One nice thing being here this long is you get to know the people in the stores around here. There’s a small café called”dailies” downstairs where we’ve eaten every day. Got to know the nice people who work there. Today they wanted to see some of my led  bling. It was great getting to talk to them. Part of what makes this feel a little like home

Thanks guys !

S

later on i drifted down to teh lobby.. where a bazillion folks were watching Bayarn nott winning a soccor match..

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i am goign to miss this place…

nite all, nite sam

-me

as in.. i think its monday.. That I’m not sure exactly get what day it was. It’s either a Monday or Tuesday I spent the entire day inside I like not being bored… I’ve never been this ‘not bored’ in recent history.

 

Really not much to report… And having trouble staying awake.

ooops.. just woke up 10 minutes after the previous paragraph !

 

better shut down now !

nite all, nite sam

-me

Just back from a really nice weekend in Uberlingen with Niklaus, Brigitta and Kristina.. it was so great hanging out with them and my freinds Mark, Norma, and Denana.. it was s good mix of doign stuff and hanging out.

 

One of my favoirite things was gettign German lessons from 11 year old kristina.. Today she taught em a walkign song..   you call of ten paces

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,20

then you say..

Ein Hut, ein Stock, ein himmelblauer Unterrock!

WHich means a hat a stick, a sky blue pettycoat…

then forward , backward, sideways stand..

don’t ask me why  🙂

 

we spent the mornign explorign the town.. it was cold and wet…. there was a marathon being run in the town.. so soem of the streets were blocked..and you could hear the crowd cheering.. good day for a long run, i think

the town is abeutifully preserved.. with lots of cool old bbuildings and narrow  windy streets.

 

the catherdral there is beutiful !

 

here’s Niklas, Brigitta and Kristina 

 

this door was renovated in 1959.. the year I was born !

 

there’s the lake down below 

 

we spent a nice hour in the city museam.. it had cool stuff liek clock movements 

 

cannon balls

 

beetles

\\bats 

 

there was a ton on the faschings tradition here.. a bit hard to explain.. but the good/bad guy is henzelle.. who dresses like this   and carries a whip 

 

and the lion who looks like this

 

there were displays of the carnival traditions of nearby towns as well.. all very bizzaree.. and very differnt from one another

 

the veiw from teh garden of the museum was amazxing 

 

then back for lunch.. and the trip back to munich

 

one quick stop to check on the samstoen I’d placesd.. 

 

kristina and niklaus put it in a better place !

 

great weekend.. now time to sleep !

note all. note sam

-me

 

 

Greetings from Uberlingen. We have had a really wonderful day visiting our friend Niklas and his family in this beautiful town. it is been a pleasure getting to meet Niklas  family . His wife and daughter are so very nice.

 

day  started eraly with a quick good bye to Travis

 

then a run with Norma.. Mark didt come today

 

then we all walked up to Niklaus’s up the ‘devils staircase’

Nik gave us a beutifu tour of the town near his house

 

 

here is nik and brigitta’s daughter Katrina.. She’s so AWESOME !.. peaks perfect english too !

 

she taght  us the goofy saying ”

mein lieber Herr Gesangverein

 

which means ‘Dear mister singing group’.. and its soemthign you say like “OMG !”… not sure exactly why.. but it sounds funny !

 

then we drove to Affenberg to see the Storks and Apes..

 

 

 

we had a nice lunch there..

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

we had a nice lunch there

 

then headed to the poll house museum. by car.. and caught a small bus. the museum was very good.. THey were mostly reconstructions of bronze age pole huts in the lake. Very beutifully done !

 

theres a place down the river where you can book zepplin rides !

then back to the hotel for soem rest… /

 

an hour later we went out and walked to the resutarnt.

 

funny name for a good hotel !

great dinner !

 

then home for laundry 

 

through that about 3 hurs of tryign to get through my email list.. gotta learn a better way

 

ok.. gotta sleep.. more tomorrow

 

rabbit, rabibit, rabbit !

note all, nite sam

-me