go eat dinner. We had something similar to spaghetti but the sauce was more like a Chile with out beans but more ground beef. It wasn't the greatest but we liked it for the most part. After dinner we went back to reading again. We all staid up till about midnight reading. We kept reading till about 10:15 PM and then Lisha went upstairs to watch the last 20 minutes of the soccer game while Kali and Kaelei called home to tell Gusti and Mark happy birthday. This soccer game was Germany against Austria and Germany won 0-1! It was an exciting game. After the game was over we had a prayer together then went to bed... but we didn't really go to sleep... we read some more. Kali and Lisha had some smaller books so they finished that night. Lisha says that she never just sits down and reads like that.
Tuesday morning Rolf asked if we like the books and we asked if he had any more by Jack Weyland. He said no but his daughter did and that we would drop by her house later to pick some up. For breakfast we had cornflakes, oatmeal, yogurt and bread. Moni asked us what kind of cereal we liked to eat and when I said something like Fruit Rings (German Fruit Loops) she was nearly floored because “it has so much sugar in it!” After breakfast we put our shoes on and went out the door to go to Hamburg (which is near Pinneberg for those of you that don't know). To get there we drove to the train station, took the train to a bus stop, the the bus to a boat dock, took a boat to another dock, got onto another boat to head up river... then we made it to Hamburg. Hamburg has the 2nd or 3rd largest port in the world! Many people like to use it because they are very fast and that draws people in. We walked down the harbor to look and some different boats and things. It was hard to keep up when we walked because Moni and Rolf like to walk very quickly and the three of us like to take are time so we can relax and look at things. And with our relaxing, a few times we had to jog a little bit to catch up. The boats were cool and there were lots and lots of cute guys every where... well, not everywhere because there were some old guys too but there we a lot more than anywhere else we have been. Kali and Kaelei were trying to get pictures without being obvious that they were taking them. They didn't get any good pictures because they were trying so hard to hide the picture taking.
We noticed that the German's have a lot of the window flags and over half the cars have the German flag on their car. Rolf said that the flags will only but up for a short time. When ever the European Soccer tournament starts, suddenly everyone feels patriotic and the need to support their countries soccer team. But after we looked at some of the boats Rolf and Moni walked us to the mall and let us do some shopping. We couldn't find much that we liked and wasn't too expensive (CLOTHES HERE ARE SO EXPENSIVE!!) but we found some small things to get. After we finished shopping we started to head back to the house. On the way we stopped by a church called St. Peter's. It is the largest church in Hamburg. It is also one of the only churches that didn't get destroyed during the bombings of WWII. We were all getting tired of all the walking around so we finished going back to the house. On the way home we took a ten minute stop by Rolf and Monti's daughters house. We can't remember her name but she was very nice and spoke very good English She let us borrow two movies and some Jack Weyland books. We got home and read some more while Rolf and Moni went to a church meeting so we had dinner a little late, about 9:00 PM. While they went to their meeting we watch one of the movies that we borrowed from their daughter. It was called “The Cutting Edge”. We liked it a lot. Kaelei and Lisha kept pointing out all the really funny things in the movie. We would want to watch the funny parts again so we would rewind it and watch that part again and again. We had dinner at about 9, but we didn't mind it being late. It was nice because we ate dinner outside on their back patio It was still light out and the weather was great so it was a nice day to eat outside. For dinner we had some mashed potatoes (real ones, not instant) and some fried chicken with some sauce on it. It was very tasty. We are tired from all of the walking that we did today but we still might not get to sleep real early tonight because we are all so into the books we got.
We miss you all
We love you too
---Kaelei
---Kali
---Lisha
After things settled down a little bit around the house Kali and Kaelei rode their bikes to the store so they could pick up a few things for Quinn while she worked on some things on the computer. At 11:20 we headed down to the train station, which is just down the street (about the distance from our houses to the High School) so we could go to Rolf and Moni Maichel. Rolf and Moni are friends of my mom's(Lisa's). At 11:30 AM we got took a train from Burgdorf (where Quinn's family lives) to Celle, then another train from Celle to Uelyen, then from Uelyen to Hamburg, then finally Hamburg to Pinneberg. We met up with Rolf at the station in Pinneberg. We didn't know what he looked like but he easily spotted us out. We were the only people with travel bags. So how had can it be to pick out three American teenage girls with bags? Within 30 seconds of being there he walked up to us and asked us “is one of you Lisha?” So we must stand out in the crowd. After we met Rolf he drove us to his house he he showed us to our rooms. There are two rooms. Kaelei and Kali are sharing a room with one king size bed and I have my own room with a twin size bed in it. We also have a bathroom just for the three of us. It is quite nice. The rooms are decorated for their grandchildren for when they come to visit. After he showed us our rooms he asked us if we have ever read any Jack Weyland books. Lisha and Kali like his books so he went and got a few and we each picked one. We all dove into the books. We took a break from reading so we could go eat dinner. We had something similar to spaghetti but the sauce was more like a Chile with out beans but more ground beef. It wasn't the greatest but we liked it for the most part. After dinner we went back to reading again. We all staid up till about midnight reading. We kept reading till about 10:15 PM and then Lisha went upstairs to watch the last 20 minutes of the soccer game while Kali and Kaelei called home to tell Gusti and Mark happy birthday. This soccer game was Germany against Austria and Germany won 0-1! It was an exciting game. After the game was over we had a prayer together then went to bed... but we didn't really go to sleep... we read some more. Kali and Lisha had some smaller books so they finished that night. Lisha says that she never just sits down and reads like that.
Tuesday morning Rolf asked if we like the books and we asked if he had any more by Jack Weyland. He said no but his daughter did and that we would drop by her house later to pick some up. For breakfast we had cornflakes, oatmeal, yogurt and bread. Moni asked us what kind of cereal we liked to eat and when I said something like Fruit Rings (German Fruit Loops) she was nearly floored because “it has so much sugar in it!” After breakfast we put our shoes on and went out the door to go to Hamburg (which is near Pinneberg for those of you that don't know). To get there we drove to the train station, took the train to a bus stop, the the bus to a boat dock, took a boat to another dock, got onto another boat to head up river... then we made it to Hamburg. Hamburg has the 2nd or 3rd largest port in the world! Many people like to use it because they are very fast and that draws people in. We walked down the harbor to look and some different boats and things. It was hard to keep up when we walked because Moni and Rolf like to walk very quickly and the three of us like to take are time so we can relax and look at things. And with our relaxing, a few times we had to jog a little bit to catch up. The boats were cool and there were lots and lots of cute guys every where... well, not everywhere because there were some old guys too but there we a lot more than anywhere else we have been. Kali and Kaelei were trying to get pictures without being obvious that they were taking them. They didn't get any good pictures because they were trying so hard to hide the picture taking.
We noticed that the German's have a lot of the window flags and over half the cars have the German flag on their car. Rolf said that the flags will only but up for a short time. When ever the European Soccer tournament starts, suddenly everyone feels patriotic and the need to support their countries soccer team. But after we looked at some of the boats Rolf and Moni walked us to the mall and let us do some shopping. We couldn't find much that we liked and wasn't too expensive (CLOTHES HERE ARE SO EXPENSIVE!!) but we found some small things to get. After we finished shopping we started to head back to the house. On the way we stopped by a church called St. Peter's. It is the largest church in Hamburg. It is also one of the only churches that didn't get destroyed during the bombings of WWII. We were all getting tired of all the walking around so we finished going back to the house. On the way home we took a ten minute stop by Rolf and Monti's daughters house. We can't remember her name but she was very nice and spoke very good English She let us borrow two movies and some Jack Weyland books. We got home and read some more while Rolf and Moni went to a church meeting so we had dinner a little late, about 9:00 PM. While they went to their meeting we watch one of the movies that we borrowed from their daughter. It was called “The Cutting Edge”. We liked it a lot. Kaelei and Lisha kept pointing out all the really funny things in the movie. We would want to watch the funny parts again so we would rewind it and watch that part again and again. We had dinner at about 9, but we didn't mind it being late. It was nice because we ate dinner outside on their back patio It was still light out and the weather was great so it was a nice day to eat outside. For dinner we had some mashed potatoes (real ones, not instant) and some fried chicken with some sauce on it. It was very tasty. We are tired from all of the walking that we did today but we still might not get to sleep real early tonight because we are all so into the books we got.
We miss you all
We love you too
---Kaelei
---Kali
---Lisha
Monday, June 16, 2008
Chicks on the train to Hamburg
I realized that I could post a blog on here for the girls, cuz they probably won't get to write everday in Hamburg. They rode the train today for the first time and the first time I spoke with them during their travels today they thought it was all pretty easy. Meaning they made the first two transfers without any problems. Then I got the next text message saying to please call them. They had made it to Hamburg, but there was supposed to be a track 7a and they only saw 1-6. (Now that really is a problem.) However, they had already figured out how to read the arrival and departure board (we had had a quick crash course on it waiting for the train to come in this morning) and had found the underground headed for Pinneberg. So they arrived at a slightly different time than was arranged, but they arrived well in Hamburg and were met by Rolf, so all is well. Thought this would be awaited information for all mom's at home. Signed-Quinn
Sunday, June 15, 2008
We're back from Coni's!
the LST band thingy
Hey everyone! It really sucked not having computer access while we were away! Here's what we did:
Monday: We packed our stuff, went to the store, met Florian at Ikea (by the way, he was really REALLY cute!), and drove down to Germersheim with him. Once we got to Germersheim (where Coni lives) we ate dinner (spaghetti) and went swimming. It was an outdoor pool and it was only us girls. Unfortunately there were NO cute guys! How sad is that? It's dumb. Coni has two little girls: Kaylee and Pilou (pee-loo). They are so cute! You should have seen the looks on their faces when we gave them the gifts we brought. It was hilarious. They wanted to put their dresses on right away! It was cute.
Tuesday: We woke up really late (10:30 or 11) and got ready quickly. After we got ready we went to Heidelberg Castle. It was way cool! We took lots of funny pictures but we can't show you yet because the card reader isn't working. Their idea of art is disturbing. Naked people everywhere! Nasty Europeans. The swim team is better than they are!!! After the castle we went to this way cool place and painted pictures. There isn't a good way to describe them but we have pictures so we will show you soon...I hope. That night for dinner we had a German/Turkish dish: Döner. It was REALLY good. Then we went shopping and before going to bed we watched Tarzan. It was fun!
Wednesday: We went to France. Strasbourg, France is a really cool place. There is a really cool-looking Cathedral that we walked through and we got cool little coins. The first thing we saw when we got to the Cathedral was some cute guys that were pointing at us and grinning (ooh la la!)...but we didn't get a picture because we were too chicken. The windows of the Cathedral are gorgeous. We took lots of pictures! After that...(drum roll please)...SHOPPING!!! We love French clothes! The biggest problem with them: they were EXPENSIVE! OMG they costed a TON! But then we found two awesome stores with good sales and we got shirts. They are sexy! After the stores all closed (kicking us out) we got ice cream and it was DELICIOUS! On the way back to the car we saw this guy doing portraits so Kali and Kaelei got their portraits done and Lisha got a charicature. They are so cool! For dinner that night we had cold cereal cuz we had spent so much that day...JUST KIDDING, MOMS! We just ran out of time...it was late. Then we stayed up joking with Coni till at least 1 a.m. She is so much fun!
Thursday: We went to Ludwigsburg Castle and the Fairytale Garden that day. Ludwigsburg was cool, but we didn't get very many good pics cuz flashes weren't allowed. When we finished with our tour there we went to the Fairytale Garden. This is where the real fun started! Who knew we could have so much fun in a kiddie park?! There were rides and scary looking character statue thingys that talked to us and scared Kali when they jumped out at her during a "relaxing" boat ride. Let me tell you right now: it was NOT relaxing...for Kali. Lisha and Kaelei had fun on that one teasing her and making her turn red...of course. What else does Kali do? Our favorite ride was one that we THINK was from Alice in Wonderland. It was REALLY fun. It made us feel like we were spinning upside down and all sorts of crazy stuff was "falling" on us. Kaylee made us go on it 5 TIMES! We felt really sick after that. When Pilou went, she had a TON of fun laughing and smiling at our scared-looking faces. The VERY best part came after everything was closed and we were playing in a little kid park. There was a round swing that Kali went and layed on, and soon Kaelei joined her, and after a couple minutes of them laughing, Lisha decided it looked fun and went to join them. We had so much fun laughing and taking pictures on that thing! We still aren't sure what was so funny, but we were laughing a lot. We had dinner at Coni's parent's house that night where we met Tobi (Coni's BROTHER not husband) and her sister and her parents. The dinner was yummy...it's a Turkish dish called maultaschen that's just noodles with meat inside of them. Kind of like ravioli. We got to bed late that night.
Kaylee:
Friday: We woke up really late on Friday because we had gone to bed so late the night before. It was like 11:40 or so. It was Coni's birthday so while we went to a waterslide park to swim, Coni went to her sister's house with her little girls. It was Friday the thirteenth so of course we had lots of bad luck lol. The normally 15-minute drive to Coni's sister's house from the pool took her 2 hours with all the traffic and detours. And Kali got REALLY beat up on the slides because she was too small to protect herself lol and she got slammed into the wall multiple times which Lisha and Kaelei found HILARIOUS! but Kali did not. IT HURT! Kaelei and Lisha got their own share of bumps and bruises and "hilarious falls" too. Kali and Kaelei met this weird hispanic kid who claims to have been from the U.S. but when we asked him what state he was from, he said Miami. So, we aren't really sure what the real story is. He was really funny. He said he was looking for girls who spoke english because it was driving him crazy when the German girls couldn't understand him. We got away from him as fast as we could lol. So, when we went home we had a little party for Coni. She had some friends come over and we gave Coni her presents. She was happy, but she asked for stuff for Kaylee and she was SO EXCITED! She modelled every single outfit we got her and gave us a hug wearing each one. It was way cute.
Saturday: We had to wake up early on Saturday (about 5 a.m. or so), even though we were up way late Friday night. The reason for waking up at 5 a.m. after going to sleep at 2-3 a.m. last night is we were going to the temple. We had to meet Quinn at the temple, and the temple is far away. We went with a crazy old lady who was in Coni's ward. She drove away while we were saying goodbye to Coni and the door was open and it was insane! We were trying to sleep on the way to the temple, but the crazy lady kept jabbering on about random stuff so it was hard to sleep. She wouldn't let Lisha sleep at all. Kaelei and Kali did though. We are so tired....The temple was fun. Baptisms took FOREVER though. The car ride to Hannover was awful. Tyler cried almost the whole way! But it was worth it. We got to Hannover and were going to the firework show at Herrenhausen Garten. It was so much fun. There was a crazy boy band and the lead singer was dancing all over the stage--it was hilarious! Then one of the guitar players was wearing a helmet made out of a disco ball! It was so cool! And we saw a cool fountain and took some funny pictures with Anna and Laura in front of it (while we danced around and acted like weirdos). It was a lot of fun. THEN we saw this other band called Lüneburger Schrott Trommler. They were all drummers and their drums were just metal or plastic barrels and stuff like that. We'll have to put up pictures...but ANYWAYS one of the drummers was SO CUTE!!! He was the cutest guy we had seen so far in Germany. So, being hyper and weird like we were, Lisha not included, we watched their final performance and went up to the hot guy and asked for a picture with him. So, as Kali was in heaven with his arm around her posing for a picture, EVERYONE in sight was watching because they thought it was so funny. Kali is pretty red in the pictures....We didn't get good ones because the cameras were being retarded. The only good one was really dark, so you can't see him very well. :( Lisha didn't think he was very cute but Kali, Kaelei, and Anna sure did! He was amazing! lol just kidding he was cute though. They have a website (in German of course). It's http://www.trommeltraum.de if you want to look at it. The pictures are at the top. The pictures aren't all that great but its the best we can do.
Today: Today we sang in the Hannover Ward. We sang Walk Tall, You're a Daughter of God. It was pretty scary, but apparently we did well because we got lots of compliments. It was weird. Young Womens was first, then Sunday School, THEN Sacrament Meeting. We skipped YW to practice our song for the first time ever. Class was way fun. There was a cute guy in our class and the teacher tried to translate the lesson into english for us, so that was cool. It was funny the way we got introduced to the kid. Quinn's brother-in-law, Steffen (shteffan) was talking to us and we told him about the cute drummer kid and then out of nowhere he was like Oh you need to meet my friend Tobias. And he turned around and it was the cute kid! So we were talking to him and it turns out he's 17, he's a convert, Steffen baptized him, and he's taking a trip to California this year. Then after we talked to him we tracked him down because we decided we wanted a picture of him. He blushed and was acting really self concious but we got a pretty cute one of him. It was awesome! We hope we can see him when we go to church again, but we don't know. He asked us if we would be there next week and when we said no he looked really sad. It was funny. After he left we were talking to Steffen and he turned to Kali and he was like so do you want to date him? And she was like NO! I'm only 15, sadly. She was so sad lol. But maybe we will see him next time. We sure hope so. Then he asked Kaelei and she was like I'm not 16 YET but I will be next month... hee hee. Then Kali was like NO WAY, LOSER! HE'S MINE! Then Lisha was like he's my age...but I have a boyfriend. So Kali said, "HA!" and we still fight about it. (jokingly, of course)
Well, the apple pie is done! Haha suckers you don't get any! BYE!
Friday: We woke up really late on Friday because we had gone to bed so late the night before. It was like 11:40 or so. It was Coni's birthday so while we went to a waterslide park to swim, Coni went to her sister's house with her little girls. It was Friday the thirteenth so of course we had lots of bad luck lol. The normally 15-minute drive to Coni's sister's house from the pool took her 2 hours with all the traffic and detours. And Kali got REALLY beat up on the slides because she was too small to protect herself lol and she got slammed into the wall multiple times which Lisha and Kaelei found HILARIOUS! but Kali did not. IT HURT! Kaelei and Lisha got their own share of bumps and bruises and "hilarious falls" too. Kali and Kaelei met this weird hispanic kid who claims to have been from the U.S. but when we asked him what state he was from, he said Miami. So, we aren't really sure what the real story is. He was really funny. He said he was looking for girls who spoke english because it was driving him crazy when the German girls couldn't understand him. We got away from him as fast as we could lol. So, when we went home we had a little party for Coni. She had some friends come over and we gave Coni her presents. She was happy, but she asked for stuff for Kaylee and she was SO EXCITED! She modelled every single outfit we got her and gave us a hug wearing each one. It was way cute.
Saturday: We had to wake up early on Saturday (about 5 a.m. or so), even though we were up way late Friday night. The reason for waking up at 5 a.m. after going to sleep at 2-3 a.m. last night is we were going to the temple. We had to meet Quinn at the temple, and the temple is far away. We went with a crazy old lady who was in Coni's ward. She drove away while we were saying goodbye to Coni and the door was open and it was insane! We were trying to sleep on the way to the temple, but the crazy lady kept jabbering on about random stuff so it was hard to sleep. She wouldn't let Lisha sleep at all. Kaelei and Kali did though. We are so tired....The temple was fun. Baptisms took FOREVER though. The car ride to Hannover was awful. Tyler cried almost the whole way! But it was worth it. We got to Hannover and were going to the firework show at Herrenhausen Garten. It was so much fun. There was a crazy boy band and the lead singer was dancing all over the stage--it was hilarious! Then one of the guitar players was wearing a helmet made out of a disco ball! It was so cool! And we saw a cool fountain and took some funny pictures with Anna and Laura in front of it (while we danced around and acted like weirdos). It was a lot of fun. THEN we saw this other band called Lüneburger Schrott Trommler. They were all drummers and their drums were just metal or plastic barrels and stuff like that. We'll have to put up pictures...but ANYWAYS one of the drummers was SO CUTE!!! He was the cutest guy we had seen so far in Germany. So, being hyper and weird like we were, Lisha not included, we watched their final performance and went up to the hot guy and asked for a picture with him. So, as Kali was in heaven with his arm around her posing for a picture, EVERYONE in sight was watching because they thought it was so funny. Kali is pretty red in the pictures....We didn't get good ones because the cameras were being retarded. The only good one was really dark, so you can't see him very well. :( Lisha didn't think he was very cute but Kali, Kaelei, and Anna sure did! He was amazing! lol just kidding he was cute though. They have a website (in German of course). It's http://www.trommeltraum.de if you want to look at it. The pictures are at the top. The pictures aren't all that great but its the best we can do.
Today: Today we sang in the Hannover Ward. We sang Walk Tall, You're a Daughter of God. It was pretty scary, but apparently we did well because we got lots of compliments. It was weird. Young Womens was first, then Sunday School, THEN Sacrament Meeting. We skipped YW to practice our song for the first time ever. Class was way fun. There was a cute guy in our class and the teacher tried to translate the lesson into english for us, so that was cool. It was funny the way we got introduced to the kid. Quinn's brother-in-law, Steffen (shteffan) was talking to us and we told him about the cute drummer kid and then out of nowhere he was like Oh you need to meet my friend Tobias. And he turned around and it was the cute kid! So we were talking to him and it turns out he's 17, he's a convert, Steffen baptized him, and he's taking a trip to California this year. Then after we talked to him we tracked him down because we decided we wanted a picture of him. He blushed and was acting really self concious but we got a pretty cute one of him. It was awesome! We hope we can see him when we go to church again, but we don't know. He asked us if we would be there next week and when we said no he looked really sad. It was funny. After he left we were talking to Steffen and he turned to Kali and he was like so do you want to date him? And she was like NO! I'm only 15, sadly. She was so sad lol. But maybe we will see him next time. We sure hope so. Then he asked Kaelei and she was like I'm not 16 YET but I will be next month... hee hee. Then Kali was like NO WAY, LOSER! HE'S MINE! Then Lisha was like he's my age...but I have a boyfriend. So Kali said, "HA!" and we still fight about it. (jokingly, of course)
Well, the apple pie is done! Haha suckers you don't get any! BYE!
Thursday, June 12, 2008
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