Nebraska!

Last Friday I went to Nebraska to go to a wedding. It was great meeting my second cousins. We had fun together. We got to go to a swimming pool. It was fun too. The pool was at sleep inn

Camping

I went to Maplewood State Park.It was fun.I went to the pier every day to be able to be by myself. It was so nice and pretty. I also went canoing.so fun.

All by myself!

All by myself. At swimming lessons, I swam by myself! These are what I did.Front, back, and turn over.

Swimming

My first swimming lesson started today. Mama went to the wrong school first. So we had to quickly go to the right swimming pool. I did good for not having goggles. During the floats Kjirsten kicked and swam instead of floating.

Nathaniel's birthday party

At Nathaniel's birthday party I swam in the pool all day long. I got to spend the night at their house. I got to sleep with a girl named Britta. We  played with each other. We loved playing Jaguars together. We fell asleep at 12:30at night. When we woke up we had toast and donuts. Then we went to the pool together.

Bremen and the Trip Home

Tuesday morning we packed to leave for Bremen. We got on ab S-bahn to go, but Mama didn't pay attention and got off on the wrong stop, so we had to get back on the S-bahn going the other way to catch the ICE (inter city express). After we got in (luckily it was late) we realized it would have stopped at that first station anyway.

We were supposed to transfer to another ICE but missed it because our train was late and that one was on time. So we had to take a regional train - boring! We got out stop too early so we had to take a streetcar in Bremen to the main station. We didn't spend much time in Bremen but we got to see the statue of the musicians of Bremen and kiss a pig statue. We also went inside a church. One of the people in church showed us an 800 year old mouse. She represented the devil and was in the door frame to tell everyone that only nice people come in and mean people stay out.

Then we got on a bus to Hamburg, then the overnight to Copenhagen. In the middle of the night we had a ferry crossing and could really feel the waves. Then we had a three planes and two passport controls before we finally got home!

Because of the time change, I woke up really early yesterday and today. It's not even 5:30 and I've already had breakfast and played Legos!

Kiara and Berlin Mitte

On Sunday we went to meet Kiara at the Tiergarten. We played at the beach and in a puddle. We climbed up a fake volcano that shot hot air. Then we ate ice cream. Buy when it came time to say goodbye we kept trying to run away and grip each other tight so we didn't have to let go. I cried on the way home. But we'll visit each other again. Mama and Papa want to visit Florida so we can see her then.

Monday we visited the Reichstag. The audioguide sang and had a narrator, a sheep, and a bush. We saw the Brandenburg gate and the memorial to the Jews in the Holocaust. Then we went to the Ritter sport chocolate store. Yum yum! You could buy a mini meter - a whole meter of chocolate! But it wouldn't fit in our bags. Last we saw Checkpoint Charlie. That separated East and West Berlin. Then we went home to start to pack.