Wow, It has been a very long time since I have last posted. I guess I am having to much fun. Okay lets see where I left of. So the first thing we did since my last post was go up to the coast of Italy. We drove up and found a pretty cool beach but the water was still cold so we just sat around for a bit. Then we decided to drive up to Pisa. We got there and drove around for a while looking for the leaning tower of Pisa. After going in circles a couple times we decided to park and ask someone. We stopped at the train station and found a map, We got some pizza and the we went to the leaning tower. It was really cool. There were a lot of people pretending to hold it up. It was pretty funny. Then we went to the bathroom and went home.
Our house is really cool. Not really the house though more like the neighborhood. We live really close to the Soccer stadium so after soccer games every one leaves on our street and since most of the population has scooter and motorcycles, It is just a big wave of scooter and motorcycles. It gets really funny when a car or bus comes the other way because scooter will always drive on the wrong side of the road and the bus has squeeze by them it is hilarious. Also every morning there is a market down at the stadium. Also if we ever want to go downtown the bus stop is right across the street.
So between the time of my last post and now we have gone downtown pretty often. There is a movie theater down there that plays english movies so we have seen Chloe, Fantastic Mr. Fox and Shutter Island. I would have to say Shutter Island was my favorite but it left me with a lot of questions at the end. While we are downtown we usually walk around for a bit. After we saw Shutter Island me and my mom went to the photography museum for a bit. It was pretty fun but it took a long time.
We have also been of to the Piazza Michelangelo(The place with the fake David) a few times the last time we went was at night and we got a glimpse of the sun set and then watched a couple episode of How I met Your Mother in the car on my computor. Then we got out and saw the city at night then went home.
A couple days later we went to a place called San Gimignano. It was only like an hour away so it wasn't a very long drive. The place was very cool. It was built inside these big walls. The first thing we did when we got there was go to the bathroom. Which was actually the funniest part of the day. Most bathrooms in Italy you have to pay like 0,50 euros and it is a machine that takes it. so my mom was trying to put in the money and the lady behind her is trying to help her put money in and telling what to do and my mom is says rudely "I GOT IT" Everyone outside the Bathroom looked at me the kid wearing the Canada shirt. I think we changed there stereotypical view of Canadians. HAHA. Well after that we walked down and got some pizza and then went to the torture museum. This place was pretty cool but creepy. Then there was another one down the street that was included in our ticket. This one was the execution museum. We walked in a right away we knew it was different then the last one. The last one kind of explained what they did and showed the device they used but this one had like life size sculptures of what they did. We got out of that one fast. We just zipped through saw everything and got our. After that we shopped a bit then Chelsea got some gelato and I got a slushie. Then we got in our car right as it started pouring rain.
So before my dad left I had said I would go out alone all the time. Well 2 weeks later I hadn't gone out alone. We were talking to my dad about a week ago and he made fun of me for not going out alone. So The next day I grabbed a bus ticket some money and left. When I got the the bus stop I saw the bus turn the corner I walked out to the side of the street and put my hand up like every other person that usually catches the bus there. The bus driver looked at my and kept driving. So I waited for another bus and when it came there was another lady there we were both standing at different doors and he only opened her door, so I ran to her door and got on. I guess bus drivers don't like kids. Continuing with story, I got to my stop got out and walked down the street. It is a big street that goes down to the big church in the middle of Florence. When I got near the church I decided to go down this street that has this market set up with a bunch of like souvenirs and Nick-Nacks. After that I walked around the church then looked around for bit then went home. I will stop there. Thanks for reading
Saturday, April 24, 2010
Monday, April 5, 2010
2 months down, 3 more to go
So about a week ago I had just arrived in Germany. Well then my Grammie showed up and she was early. It was a wonderful surprise. But earlier before she came me and my mom were out grocery shopping. We got to the counter and found out that they didn't take VISA. We told them we would be right back to pay...we never went back. So back to Grammie. We chatted a bit but Grammie and Jack were very tired from the Jet leg so they went and took a nap. We lay around for a couple hours. When they woke up my dad gave them the good news that he had found an old Gashaus(unknown on the spelling...it's like a German pub) they use to go to in Innsbruck. There were a lot of people so I am not gonna list everything we ate but around the table there was Cordon blue, pork schnitzle, French fries, Soup and delicious Chicken Schnitzle. We went back to our amazing hotel room and chatted for quite awhile and then went to bed. The next morning me and my mom watch the newest Survivor(Now the 2nd newest). Then we were off to my dad's teenage home. We drove in to CFB-Soellingen first. We saw where my dad use to Hitchhike, then TeenTown (which is where all the teenagers hung out and played cards, Foosball and pool...Sounds like the coolest place ever) Then we saw his old high school, then we went into the base. There was the radio station, the hockey rink and the movie theater. Everything there was nothing like how I picture. I thought some things would be more glamorous and others more scuzzy. It was still super cool though. It wasn't over though. We left the base and went into the town of Soellingen where my dads house was. Going through the town Grammie and my dad were telling old stories.
Like when he got in big trouble from Grammie because he came home at 11:45 pm and half-way between her rant she saw the clock again and realized in was 3:30 am. And also when Marney was 2 and she left the house with out Grammie knowing and was picked up down the street by a strange that no one in the town knew. There were some great stories. Then we were leaving and stopped at the bakery but they were closed. But this stop was not in vain because Grammie(or my dad) took a closer look at the house at the end of the street and realized it was Marney's old Kindergarten.
This is the Hockey Rink
This is the Movie Theater
This is the Radio Station
This is my dad and his brother Tim's High School
This is the front door of the Houlahan's house in Soelligen
This is the Back Yard of the house
This is supposedly Marney's Kindergarten
If any other Houlahan has any stories they would like to share about living in Germany, I would love to here them. Just leave a comment or send me an email-laliam40@hotmail.com
Then we went back to the hotel. My dad recommended another Gashaus down the street so we went there. It was very fun. This time people many different things. There was liver, Schnitzle, Goulash soup, and some rolled up meat thingy(You guessed...it was Grammies) Oh ya and lots of spatzle. We went back to the hotel and did the same chat till 11 and head to bed.
Then we got up in the morning and it was back on the road again. This time to Lars/Sulz. We got there and drove around everywhere trying to find their base, but it turned out it was off the highway a ways back. We did find my dads old school though...we think. Everything was being taken down so at the time there were minimal buildings to work with. Then it was off to Sulz which was just down the road. We found it on our first try. We passed where my dad use to catch the bus, then we went by there old house. Then it was off to the Gashaus. This time not for food. Their old Landlord owns the Gashaus and we were going to visit. She only spoke German so I could only understand some numbers and words like "I have". Then it was down to her daughters house for some lunch thingy. There was a 7 year old and a 5 year old there and we just hung out in there back yard the whole time. It was actually really fun because they had an awesome Dartboard, some home made Bow and arrows(That actually worked well) and a play set. Then more of there cousins arrived. Don't tell her I told you this but Chelsea thought boy that came was Hot. haha. Then we said our good byes and left. We did the same thing again this night.
In the morning we all crammed in to our car because we were going to Baden-Baden (oh ya I forgot to tell you my Grammie and Jack rented a car)The reason they all fit in was because my dad wasn't coming because he had tons of work. We got there and stopped at the tourist desk to ask a couple questions. We got a map and some information on a good place to park and we left. We got the good place to park and walked down a path to the city(It wasn't like a dirt path it, was more like a boardwalk). We walked down right to the down town. We walked right to there casino, which Grammie said she use to take all her visitors there. It was pretty nice place(The outside...We were not allowed in because of our color....of clothing. They had a dress code, they weren't racist. Then we stopped for lunch. Me and Grammie had Schnitzle and Jack, Chelsea and My mother had soup. Then we walked back to the car. Not before stopping at a Church. Grammie and Chelsea went while Jack, Grammie and I waited outside. A few minutes later they came back out. We then went up to the top of the hill and looked out over the town. We didn't look for long as it turned out it was a private school. They kicked us out. It was pretty funny. Then we went back to the car and left. Well that's what I thought but we made a stop at the hot springs spa. It looked nice. We looked and then left. This time for good. We got back. Then went out to another Gashaus for supper...as usual. Again there was a lot of schnitzle. We went back to the hotel and did the same old chatting but this time it had a sad ending because we were leaving the next day. We said our goodbyes and then went to bed. We woke up early and left. I pretty much watched movies and tv shows the whole trip and poked my head every 20 minutes to see the new scenery. We stopped along the way in Luzern. We walked around. Went to a Grocery store and got some grapes and some other stuff and left. We kept driving and then crossed the boarder into Italy. We finally got to Como. We were asking people if they knew where our hotel was, but nobody knew. So My dad got a map and he finally found the street that our hotel is on. So we stated driving and all of a sudden we are going up another big hill. It turned out our hotel was right on top of the hill looking over Como. So we got into our huge hotel room/apartment. and left. We got on the Funicular, which took is down the mountain. We found a weird grocery store and found some super cheap pizza that was delicious. so we each got a slice and then left. We then walked through there walled in walking area. I was lucky and found McDonalds. I got 2 chicken wraps for later in case I got hungry...also I wanted to put my sweet and sour sauce on them which was still at the hotel. On the way back to the Funicular me and my dad got another slice of pizza. I fed some to a swan that was in the lake. I got really close and could have touched but I was scared. They say swans can be very violent. We then went back up to the Hotel. I took a bath and then went to bed. In the morning we didn't have to leave very early, so me and my dad watch some scrubs in bed. Then we went down for breakfast with my mom. When we came back it started hailing outside and then raining again and it was off and one with the hail and rain. We packed up got in the car and left. We drove and drove some more and got to see the Mediterranean again. It's funny because we pretty much pick up where we left off in Monaco. All we missed was about 100 km between there and Monaco. A couple more hours of driving and we made it to Florence. We drove around awhile longer trying to find our apartment and finally we found it. We got all unpacked into our apartment and I was surprised by the size of it. It has a huge kitchen, a huge living room, 2 bathrooms and 2 good sized rooms. After looking around a bit me, my dad and my sister left to go find some supper. We found a super cool seafood place and got some kebabs and some potatoes and left. I went on the Internet that night and found out that The Pirate Bay doesn't work in Italy because it is banned by the Government. The Pirate Bay is the website I use to download all of my movies. The next day we had to go searching for lunch again because it was Easter weekend and we knew the grocery stores would be closed. So we walked around and got some stuff and on the way back a bout 2 or 3 blocks from our house just down the street we found and pretty good grocery store. Me and my dad picked some stuff up and we left. We didn't do much the rest of the day. We did get Chinese food for supper though. It was just down the street and very cheap. Not surprisingly I didn't like it very much. My Family didn't mind it though.The next was the day my dad was leaving to go back to Canada. It was also my moms birthday. But that wasn't till 4:00 pm. It was also my moms birthday. We mad her tea in bed(She doesn't like breakfast in bed) Then I made her toast to eat in the kitchen. We exchanged gifts and then decided to walk down to the city. We pretty much just walked down then turned around and came back but it killed the time and we got to see the city. We left right away once we got home to bring my dad back to the airport . We said goodbye to my dad at the terminal before he left. On they way back we drove around Florence aimlessly looking for a big grocery store. We finally found one. We all split up and got all the stuff we needed and met back to check out. We did all in a record time. Then we got in our car and drove around aimlessly again looking for something we recognized and then we got home. That night Chelsea made my dad's Curry Chicken. It tasted the same as the way my daddy makes it. I couldn't let Chelsea do all the cooking so I started looking up recipes to cook for my family. So I am gonna make Beer Can Chicken and Parmesan Chicken. Then Me and my mom watched the movie Evolution. It was funny. The next day I woke up and went to go to the bathroom. On the way there I stepped on something. I looked down and it was an Easter egg and there was a trail of them to the living room. I had completely forgot it was Easter. This was good for my parents because yesterday my dad bought a whole bunch of candy in pairs and I wasn't suspicious of him at all. It was good though. Lots of candy and much better kinder surprise toys. It was nice. Then I mad some lunch and when I was done the power went out, or so we thought. After watching The Blind Side we went to investigate and found out the blown fuse thingy is in the apartment basement. After sitting around all day and blown the fuse 2 more times I made supper. Nothing fancy just a frozen pizza. I took it out of the oven and went to push it of the pan and used the wrong hand. I grabbed the metal grid thingy with my bare-hand. It killed but now it's fine. Just a little blister. Now I am in bed typing this and about to go to bed. good night.
Like when he got in big trouble from Grammie because he came home at 11:45 pm and half-way between her rant she saw the clock again and realized in was 3:30 am. And also when Marney was 2 and she left the house with out Grammie knowing and was picked up down the street by a strange that no one in the town knew. There were some great stories. Then we were leaving and stopped at the bakery but they were closed. But this stop was not in vain because Grammie(or my dad) took a closer look at the house at the end of the street and realized it was Marney's old Kindergarten.
This is the Hockey Rink
This is the Movie Theater
This is the Radio Station
This is my dad and his brother Tim's High School
This is the front door of the Houlahan's house in Soelligen
This is the Back Yard of the house
This is supposedly Marney's Kindergarten
If any other Houlahan has any stories they would like to share about living in Germany, I would love to here them. Just leave a comment or send me an email-laliam40@hotmail.com
Then we went back to the hotel. My dad recommended another Gashaus down the street so we went there. It was very fun. This time people many different things. There was liver, Schnitzle, Goulash soup, and some rolled up meat thingy(You guessed...it was Grammies) Oh ya and lots of spatzle. We went back to the hotel and did the same chat till 11 and head to bed.
Then we got up in the morning and it was back on the road again. This time to Lars/Sulz. We got there and drove around everywhere trying to find their base, but it turned out it was off the highway a ways back. We did find my dads old school though...we think. Everything was being taken down so at the time there were minimal buildings to work with. Then it was off to Sulz which was just down the road. We found it on our first try. We passed where my dad use to catch the bus, then we went by there old house. Then it was off to the Gashaus. This time not for food. Their old Landlord owns the Gashaus and we were going to visit. She only spoke German so I could only understand some numbers and words like "I have". Then it was down to her daughters house for some lunch thingy. There was a 7 year old and a 5 year old there and we just hung out in there back yard the whole time. It was actually really fun because they had an awesome Dartboard, some home made Bow and arrows(That actually worked well) and a play set. Then more of there cousins arrived. Don't tell her I told you this but Chelsea thought boy that came was Hot. haha. Then we said our good byes and left. We did the same thing again this night.
In the morning we all crammed in to our car because we were going to Baden-Baden (oh ya I forgot to tell you my Grammie and Jack rented a car)The reason they all fit in was because my dad wasn't coming because he had tons of work. We got there and stopped at the tourist desk to ask a couple questions. We got a map and some information on a good place to park and we left. We got the good place to park and walked down a path to the city(It wasn't like a dirt path it, was more like a boardwalk). We walked down right to the down town. We walked right to there casino, which Grammie said she use to take all her visitors there. It was pretty nice place(The outside...We were not allowed in because of our color....of clothing. They had a dress code, they weren't racist. Then we stopped for lunch. Me and Grammie had Schnitzle and Jack, Chelsea and My mother had soup. Then we walked back to the car. Not before stopping at a Church. Grammie and Chelsea went while Jack, Grammie and I waited outside. A few minutes later they came back out. We then went up to the top of the hill and looked out over the town. We didn't look for long as it turned out it was a private school. They kicked us out. It was pretty funny. Then we went back to the car and left. Well that's what I thought but we made a stop at the hot springs spa. It looked nice. We looked and then left. This time for good. We got back. Then went out to another Gashaus for supper...as usual. Again there was a lot of schnitzle. We went back to the hotel and did the same old chatting but this time it had a sad ending because we were leaving the next day. We said our goodbyes and then went to bed. We woke up early and left. I pretty much watched movies and tv shows the whole trip and poked my head every 20 minutes to see the new scenery. We stopped along the way in Luzern. We walked around. Went to a Grocery store and got some grapes and some other stuff and left. We kept driving and then crossed the boarder into Italy. We finally got to Como. We were asking people if they knew where our hotel was, but nobody knew. So My dad got a map and he finally found the street that our hotel is on. So we stated driving and all of a sudden we are going up another big hill. It turned out our hotel was right on top of the hill looking over Como. So we got into our huge hotel room/apartment. and left. We got on the Funicular, which took is down the mountain. We found a weird grocery store and found some super cheap pizza that was delicious. so we each got a slice and then left. We then walked through there walled in walking area. I was lucky and found McDonalds. I got 2 chicken wraps for later in case I got hungry...also I wanted to put my sweet and sour sauce on them which was still at the hotel. On the way back to the Funicular me and my dad got another slice of pizza. I fed some to a swan that was in the lake. I got really close and could have touched but I was scared. They say swans can be very violent. We then went back up to the Hotel. I took a bath and then went to bed. In the morning we didn't have to leave very early, so me and my dad watch some scrubs in bed. Then we went down for breakfast with my mom. When we came back it started hailing outside and then raining again and it was off and one with the hail and rain. We packed up got in the car and left. We drove and drove some more and got to see the Mediterranean again. It's funny because we pretty much pick up where we left off in Monaco. All we missed was about 100 km between there and Monaco. A couple more hours of driving and we made it to Florence. We drove around awhile longer trying to find our apartment and finally we found it. We got all unpacked into our apartment and I was surprised by the size of it. It has a huge kitchen, a huge living room, 2 bathrooms and 2 good sized rooms. After looking around a bit me, my dad and my sister left to go find some supper. We found a super cool seafood place and got some kebabs and some potatoes and left. I went on the Internet that night and found out that The Pirate Bay doesn't work in Italy because it is banned by the Government. The Pirate Bay is the website I use to download all of my movies. The next day we had to go searching for lunch again because it was Easter weekend and we knew the grocery stores would be closed. So we walked around and got some stuff and on the way back a bout 2 or 3 blocks from our house just down the street we found and pretty good grocery store. Me and my dad picked some stuff up and we left. We didn't do much the rest of the day. We did get Chinese food for supper though. It was just down the street and very cheap. Not surprisingly I didn't like it very much. My Family didn't mind it though.The next was the day my dad was leaving to go back to Canada. It was also my moms birthday. But that wasn't till 4:00 pm. It was also my moms birthday. We mad her tea in bed(She doesn't like breakfast in bed) Then I made her toast to eat in the kitchen. We exchanged gifts and then decided to walk down to the city. We pretty much just walked down then turned around and came back but it killed the time and we got to see the city. We left right away once we got home to bring my dad back to the airport . We said goodbye to my dad at the terminal before he left. On they way back we drove around Florence aimlessly looking for a big grocery store. We finally found one. We all split up and got all the stuff we needed and met back to check out. We did all in a record time. Then we got in our car and drove around aimlessly again looking for something we recognized and then we got home. That night Chelsea made my dad's Curry Chicken. It tasted the same as the way my daddy makes it. I couldn't let Chelsea do all the cooking so I started looking up recipes to cook for my family. So I am gonna make Beer Can Chicken and Parmesan Chicken. Then Me and my mom watched the movie Evolution. It was funny. The next day I woke up and went to go to the bathroom. On the way there I stepped on something. I looked down and it was an Easter egg and there was a trail of them to the living room. I had completely forgot it was Easter. This was good for my parents because yesterday my dad bought a whole bunch of candy in pairs and I wasn't suspicious of him at all. It was good though. Lots of candy and much better kinder surprise toys. It was nice. Then I mad some lunch and when I was done the power went out, or so we thought. After watching The Blind Side we went to investigate and found out the blown fuse thingy is in the apartment basement. After sitting around all day and blown the fuse 2 more times I made supper. Nothing fancy just a frozen pizza. I took it out of the oven and went to push it of the pan and used the wrong hand. I grabbed the metal grid thingy with my bare-hand. It killed but now it's fine. Just a little blister. Now I am in bed typing this and about to go to bed. good night.
Friday, March 26, 2010
I Love Skiing(Couldn't think of a title)
The next day we decided to go down our mountain to a different skiing hill...in Bad Kleinkirchhiem. Chelsea didn't come because she wasn't feeling very well. We got there rented our skis, got our passes and we were off. We took a gondola up about half-way up the hill and then got on a chairlift. We got off the chairlift and started skiing. The first run I was terrified. The runs were quite steep and it was intimidating but after that run I was fine. We did a few runs of those and the took the chairlift to the top. It was an amazing view up there. We took some pictures and then went down the run.
We got to the middle where the chairlift is and decided to more of those runs. By the end of the day the snow was really crappy and so I fell but not bad and I got up and kept going and then fell again. After that fall I was going slow taking my time and then it wasn't a very steep part so I went a little faster and then I face planted. It didn't hurt but it made me angry I got up and went to the chairlift(different chairlift actually at the bottom of the hill) I didn't want to do another run but my dad made me so we went up again. We took a long break at the top and I tried to dry my soaking wet clothes in the sun.after about a half hour we went down again(different route...to go back to our car. The snow at the start was fine but after that there were moguls all over the hill. It was almost impossible to ski through them, but we did. Then we got on the gondola to take us down to our car. We got our car got some groceries and went back up to the lodge. That night me, my dad and Kathy(Pronounced cat-y) Went in the sauna. After our 15 minutes we got out and rolled in the snow. after that I just watched some of the many movies and T.V Shows I have on my computer. We mostly just packed the next day. Then we got up the next morning and we were on our way To Rastatt, Germany. We got some breakfast at the bakery as usual and we kept going.I watched the first episode of How I Met Your Mother and a bunch of other TV shows before we arrived in Dachau. We first went to there city and walked around a bit. We found a dollar store(or a euro store) and was able to find Rolos. So we got some of those and little things like headphones for Chelsea and batteries for my mom and we left. We then went to there concentration camp. This concentration camp was the first one that held prisoners. We went in and saw the famous sign above the door "Arbeit Machts Frie" In English it is "Work Makes You Free" We kept going and went into the museum which was built by prisoners in the thirties. Inside they talked about all the torturing and first hand accounts from people who were imprisoned. After about an hour we went back to the car. We stopped at McDonalds on the way and got some food and left. We got to the hotel quite a while later because the traffic was horrible. We hardly broke 30 on the autobahn. In that time though I was able to watch Rain Man. It is a great movie. We got all settled in our huge amazing room( It has a walk in closet for all our suitcases, a bathroom a separate shower and bath, a king size bed, 2 singles, a desk with a TV, a pullout couch, 2 arm chairs, a kind of coffee table and a fridge. They also gave us a bunch of internet cords so that we can use the internet here. After that we went out to find some place to eat. We almost settled on Burger King when a Chinese place caught our eyes. It was a buffet too. So we did the buffet thing. It was awesome. We came home and I took a bath and watched some TV on my computer then went to bed. Now I am awake and typing this and anxious to see my Grammie. She should be here in about 4 and a half hours...Yay. Thank you for reading, Have a good one.
We got to the middle where the chairlift is and decided to more of those runs. By the end of the day the snow was really crappy and so I fell but not bad and I got up and kept going and then fell again. After that fall I was going slow taking my time and then it wasn't a very steep part so I went a little faster and then I face planted. It didn't hurt but it made me angry I got up and went to the chairlift(different chairlift actually at the bottom of the hill) I didn't want to do another run but my dad made me so we went up again. We took a long break at the top and I tried to dry my soaking wet clothes in the sun.after about a half hour we went down again(different route...to go back to our car. The snow at the start was fine but after that there were moguls all over the hill. It was almost impossible to ski through them, but we did. Then we got on the gondola to take us down to our car. We got our car got some groceries and went back up to the lodge. That night me, my dad and Kathy(Pronounced cat-y) Went in the sauna. After our 15 minutes we got out and rolled in the snow. after that I just watched some of the many movies and T.V Shows I have on my computer. We mostly just packed the next day. Then we got up the next morning and we were on our way To Rastatt, Germany. We got some breakfast at the bakery as usual and we kept going.I watched the first episode of How I Met Your Mother and a bunch of other TV shows before we arrived in Dachau. We first went to there city and walked around a bit. We found a dollar store(or a euro store) and was able to find Rolos. So we got some of those and little things like headphones for Chelsea and batteries for my mom and we left. We then went to there concentration camp. This concentration camp was the first one that held prisoners. We went in and saw the famous sign above the door "Arbeit Machts Frie" In English it is "Work Makes You Free" We kept going and went into the museum which was built by prisoners in the thirties. Inside they talked about all the torturing and first hand accounts from people who were imprisoned. After about an hour we went back to the car. We stopped at McDonalds on the way and got some food and left. We got to the hotel quite a while later because the traffic was horrible. We hardly broke 30 on the autobahn. In that time though I was able to watch Rain Man. It is a great movie. We got all settled in our huge amazing room( It has a walk in closet for all our suitcases, a bathroom a separate shower and bath, a king size bed, 2 singles, a desk with a TV, a pullout couch, 2 arm chairs, a kind of coffee table and a fridge. They also gave us a bunch of internet cords so that we can use the internet here. After that we went out to find some place to eat. We almost settled on Burger King when a Chinese place caught our eyes. It was a buffet too. So we did the buffet thing. It was awesome. We came home and I took a bath and watched some TV on my computer then went to bed. Now I am awake and typing this and anxious to see my Grammie. She should be here in about 4 and a half hours...Yay. Thank you for reading, Have a good one.
Monday, March 22, 2010
Chilling and Relaxing
I have decided to split up these posts because they will be very long. We got in and I was happy to find out that the Other Family was giving me and Chelsea the good room(It has a king bed and then a little ladder up to like another room with a double bed). The lodge also has these really comfy chairs.
The Family we are with has 2 kids as well. One 2 year old girl and One 4 year old boy. The boy is know skiing and very well and the girl is a little cutie who calls me big boy. After getting settled I opened my computer and start downloading. I checked back 10 minutes later to find out a lot of my things had downloaded. The Internet connection was great. So I download as much as I could. The next day we chillaxed. We sat around and did nothing. The next day though we went skiing. We rented our skis and got onto the hill. It had been a year since I had skied so I was doing a lot of Pizza cutting. We stayed till about 2:00 pm then walked back home. I decided to go in the sauna that night. It was great. I stayed in for 15 minutes at 85 degrees Celsius then I ran outside and rolled in the snow. 
It was actually refreshing. The next day we got up and went to Salzburg. The birth place of Mozart and where The Sound of Music was filmed. We walked to the old part of town and found a market and my family found a hot dog place(well really a sausage place) and they got hot dogs but I decided to wait and find something else. The funny thing is though the market went around a Church where they filmed a piece of The Sound of Music. We kept walking and found a grave yard. We looked around and found some catacombs when we were leaving my mom asked some random person if they knew where the Mozart family tomb was. It turned out it was right at the entrance to the catacombs. We kept going and went by a very creepy mime type person. He was very creepy though and because of that my dad gave him money...as usually. On they back to the car we went and saw the house where mozart grew up. Then on the way we decided to walk through a park. There was a fountain there too and we sat there for a while and then walked up these stairs and got to the car and left. Turns out that is where the kids run down the stairs and around the fountain singing Do,ra,mi. We stopped at the gocery store to pick up a couple of things. Mostly the bake your own baguettes because thats what we've been eating every morning. We didn't anything for a couple of days but then we went skiing again. This time though Chelsea didn't come because she was sick(of skiing) We got our skis again this time they were different though and we were on our way. The first run down was mostly pizza cut but then it was all straight skis for me. It was really fun when I could actually ski with my skis straight(I like to set the bar low). Again I went home at around 2:00pm. The funny thing was the guy there had given us good skis. So I was a better skier with the better skis...ironic. The next day we went to Graz. The 2nd biggest city in Austria. We got there and parked then looked for a place to eat. We turned a corner and guess what we saw...a Subway. I was so happy. I got the Chicken sandwich thingy. It was good. We then walked down to this shopping place and found Gelato. I decided to get some this time. I got 2 scoops. 1 cookies and cream the other Raspberry. Then we kept walking and found a tunnel that went down through a little mountain. It turned out it was a bomb shelter that could hold 50,000 people. It was big because it had little branches that went out for more people to fit. Half way down we found a little side branch with elevators.
We went up to the top of where the elevators went too and then just kept walking till we got to the top of the hill. It was a very beautiful view and we saw these odd shaped thinks in the river it was like a building the middle of the river. We went down and checked it out. It was actually a pretty non-fancy restaurant and it had this play thingy that was all ropes but a maze with a slide at the end. Me and Chelsea did it in about 2 minutes...It was very fun though. We then walked back to our car and left. We did stop at McDonald's though to pick up some more Chinese sauce. Then When we got back to around where we are staying we got some groceries and went out for supper. The next(Which is today) We sat around some more. But I used my time wisely and learned some German. I can know speak to people in German about important things like where bathrooms are and How much something is.
The Family we are with has 2 kids as well. One 2 year old girl and One 4 year old boy. The boy is know skiing and very well and the girl is a little cutie who calls me big boy. After getting settled I opened my computer and start downloading. I checked back 10 minutes later to find out a lot of my things had downloaded. The Internet connection was great. So I download as much as I could. The next day we chillaxed. We sat around and did nothing. The next day though we went skiing. We rented our skis and got onto the hill. It had been a year since I had skied so I was doing a lot of Pizza cutting. We stayed till about 2:00 pm then walked back home. I decided to go in the sauna that night. It was great. I stayed in for 15 minutes at 85 degrees Celsius then I ran outside and rolled in the snow. 
It was actually refreshing. The next day we got up and went to Salzburg. The birth place of Mozart and where The Sound of Music was filmed. We walked to the old part of town and found a market and my family found a hot dog place(well really a sausage place) and they got hot dogs but I decided to wait and find something else. The funny thing is though the market went around a Church where they filmed a piece of The Sound of Music. We kept walking and found a grave yard. We looked around and found some catacombs when we were leaving my mom asked some random person if they knew where the Mozart family tomb was. It turned out it was right at the entrance to the catacombs. We kept going and went by a very creepy mime type person. He was very creepy though and because of that my dad gave him money...as usually. On they back to the car we went and saw the house where mozart grew up. Then on the way we decided to walk through a park. There was a fountain there too and we sat there for a while and then walked up these stairs and got to the car and left. Turns out that is where the kids run down the stairs and around the fountain singing Do,ra,mi. We stopped at the gocery store to pick up a couple of things. Mostly the bake your own baguettes because thats what we've been eating every morning. We didn't anything for a couple of days but then we went skiing again. This time though Chelsea didn't come because she was sick(of skiing) We got our skis again this time they were different though and we were on our way. The first run down was mostly pizza cut but then it was all straight skis for me. It was really fun when I could actually ski with my skis straight(I like to set the bar low). Again I went home at around 2:00pm. The funny thing was the guy there had given us good skis. So I was a better skier with the better skis...ironic. The next day we went to Graz. The 2nd biggest city in Austria. We got there and parked then looked for a place to eat. We turned a corner and guess what we saw...a Subway. I was so happy. I got the Chicken sandwich thingy. It was good. We then walked down to this shopping place and found Gelato. I decided to get some this time. I got 2 scoops. 1 cookies and cream the other Raspberry. Then we kept walking and found a tunnel that went down through a little mountain. It turned out it was a bomb shelter that could hold 50,000 people. It was big because it had little branches that went out for more people to fit. Half way down we found a little side branch with elevators.
We went up to the top of where the elevators went too and then just kept walking till we got to the top of the hill. It was a very beautiful view and we saw these odd shaped thinks in the river it was like a building the middle of the river. We went down and checked it out. It was actually a pretty non-fancy restaurant and it had this play thingy that was all ropes but a maze with a slide at the end. Me and Chelsea did it in about 2 minutes...It was very fun though. We then walked back to our car and left. We did stop at McDonald's though to pick up some more Chinese sauce. Then When we got back to around where we are staying we got some groceries and went out for supper. The next(Which is today) We sat around some more. But I used my time wisely and learned some German. I can know speak to people in German about important things like where bathrooms are and How much something is.
Driving to Paradise...1 country at a time
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been having to much fun. So we left France Friday morning(The 12th of March) very early(around 5:00) We drove for about an hour and a half and stopped at a bakery to get some breaky. We had our baguettes and croissants and were on our way. It was nice having my laptop because I had Downloaded movies and could watch them without needing the Internet. So Through out the trip I watched the Hurt Locker(Great Movie) and the first season of Even Stevens(a show I watched when I was younger. If your wondering it is still funny)We went up and down many mountains through out the day and at around 10:00 am we stopped again. This time in Albertville(The host of the 1992 Winter Olympics) We walked around downtown but there was much so we left. We did drive through the Olympic Village. That was really cool. We kept driving until we got to a place Called Chamonix. It was a a really ski city nestled between 2 big mountains. This is where we had lunch. My dad got a sandwich, my mom got a sandwich, my sister had some ravioli from a fast food ravioli place and I had a chicken wrap from McDonald's...also we had to pick up some more Chinese sauce. Then we kept going crossing into Switzerland. We drove for a while and ended up in the German speaking side of Switzerland. From there on it has been all German. We kept going and I was able to get some beautiful pictures of the mountains. It was very cool.
We kept going and drove for quiet awhile till we got to where we were going to stay for the night:Interlanken. It was a very beautiful town. As usuall we walked around got supper. We kept walking and went by a Hooters(I was bummed that we couldn't go) We then walked around in the park in front of the Casino then walked back to the hotel. We got up early again and kept going. We didn't do much stopping this time. We went through Liechtenstein and then into Austria. Once in Austria we stopped at a grocery store for breakfast. I was lucky to find some Cinnamon Toast crunch(My favorite cereal) but when I tried it it turns out they meant the other cinnamon. I swear the Boxes looked the same as in Canada but they were not the same. Yucky yuk. We did find a baguette so I did get breakfast. We also were bummed to find out they had no Orangina. So we got Fanta (an Orange pop kind of drink) It isn't as good as Orangina but it is still all right. We kept driving and ended up in Germany(4 countries in 1 day...we can hardly do 4 provinces in one day in Canada) While in Germany we stopped in Innsbruck for lunch. They had a burger king so we decided to just a quicky lunch. I had there chicken burger which is bread with corn flakes. It was still good. After laughing at all the ausfahrt's and einfahrt's we came across the best one at a gas station. The gas pump handle said Gute Fahrt or Good Fart. I laughed hard at that one.
We crossed back in to Austria after that and were able to get up the big mountain to our lodge/ski hill before sun down. The Bad news was that it hadn't completely melted up where we had to get down to our lodge but my mom tried anyways to get the car down. It didn't work so well and she ended up not being able to pull into the drive way and kept sliding down the hill. She tried 3 times to get the car up unsuccessfully before she put the emergency break on 3/4 up the hill and decided to unload there. We got the first 2 suit case out and I was bringing them up the hill when the car started to slide. My dad was kind of behind it and he tried to stop in form going(I guess it is human instinct)it just slid down the hill and into a snow bank. Everyone was fine. But we still had to lug the suit cases up the hill.p
We kept going and drove for quiet awhile till we got to where we were going to stay for the night:Interlanken. It was a very beautiful town. As usuall we walked around got supper. We kept walking and went by a Hooters(I was bummed that we couldn't go) We then walked around in the park in front of the Casino then walked back to the hotel. We got up early again and kept going. We didn't do much stopping this time. We went through Liechtenstein and then into Austria. Once in Austria we stopped at a grocery store for breakfast. I was lucky to find some Cinnamon Toast crunch(My favorite cereal) but when I tried it it turns out they meant the other cinnamon. I swear the Boxes looked the same as in Canada but they were not the same. Yucky yuk. We did find a baguette so I did get breakfast. We also were bummed to find out they had no Orangina. So we got Fanta (an Orange pop kind of drink) It isn't as good as Orangina but it is still all right. We kept driving and ended up in Germany(4 countries in 1 day...we can hardly do 4 provinces in one day in Canada) While in Germany we stopped in Innsbruck for lunch. They had a burger king so we decided to just a quicky lunch. I had there chicken burger which is bread with corn flakes. It was still good. After laughing at all the ausfahrt's and einfahrt's we came across the best one at a gas station. The gas pump handle said Gute Fahrt or Good Fart. I laughed hard at that one.
We crossed back in to Austria after that and were able to get up the big mountain to our lodge/ski hill before sun down. The Bad news was that it hadn't completely melted up where we had to get down to our lodge but my mom tried anyways to get the car down. It didn't work so well and she ended up not being able to pull into the drive way and kept sliding down the hill. She tried 3 times to get the car up unsuccessfully before she put the emergency break on 3/4 up the hill and decided to unload there. We got the first 2 suit case out and I was bringing them up the hill when the car started to slide. My dad was kind of behind it and he tried to stop in form going(I guess it is human instinct)it just slid down the hill and into a snow bank. Everyone was fine. But we still had to lug the suit cases up the hill.p
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Walking in a Winter Wonderland
So a couple days ago me and my mom decided to go shopping. We needed a few things for supper and a deck of cards(it was family card night we ruined our other deck of cards). So we bought our stuff and decided it would be fun to go for a walk. So we drove over to st. Cecil de Vignes, parked the car and started walking around. We went into there little town and looked around. There wasn't much there to see and my mom had to pee, so we left. The next day we planned to go back to Grignan for the circus and then over to Brantes were there is a beautiful view of the mountain. But we woke up and blizzarding not snowing it was a blizzard. So we didn't do anything. Later that night though me and my mom went out and made a snowman and then for a walk and took pictures. 
Today was suppose to be another nothing because of the snow but in the afternoon we realized they had actually plowed the big roads so we decided to go out to get some food (just a couple things again). Before we left though we tallied up our Oscar picks to see who won. And for the second time in a row I was victorious winning 8 euros(actually 6 because we all put in 2). We then left for food. We got to the little town that we do our shopping(Toulette) and realized it was all closed because everything closes between 12:00 and 3:00 for lunch. So we drove the extra 20 minutes to Orange to walk around(It was on our go to list anyways). On the way there we saw an upside down car on the side of the road. Looked like had had been sitting there awhile. We think that the tow trucks there are just really slow. We got to Orange and walked around because they were closed too. We got back in our car and went to find an open grocery store.Everything was open now so the grocery store in Orange was open too. There we got a roasted chicken for supper and I found a drink called Gini. Since I am on a hunt for cool soft drink(That arn't in Canada) I decided to buy it. It was god awful. It was so bad, it was bitter and just disgusting. If you ever come across it, don't buy it. Then we it was off to Vaison-la-Romain because we were running short of Skippy peanut butter and they were the only place that has it. After that we headed home. We ate are roasted chicken (I dipped mine in my Chinese sauce) and now I am sitting here typing this(and being bored...just a little) Thank You for Readings
Today was suppose to be another nothing because of the snow but in the afternoon we realized they had actually plowed the big roads so we decided to go out to get some food (just a couple things again). Before we left though we tallied up our Oscar picks to see who won. And for the second time in a row I was victorious winning 8 euros(actually 6 because we all put in 2). We then left for food. We got to the little town that we do our shopping(Toulette) and realized it was all closed because everything closes between 12:00 and 3:00 for lunch. So we drove the extra 20 minutes to Orange to walk around(It was on our go to list anyways). On the way there we saw an upside down car on the side of the road. Looked like had had been sitting there awhile. We think that the tow trucks there are just really slow. We got to Orange and walked around because they were closed too. We got back in our car and went to find an open grocery store.Everything was open now so the grocery store in Orange was open too. There we got a roasted chicken for supper and I found a drink called Gini. Since I am on a hunt for cool soft drink(That arn't in Canada) I decided to buy it. It was god awful. It was so bad, it was bitter and just disgusting. If you ever come across it, don't buy it. Then we it was off to Vaison-la-Romain because we were running short of Skippy peanut butter and they were the only place that has it. After that we headed home. We ate are roasted chicken (I dipped mine in my Chinese sauce) and now I am sitting here typing this(and being bored...just a little) Thank You for Readings
Friday, March 5, 2010
llama, llama
So yesterday we didn’t do anything, it was a nothing day. Today though was really fun. I woke up and watched a bit of the show I just downloaded (The Big Bang Theory) Than at 1:00 p.m. we decided to go to Grignan. It is a little city inside a big wall. When we came into their little outside village thingy, you could see there was a circus setting up. So we drove a little further and there was this huge horse and a llama just standing on the grass eating. If you don’t know yet, Chelsea has a big obsession with llamas. Actually all her friends just love llamas, so Chelsea was very eager to get a picture with it to send to her friends. So we got out and got some pictures but never really got to close to the llama. We drove up to the wall and parked. We got out and walked inside the wall. It was a very windy day which made it hard to walk (you couldn’t imagine how windy it was). So we went up to their castle and found a vending machine and got a pop (Much less expensive then Monaco) and kept going. My mom and sister went to the bathroom there and me and my dad decided to walk around the castle and back up to the bathroom. When we got back my mom and sister were gone. So me and my dad split up and walked around the castle and found them. We walked back to the car and stopped again with the llama as I wanted to try and pat it. I was getting closer and closer and all of a sudden it charged and tackled me to the ground and spit in my face... Just Kidding. I had you going though...hahaha. I went up and he gave me a death stare so I ran away. I went back though with Chelsea this time and we slowly got closer and closer and then Chelsea touched him and ran. Then it was my turn I went up and touched and he swung its long neck around and I pealed. It was so fun.
Then we went grocery shopping. We shopped around a bit got our stuff (I also got a new pop called Organina Rasta...for Rastafarian. Its a tropical fizzy drink) and checked out. I am actually use to the food here now. I know what things are and I know what taste good and stuff. When we were leaving I decided to run over to McDonalds and get some Sweet and Sour sauce (Called Chinese sauce here...their a tincy bit racist...kidding) I got 10 of them for when my dad makes chicken. I put it in a fajita with McCain fries and top it off with the Chinese Sauce. It is delicious. Now I am sitting here typing this and about to eat supper. After that we are having Survivor night, which will be every Friday because I can only download them the day after they are on TV. I am having tons of fun here. Thanks for reading. Bye bye.
Then we went grocery shopping. We shopped around a bit got our stuff (I also got a new pop called Organina Rasta...for Rastafarian. Its a tropical fizzy drink) and checked out. I am actually use to the food here now. I know what things are and I know what taste good and stuff. When we were leaving I decided to run over to McDonalds and get some Sweet and Sour sauce (Called Chinese sauce here...their a tincy bit racist...kidding) I got 10 of them for when my dad makes chicken. I put it in a fajita with McCain fries and top it off with the Chinese Sauce. It is delicious. Now I am sitting here typing this and about to eat supper. After that we are having Survivor night, which will be every Friday because I can only download them the day after they are on TV. I am having tons of fun here. Thanks for reading. Bye bye.
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