On Monday, the 23rd, Valentines mom, Uschi, took us to a Museum. It was called Deutsches Auswandererhaus, which means German Emigration Center. It took two hours to drive there, so it was a long drive. The museum was all about Germans and other Europeans that emigrated to America. We were there for about 3 1/2 hours. We got to learn about what it was like to be an emigrant from Bremerhaven, Germany to New York, and what it was like on the ship that went there. After that we drove over to where a bunch of restaurants were and we got some chicken and fries. Then we took the 2 hour drive back home.
When we got back to Quinn's house we went to the grocery store to pick up some bread, meet, and cheese... and some chocolate of course. That night we had abent brot for dinner. Abent brot is just having a bunch of bread and a ton of different kinds of cheese, meet and spreads with it. It was way good. Then we had strawberries and ice cream! Mmmm... yummy! Then watched another soccer game, Spain v Italy, we think Spain won.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Monday, June 23, 2008
Saturday/Sunday
On Saturday Kaelei and Lisha slept in till 10 AM because we were up late again the night before. Kali slept over at Anna's house the night before because the ball that she went to ended really late. Kali came home from Anna's house at about noon and at 12:30 Anna's mom, Katharina, came and got the three of us to go to a swimming activity. Anna's little sister, Laura, was swimming in this too so she was "the cool girl with American friends". This swimming activity was a fund raiser of some sort and it was a 24 hour consistent relay, 3 PM on Saturday to 3 PM on Sunday. Kali and Kaelei were disappointed that they missed church because they couldn't see Tobi (the cute kid). There were several other teams that were involved in this relay too. The teams there were not very big compared to the ones at home. Our team was the biggest and it had about 30 people including the three of us. Each team was divided into groups with about ten people in each group. Each group (out of all the teams) were given 3 times that they were to swim. Lisha's group swam from 4 PM - 3 PM, Midnight - 1 AM, and 8 AM - 9 AM. Kaelei and Kali were in the same group and they swam from 8 PM to 9 PM, 4 AM - 5 AM, and Noon - 1 PM. So each group did there own little really for an hour at a time. We had loads of fun! We set up our own little tent with sleeping bags so we could sleep between our time sto swim.
We got to know a few people on the team. Sabrina was a very nice girl and is going to be turning 18 this year. Dimitri was nice but seamed really shy because he thought that when he spoke English that he sounded dumb. But we were able to talk to him a little bit even though he would get really embarrassed if he didn't know the English word. Dimitri looks like he is 17 or 18... but he's 15... he he. There was one boy, Jannik, that spoke really good English. Jannik is 18 and he went to school in America for a year and that's why his English is so good. Lisha talked with him nearly the ENTIRE time. If she wasn't sleeping or swimming in the water, she was talking to Jannik. Kaelei and Kali went jumping of the diving platforms in the side pool but Lisha didn't want to go with them because she was still talking to Jannik. Kaelei and Kali went of the 5 meter platform a few times. The three of us, Sabrina, Dimitri and Jannik all played ladders and Uno together. Since Lisha was always with Jannik she taught him all sorts of card games.
At the 24 hour relay the team gave us nice t-shirts with the team logo on it and team caps too! Kaelei and Kali's grope got a first place trophy for swimming the most meters out of all the groups. And Lisha's group got a second place trophy.
On Sunday after the relay was over, Katharina took us all back to Quinn's house had we were kinda lazy because we were so tired from not getting very much sleep with the relay and all. We watched an intense soccer game, Spain v Italy. It went into over time and it was still tied 0-0, so it went into a shoot out. Spain won 2-4 and it was a great victory because Italy won the world cup two years ago. The game went late so we went to bed late... again. And we were about to go to bed when this HUGE SPIDER came in the room. Now we are not exaggerating when we are saying that it is GINORMOUS!
The Spider Story, as told by Kali with the help of Kaelei and Lisha:
It was about 12:22 at night and we we sitting on our beds, talking. When out of no where an ENORMOUS spider crawled sinisterly into the room. DUHN DUHN DUHN DUHN (organ sound) ...then Kaelei said, "OMG YOU GUYS THERE'S A HUGE SPIDER SITTING BY LISHA'S SHOE!" "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Kali screams like a damsel in distress as she lunges onto Kaelei's pillow, saying with wide eyes, "Sorry 'bout your pillow, Kaelei, but my butt's on it now!" Then as we contemplated the horror of the situation, we realize that we need to do something before it crawls into Kali's half packed suitcase and is lost forEVER. "Who's gonna squish it?" we ask. "I will if I HAVE to," Lisha squeaks bravely. "I won't! I would cry," Kali says almost in tears. "Me neither," Kaelei says, "but here's my shoe, Lisha." " THANKS a LOT, Kaelei," Lisha groans. "You're welcome, have fun," Kaelei responds, grinning. Lisha slowly stalks the spider, tail sticking straight up in the air, tensing for the kill, when all of a sudden..."Guys, I can't DO it! It's eyes are looking straight into mine...and it looks so BIG!" she wails pitifully. We sit there, plotting for about 5 minutes. "What should we do?" we ask. "Let's get Benny!" someone suggests. "Maybe he'll hear us if we yell!" Kaelei says hopefully. "BENNY! HELP US! THERE'S A BIG HUGE SPIDER!" Nothing happens. "Darn it." "Kali, go wake them up! They're YOUR relatives." they suggest. "Not by MYSELF! What if there's MORE?!" "Ok fine," Kaelei snaps, "I'll come too." "What about Lisha?" Kali squeaks pitifully. "Oh yeah, just leave me here to DIE!" Lisha exclaims, "when you get back, make sure to pay for my funeral!" So, Kali and Kaelei left, making the long trek up the stairs, leaving Lisha at the mercy of the terrifying spider.
Lisha with the sp-sp-spider (as told by Kali and Kaelei while Lisha diligently helps Quinn with her math homework):
So, while Kali and Kaelei are upstairs doing who knows what, Lisha is downstairs sitting on her bed carefully watching the spider for any movement. I really want to get a picture of this spider, Lisha thinks, but my camera is in my shoe, right next to the spider. Oh well, I'll try it anyways. So she creeps down to Kali's bed and perches precariously on the edge, trying to find a way to get the camera without disturbing the spider. She looks into the spider's eyes, engaged in a crucial staring match with the spider, "No, I can't do it. It's just too scary!" she says out loud to no one in particular. Then suddenly the other girls showed up with reinforcements. The scare was over.
Back to the other girls: tap tap tap...Kali, quiet as a mouse goes up to the bedroom door of Quinn and Benny and softly taps on the door. She's afraid to wake them up, but she's even more afraid to leave them asleep with the danger in the basement. "Quinn?" she softly whispers. No answer. "Quinn?" Again, no reply. "QUINN?!" "What? What happened? What's wrong?" Quinn says groggily, sitting up in bed. "There's a HUGE spider downstairs in our room and we don't know what to do about it. Will you help us?" Kaelei cackles like a witch, thinking how hilarious the whole situation is. "Yeah, sure, just gimme a second," she says, getting out of bed. So, we hurried down the stairs to rescue Lisha from the utter peril of the beast. "OH MY GOSH!" Quinn exclaims, finally awake, "THAT THING IS HUGE! You guys weren't kidding! That's the biggest spider I've ever seen!" So, Quinn goes to fetch a jar to capture the spider with. "HOORAY FOR SPIDER-WOMAN!" we cheer, semi-quietly. (Don't forget, we wouldn't want to wake up the little ones.) Then we took pictures of the spider, now at OUR mercy, in a transparent glass jar. Kali got an awesome close-up picture of the horrendous hairy monster. Then we flushed it down the toilet and went to bed.
***Author's Note: We will post a picture of the spider later, for now, just use your imagination.***
We got to know a few people on the team. Sabrina was a very nice girl and is going to be turning 18 this year. Dimitri was nice but seamed really shy because he thought that when he spoke English that he sounded dumb. But we were able to talk to him a little bit even though he would get really embarrassed if he didn't know the English word. Dimitri looks like he is 17 or 18... but he's 15... he he. There was one boy, Jannik, that spoke really good English. Jannik is 18 and he went to school in America for a year and that's why his English is so good. Lisha talked with him nearly the ENTIRE time. If she wasn't sleeping or swimming in the water, she was talking to Jannik. Kaelei and Kali went jumping of the diving platforms in the side pool but Lisha didn't want to go with them because she was still talking to Jannik. Kaelei and Kali went of the 5 meter platform a few times. The three of us, Sabrina, Dimitri and Jannik all played ladders and Uno together. Since Lisha was always with Jannik she taught him all sorts of card games.
At the 24 hour relay the team gave us nice t-shirts with the team logo on it and team caps too! Kaelei and Kali's grope got a first place trophy for swimming the most meters out of all the groups. And Lisha's group got a second place trophy.
On Sunday after the relay was over, Katharina took us all back to Quinn's house had we were kinda lazy because we were so tired from not getting very much sleep with the relay and all. We watched an intense soccer game, Spain v Italy. It went into over time and it was still tied 0-0, so it went into a shoot out. Spain won 2-4 and it was a great victory because Italy won the world cup two years ago. The game went late so we went to bed late... again. And we were about to go to bed when this HUGE SPIDER came in the room. Now we are not exaggerating when we are saying that it is GINORMOUS!
The Spider Story, as told by Kali with the help of Kaelei and Lisha:
It was about 12:22 at night and we we sitting on our beds, talking. When out of no where an ENORMOUS spider crawled sinisterly into the room. DUHN DUHN DUHN DUHN (organ sound) ...then Kaelei said, "OMG YOU GUYS THERE'S A HUGE SPIDER SITTING BY LISHA'S SHOE!" "AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHH!" Kali screams like a damsel in distress as she lunges onto Kaelei's pillow, saying with wide eyes, "Sorry 'bout your pillow, Kaelei, but my butt's on it now!" Then as we contemplated the horror of the situation, we realize that we need to do something before it crawls into Kali's half packed suitcase and is lost forEVER. "Who's gonna squish it?" we ask. "I will if I HAVE to," Lisha squeaks bravely. "I won't! I would cry," Kali says almost in tears. "Me neither," Kaelei says, "but here's my shoe, Lisha." " THANKS a LOT, Kaelei," Lisha groans. "You're welcome, have fun," Kaelei responds, grinning. Lisha slowly stalks the spider, tail sticking straight up in the air, tensing for the kill, when all of a sudden..."Guys, I can't DO it! It's eyes are looking straight into mine...and it looks so BIG!" she wails pitifully. We sit there, plotting for about 5 minutes. "What should we do?" we ask. "Let's get Benny!" someone suggests. "Maybe he'll hear us if we yell!" Kaelei says hopefully. "BENNY! HELP US! THERE'S A BIG HUGE SPIDER!" Nothing happens. "Darn it." "Kali, go wake them up! They're YOUR relatives." they suggest. "Not by MYSELF! What if there's MORE?!" "Ok fine," Kaelei snaps, "I'll come too." "What about Lisha?" Kali squeaks pitifully. "Oh yeah, just leave me here to DIE!" Lisha exclaims, "when you get back, make sure to pay for my funeral!" So, Kali and Kaelei left, making the long trek up the stairs, leaving Lisha at the mercy of the terrifying spider.
Lisha with the sp-sp-spider (as told by Kali and Kaelei while Lisha diligently helps Quinn with her math homework):
So, while Kali and Kaelei are upstairs doing who knows what, Lisha is downstairs sitting on her bed carefully watching the spider for any movement. I really want to get a picture of this spider, Lisha thinks, but my camera is in my shoe, right next to the spider. Oh well, I'll try it anyways. So she creeps down to Kali's bed and perches precariously on the edge, trying to find a way to get the camera without disturbing the spider. She looks into the spider's eyes, engaged in a crucial staring match with the spider, "No, I can't do it. It's just too scary!" she says out loud to no one in particular. Then suddenly the other girls showed up with reinforcements. The scare was over.
Back to the other girls: tap tap tap...Kali, quiet as a mouse goes up to the bedroom door of Quinn and Benny and softly taps on the door. She's afraid to wake them up, but she's even more afraid to leave them asleep with the danger in the basement. "Quinn?" she softly whispers. No answer. "Quinn?" Again, no reply. "QUINN?!" "What? What happened? What's wrong?" Quinn says groggily, sitting up in bed. "There's a HUGE spider downstairs in our room and we don't know what to do about it. Will you help us?" Kaelei cackles like a witch, thinking how hilarious the whole situation is. "Yeah, sure, just gimme a second," she says, getting out of bed. So, we hurried down the stairs to rescue Lisha from the utter peril of the beast. "OH MY GOSH!" Quinn exclaims, finally awake, "THAT THING IS HUGE! You guys weren't kidding! That's the biggest spider I've ever seen!" So, Quinn goes to fetch a jar to capture the spider with. "HOORAY FOR SPIDER-WOMAN!" we cheer, semi-quietly. (Don't forget, we wouldn't want to wake up the little ones.) Then we took pictures of the spider, now at OUR mercy, in a transparent glass jar. Kali got an awesome close-up picture of the horrendous hairy monster. Then we flushed it down the toilet and went to bed.
***Author's Note: We will post a picture of the spider later, for now, just use your imagination.***
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
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