Germany Day 3

Today was our third day in Germany. It was a better day than yesterday (I loved yesterday, but I was really sick). So today was great, except for getting kicked off my dance team via email. Right. I'm the Vice-Captain of said dance team, and our coach-ish person kicked me off. Let's not go there here. This is my travel blog.


Dad wearing the Austrian hat at breakfast. Breakfast was so good!

Johanna und die Katz Adolf. The cat is named Adolf b/c of his mustache. :-)


Giti's Church - prettiest altar in the world, I swear.

Top of the pulpit.

Stairs I almost fell down b/c I'm dumb and the railing is exponentially old and weak.

Bottom of the pulpit. Moses is holding it up.

Giti's house.
Wurtzburg - pretend that's right. Anyways, this is a palace based off of Versailles.


This is Darin pushing my wheel chair. Meine Rollstuhl.

This is how I feel in my Rollstuhl.

Look! It's like Madison, but in Wurtzburg.

SMART CAR! So much cooler when they were only European.

Castle thing.
Me at breakfast... look at that food!

Us with Frau Ulrich - such a wonderful woman! She's 95! And so wonderful and animated!

Me lighting a candle.
Cone trees in the Castle's Garden.

And I meant to post a photo of me playing the organ this morning (it was really fun but hard, and my dad and Darin screwed up and only took video). And I meant to post a photo of Giti playing (she's so amazing), but I screwed up and posted a fuzzy photo instead. I'm too lazy to find it again, so Imagine a really pretty organ, and Giti playing it.

Love,
Carla

Germany Day 2

This is our second day in Germany. (I'm in a little bit of a bad mood right now as I write this. I just got kicked out of my dance studio via email.)

This is Darin. He got a hard-boiled egg. Hopefully tomorrow he will eat and not sit around waiting for his egg :-)


We went to a cemetery.



Durer's grave. He was an artist. I may have spelled it wrong.

Pretty view of buildings from the cemetery.

Fountain in Nurnburg :-) I took photos of the bank that was robbed when I was three, while Dad and Grandpa were in it - but they weren't blog-worthy.

Most ridiculous fountain I've ever seen. I dare you to do this, Kyra, after the baby is born :-)

Church. Some sort of church. I'm getting day 2 and 3 confused, so I don't know what this was.

We ended up in the Red Light District. What a cool town. Church, Red Light District, Modern Art Museum, Church - in that order.

More in the RLD


Haha - and I learned they have Stargate SG-1 in Deutchland!
Shoes I wanted... until I saw they were being sold in an S&M store.

FLOCKE!!! Not so kleine eisbar... Flocke is everywhere - a symbol of Nurnberg.

This was lunch. Cherry custard cake and the best chocolate drink ever.


The place we had the cake makes some seriously awesome cakes:


They've taken Flocke a little too far....
IKEA!!!


Dad is IKEA man!

Me talking to Mom on the phone!!! HI MOM!

Darin and I are going to come back and buy one of these:

Dad rubbing the lucky ring at the fountain in Nurnburg. It will bring you health until you return... I rubbed it shiny :-)

Darin, Gerhardt, und Ich in the cemetery. Meine Rollstuhl.

That's how I feel - Das Chaos. I was really sick this day, but now I'm better.

Auf Wiedersehen... and I don't care if I spelled that wrong. Look at the stone, sherlock.

Germany Day 1

HI MOM!!! I thought you'd enjoy this photo:
Today we went to Rothenburg. I bought a lot of stuff (ignore that comment, Mom). These photos are COMPLETELY out of order... but at least I got them up. Since Darin took so long to break and then fix the internet, it's really late, so these comments are short.

These are called "Snowballs." They are fried dough with powdered sugar.


Dad and Darin with Fanta - REAL EUROPEAN FANTA, not the crap we have in the states.

The clock struck twelve, the guys next to the clock drank beer.

Exit from the garden in Rothenburg.

Me and Flocke - kleine Eisbar. Little Polar Bear that Germany is obsessed with. Probably won't go to the Zoo to try and see her b/c it's being renovated.
Chris and Kyra - this one is for you! Remember this? I could have bought another one for you here in Europe! But I figured you didn't need another one ;-)

Organ at a church we went to.

Ceiling and Altar in the church we went to.

This is where we bought many things at many good prices and many discounts b/c Dad spoke good German.

Sign in Rothenburg.

Breakfast.

Me and Darin...


Just like the music box I bought... don't worry, I got it at a different store where it wasn't $500

This store's name was "The Lucky Mushroom." These are them.

We Made It

This is me and Darin on the bus to Chicago. Yes, I know. We were supposed to fly out of Milwaukee, and this was us being happy that nothing else was going to go wrong. We were so dumb.


I now see this was foreshadowing; we were destined to end up in Paris.

This is what we all looked like by the middle of this, so just guess how we felt/looked/smelled at the end.
Yes, we finally made it to Munich, but not at the right time and without our luggage. At least we're here and going to get to sleep tonight.

Dear Mom,
Gitti made beef tongue, ham, the best German potato salad ever, white asparagus, salad, and homemake cheesecake. Everyone was here :-) They loved the pictures of you, your flowers, and Snowball! Everyone says, "Hi!"

Love,
Carla (and Dad and Darin)

Today is Friday

We leave on SUNDAY!!! I'm super excited!!!

Hi Mom!!! :-)

(I'm also really excited that you will be able to see this while we're gone, Mom. I'm really proud of you for learning to use the computer for this!)