oh i think i forgot to mention a really weird thing. yesterday at the sunday night market when i was having a massage, aaron and dad went for a coffee... they heard a loud noise coming from the street. some guy on a motorbike must have hit the metal pole of a traffic light. so he lay there on the floor with the traffic light on him, not moving and the scariest part: no one helping him! i was shocked when i heard that! even the two police men who were conpletely unnescessary with their annoying whistle wouldnt give that poor man a hand!! gooooosssshhh... so we asked chris benz about it and he said that thais NEVER EVER help someone who got in an accident. it's bad karma and therefore his or er own fault. he said thais had aboslutelqy no tolerance for drunk ppl driving, which i understand. but hellooooo, this guy did not drive into that pole all by himself!! man i would have run there to help... i mean he could have been dead.
yeah so eventually that guy got up, must have been in immense pain :s
fuck you karma?!
Montag, 18. Juli 2011
Sonntag, 17. Juli 2011
into the wild! or: who doesnt love bugs?
hello everyone again! :) i have loooots of things to talk about hihi okay so first of all, we went on a 2-day trip with pai tun. he picked us up at 8 in the morning (no problem since we always wake up at 6) and we drove for like 3.5 hours with one stop at a seven eleven. after some
coffee and chips we were back in the car and pai tun was like "hey aaron. i have something for you, i found it in the car!" and wanted to give it to him. aaron reluctantly took it but let it fall again like whaaaaaaat the hell is that!!!! A HUGE UGLY BUG! i hate bugs! and it fell on my bag :( pai tun laughed his ass off, said it was only plastic and runs with battery. dad was like okay then, its only plastic and wants to give it back to pai tun. yeah turns out our guide is a reeeeeaaaally funny guy. the bug wasnt astic and certainly not moving uts legs because of batteries -.-' !! ugh! so after that little shock pai tun brought us to a village (forgot what its called), there we had lunch (aaron pad thai as always. always always.) and we continued our travels by boat on the... kuong river with 5 other ppl. the boat let us off at some village before chiang mai, after about 2.5 hrs on the boat. so there we went on by elephant haha! wow that's bumpy! last time i sat on an elephant i sat on its head. that's much less bumpy than on than bench-like thing on the giants back. so the ride took about 1.5 hours, and the paths were sooooo narrow and covered in mud cause it had rained the night before... aaron and i saw dad's elephant slide down steep paths, almost loosing its balance... phewwww we were relieved when we hot off that animal haha... so uhhm after ozr little adventure pai tun brought us to one of the hill tribe's villages where we would spend the night. it was a little weird walking through the village for the akha people literally stopped their work and stared at us.......awkward. but yeah, we got used to eachother eventually haha. so our bamboo room balcony (i wonder how stable this construction rly was o.0). anyways, we walked aroun the place a little, trying to comunicate with the tribes granny hahahahahah i'm not sure she really has 10 babies, but ut sounded like it hahaha... chicken babies everywhere, so their food actually lives with them xD oh and they have soooooooo many dogs! thai ppl in general... its crazy i have never seen so many dogs in my life. abour 2-5 per family. i think they shld start castrating them or the dogs will take over thailand! 0.0 haha... uhm so pai tun (i always wanna write pad thai xD) and some other guy from the tribe cooked for us! deeeerrlicious! 4 different dishes yummyummy.
yeah and because we were so exhausted we went to bed early. bed is exaggerated though. i dont think the thing between me and the bamboo floor made any difference. but that wasnt the part that concerned me the most. nope! osh the insects!!! the whole fucking jungle was full of bugs and spiders and snakes and ewwwwwwwww and they were all so loud!! we had a mosquito net but still. i lay awake for like 2 hours, not moving an inch except for when i thought there was something in my ear hahaha.... terrible! i was so scared that i would wake up covered in those ugly little creatures. oh i also sprayed the whole room with antibrumm hahahaha just in case xD i fell asleep eventually, only to wake up
again at 5 in the morning, thanks to those 13 cocks making noise. but who needs sleep anyway, right? okay so we would wait til 7.30 (funny picture: we were gamimg bubble explode and samschtigjass in a bamboo room, hoping the time
til breakfast would go by faster). so after breakfast the plan said we'd go on a "walk" to the waterfall. uhmm... so we "walked" thru mud, climbed that stupid mountain (i thought i was dying) and we sweat like we never sweat before. and our jungle-man or whatever he was, walked up that mountain while making a some kinda bamboo weapon with his knife. we were unbelievably happy that we hadnt chosen the 3.5 hr "walk"! omg... but yeah the waterfall was awesome! beautiful place and really cool water with those small fish innit that eat ur dead skin off your feet hahaa! tickle tickle :D free massage. so we went on by car, heading to the golden triangle where we had lunch first and then took a look at the opium museum :D the golden triangle is one of asia's two opium-producing areas and it overlaps the mountains of four countries (thailand, burma, vietnam and laos). most of the world's heroin came from there up to the early 21st century, but now afghanistan became the world's largest producer. the museum showed tons of different pipes and accessories such as the opium cushion, an opium mat to lie on etc. it also showed the process of producing heroin (pretty exact, i think i'm gonna try that at home haha). so anyway, enough of the drugs :) cause we still had two stops before going home: the white temple and the hot springs. the white temple is simply beautiful, but also funny cause the paintings inside are very time-critical (bush and bin laden on a space rocket, michael jackson, matrix etc). the artist was there too! so we had a small talk, shook hands and then had a look at his paintings in the gallery. very nice! u gitta look it up on google, the temple is rly beautiful, especially when the sun is shining on it *sparkle* :) okay last stop hot springs :) jzt a nice bath for our poor feet, some ice cream and watching old tribe women boil their eggs in the hot spring hahahaha :)
yeah that's about it about those two days. (that was 2 days ago by the way;)) we bought books from an irish man here haha.. he's fun :D and in the evening met chris rudolf yesterday, hung around at the sunday night market and i had a 30min neck massage for exactly 2.-. jesus that woman massaged the crap outta me with her ellbows! i mean yeah i might be a pussy but that REALLY HURT man!! yeah anyway, today i cut my hair for 10.-, aaron and dad played tennis in the morning and we'll all go play some golf in the afternoon (i'm pretty sure i'm gonna suck at it! wish me luck!)
coffee and chips we were back in the car and pai tun was like "hey aaron. i have something for you, i found it in the car!" and wanted to give it to him. aaron reluctantly took it but let it fall again like whaaaaaaat the hell is that!!!! A HUGE UGLY BUG! i hate bugs! and it fell on my bag :( pai tun laughed his ass off, said it was only plastic and runs with battery. dad was like okay then, its only plastic and wants to give it back to pai tun. yeah turns out our guide is a reeeeeaaaally funny guy. the bug wasnt astic and certainly not moving uts legs because of batteries -.-' !! ugh! so after that little shock pai tun brought us to a village (forgot what its called), there we had lunch (aaron pad thai as always. always always.) and we continued our travels by boat on the... kuong river with 5 other ppl. the boat let us off at some village before chiang mai, after about 2.5 hrs on the boat. so there we went on by elephant haha! wow that's bumpy! last time i sat on an elephant i sat on its head. that's much less bumpy than on than bench-like thing on the giants back. so the ride took about 1.5 hours, and the paths were sooooo narrow and covered in mud cause it had rained the night before... aaron and i saw dad's elephant slide down steep paths, almost loosing its balance... phewwww we were relieved when we hot off that animal haha... so uhhm after ozr little adventure pai tun brought us to one of the hill tribe's villages where we would spend the night. it was a little weird walking through the village for the akha people literally stopped their work and stared at us.......awkward. but yeah, we got used to eachother eventually haha. so our bamboo room balcony (i wonder how stable this construction rly was o.0). anyways, we walked aroun the place a little, trying to comunicate with the tribes granny hahahahahah i'm not sure she really has 10 babies, but ut sounded like it hahaha... chicken babies everywhere, so their food actually lives with them xD oh and they have soooooooo many dogs! thai ppl in general... its crazy i have never seen so many dogs in my life. abour 2-5 per family. i think they shld start castrating them or the dogs will take over thailand! 0.0 haha... uhm so pai tun (i always wanna write pad thai xD) and some other guy from the tribe cooked for us! deeeerrlicious! 4 different dishes yummyummy.
yeah and because we were so exhausted we went to bed early. bed is exaggerated though. i dont think the thing between me and the bamboo floor made any difference. but that wasnt the part that concerned me the most. nope! osh the insects!!! the whole fucking jungle was full of bugs and spiders and snakes and ewwwwwwwww and they were all so loud!! we had a mosquito net but still. i lay awake for like 2 hours, not moving an inch except for when i thought there was something in my ear hahaha.... terrible! i was so scared that i would wake up covered in those ugly little creatures. oh i also sprayed the whole room with antibrumm hahahaha just in case xD i fell asleep eventually, only to wake up
again at 5 in the morning, thanks to those 13 cocks making noise. but who needs sleep anyway, right? okay so we would wait til 7.30 (funny picture: we were gamimg bubble explode and samschtigjass in a bamboo room, hoping the time
til breakfast would go by faster). so after breakfast the plan said we'd go on a "walk" to the waterfall. uhmm... so we "walked" thru mud, climbed that stupid mountain (i thought i was dying) and we sweat like we never sweat before. and our jungle-man or whatever he was, walked up that mountain while making a some kinda bamboo weapon with his knife. we were unbelievably happy that we hadnt chosen the 3.5 hr "walk"! omg... but yeah the waterfall was awesome! beautiful place and really cool water with those small fish innit that eat ur dead skin off your feet hahaa! tickle tickle :D free massage. so we went on by car, heading to the golden triangle where we had lunch first and then took a look at the opium museum :D the golden triangle is one of asia's two opium-producing areas and it overlaps the mountains of four countries (thailand, burma, vietnam and laos). most of the world's heroin came from there up to the early 21st century, but now afghanistan became the world's largest producer. the museum showed tons of different pipes and accessories such as the opium cushion, an opium mat to lie on etc. it also showed the process of producing heroin (pretty exact, i think i'm gonna try that at home haha). so anyway, enough of the drugs :) cause we still had two stops before going home: the white temple and the hot springs. the white temple is simply beautiful, but also funny cause the paintings inside are very time-critical (bush and bin laden on a space rocket, michael jackson, matrix etc). the artist was there too! so we had a small talk, shook hands and then had a look at his paintings in the gallery. very nice! u gitta look it up on google, the temple is rly beautiful, especially when the sun is shining on it *sparkle* :) okay last stop hot springs :) jzt a nice bath for our poor feet, some ice cream and watching old tribe women boil their eggs in the hot spring hahahaha :)
yeah that's about it about those two days. (that was 2 days ago by the way;)) we bought books from an irish man here haha.. he's fun :D and in the evening met chris rudolf yesterday, hung around at the sunday night market and i had a 30min neck massage for exactly 2.-. jesus that woman massaged the crap outta me with her ellbows! i mean yeah i might be a pussy but that REALLY HURT man!! yeah anyway, today i cut my hair for 10.-, aaron and dad played tennis in the morning and we'll all go play some golf in the afternoon (i'm pretty sure i'm gonna suck at it! wish me luck!)
Donnerstag, 14. Juli 2011
day 1 & 2
okayyyy hi everyone! and sorry for the long wait! we've just been sooo busy and still a little jet lagged. and since i didnt bring my ipad i wasnt very keen to write everything on my iphone haha... anyways. we had 2 very good flights, first zh-bangkok then bangkok- chiang mai. we're now staying at the baan thai resort, only 5 min from the airport. it's very thai style here, everything out of dark wood and we have to take off our shoes at the entrance. both rooms have a small balcony with a view on the beautiful garden (with pool and pavillon). you can check the internet for pictures if you like ;)
so our first day wasnt very busy. we had breakfast at the galare guesthouse, where dad introduced us to pai tun, our guide for the next couple days. they've known each other for yeeeeeeears and therefore pai tun's taking us to places in and around chiang mai for free.
in the evening we got a nice 1hr massage, had yummy dinner and took a walk through the night bazaar.
this morning pai tun picked us up and brought us to the orchid and butterfly farm. well, everyone has seen orchids before, ao that wasnt toooo spectacular. but the butterflies were beautiful! and there were some biig ones too! about as big as both are hands together. after that we went to the snake farm. we walked past two cages with each a cute birdie inside. i was like "oh they keep birds here too! cute. (pause) oh shit, there's a snake in the corner. oh NOOOO biiiird!!! the bird is food! i wanna free the bird! " yeah very sad. but snakes need food too right? cute food :/ and yeah there was a show too, with pythons and cobras... pretty cool.
after that we went to see the elephants at the elephant camp. wow! we watched them bathing, fed them and saw the show. omfg this show was amazing! the elephants played soccer, basket ball, they painted (nice paintings!!) and they seemed to have fun and even make jokes. faaaaantastic! uhmmm... oh yeah we also went so see and TOUCH tigers at the tiger kingdom. big business, says pai tun. really cool though. we made lots of pictures and i think our guide was a big fan of me hahahaha
so yeah... sorry to make it so short. but its rly no fun typing everything on my iphone.. sorry sorry ://
so our first day wasnt very busy. we had breakfast at the galare guesthouse, where dad introduced us to pai tun, our guide for the next couple days. they've known each other for yeeeeeeears and therefore pai tun's taking us to places in and around chiang mai for free.
in the evening we got a nice 1hr massage, had yummy dinner and took a walk through the night bazaar.
this morning pai tun picked us up and brought us to the orchid and butterfly farm. well, everyone has seen orchids before, ao that wasnt toooo spectacular. but the butterflies were beautiful! and there were some biig ones too! about as big as both are hands together. after that we went to the snake farm. we walked past two cages with each a cute birdie inside. i was like "oh they keep birds here too! cute. (pause) oh shit, there's a snake in the corner. oh NOOOO biiiird!!! the bird is food! i wanna free the bird! " yeah very sad. but snakes need food too right? cute food :/ and yeah there was a show too, with pythons and cobras... pretty cool.
after that we went to see the elephants at the elephant camp. wow! we watched them bathing, fed them and saw the show. omfg this show was amazing! the elephants played soccer, basket ball, they painted (nice paintings!!) and they seemed to have fun and even make jokes. faaaaantastic! uhmmm... oh yeah we also went so see and TOUCH tigers at the tiger kingdom. big business, says pai tun. really cool though. we made lots of pictures and i think our guide was a big fan of me hahahaha
so yeah... sorry to make it so short. but its rly no fun typing everything on my iphone.. sorry sorry ://
Dienstag, 5. Juli 2011
grand canyon
blog draft 7
so today was the last day in vegas cause tonight we´ll have to get up at 3.30 am in order to be at the airport in time and catch the flight that takes us back to miami.
we got up at 7 today, been picked up at 7.55 (the driver was in a really bad mood) and brought to the helicopter airport. so we went on a helicopter ride to the grand canyon! our pilot - a nice blonde lady - did an awesome job! she gave us information about the history of the grand canyon and the area around it. then we landed in the middle of it, just above the colorado river. there we had a little picknick with sandwiches, chips, cookies and drinks. very cool! she said she´d been doing this for six years now and she seems to have fun flying a helicopter three times a day, 7 days a week :D
so then we headed back to the airport and back to the hotel eventually :)
so today was the last day in vegas cause tonight we´ll have to get up at 3.30 am in order to be at the airport in time and catch the flight that takes us back to miami.
we got up at 7 today, been picked up at 7.55 (the driver was in a really bad mood) and brought to the helicopter airport. so we went on a helicopter ride to the grand canyon! our pilot - a nice blonde lady - did an awesome job! she gave us information about the history of the grand canyon and the area around it. then we landed in the middle of it, just above the colorado river. there we had a little picknick with sandwiches, chips, cookies and drinks. very cool! she said she´d been doing this for six years now and she seems to have fun flying a helicopter three times a day, 7 days a week :D
so then we headed back to the airport and back to the hotel eventually :)
day 2 in vegas
blog draft 6
helloo day 2 in vegas! aaron and i hit the mall today, wow it´s really big, we almost got lost in search of a starbucks! i spent most of the time in forever21 again, i just friggin love this shop! hihi we went to another mall then, just across the street from our hotel, to get a football shirt for serguei. we did find one (it has his own long story) and i found the most amazing shoes haha! i hope there´s soon gonna be an occasion where i can wear them.. theyr´re awesome :) i wrote another load of postcards (i hope some of you already got theirs!) and we soon went back to the hotel to get ready for the show "la reve". and wow it was brilliant! the stage was a circle so there weren´t any bad seats. we sat in the front row, right at the pool and therefore "splash zone" haha seaworld revival? :D no no, no wales this time. but awesome acrobatics and synchronised swimming. beeeautiful! it´s really worth watching it, after all it was rated las vegas´ best show in 2011.
i hope i still get to see a cirque du soleil show sometime in the future ;)
helloo day 2 in vegas! aaron and i hit the mall today, wow it´s really big, we almost got lost in search of a starbucks! i spent most of the time in forever21 again, i just friggin love this shop! hihi we went to another mall then, just across the street from our hotel, to get a football shirt for serguei. we did find one (it has his own long story) and i found the most amazing shoes haha! i hope there´s soon gonna be an occasion where i can wear them.. theyr´re awesome :) i wrote another load of postcards (i hope some of you already got theirs!) and we soon went back to the hotel to get ready for the show "la reve". and wow it was brilliant! the stage was a circle so there weren´t any bad seats. we sat in the front row, right at the pool and therefore "splash zone" haha seaworld revival? :D no no, no wales this time. but awesome acrobatics and synchronised swimming. beeeautiful! it´s really worth watching it, after all it was rated las vegas´ best show in 2011.
i hope i still get to see a cirque du soleil show sometime in the future ;)
Back in Las Vegas!
wow i´m so sorry it took me so long to make a new post. i had written it 2 days ago, but my ipad just didnt wanna connect with the wifi. so i had to connect my iphone with an external keyboard and type it all in again. so i´ll post yesterday´s and today´s post as well in an hour or so. have fun reading!
oh yes, we´re back in las vegas! we checked in at the cosmopolitan, which is a brand new and supercool hotel just next to all the other fancy hotels such as the belaggio, ceasers palace, luxor, excalibur and so on. so apparently they dont have check-in times here in vegas, so you get your room whenever there´s one available (after all they have around 6000 guests here). you cant be sure to even get the room you booked! so we got an upgrade and our room is fantastic! we even have a living room with a writing desk and a big couch, a small kitchen, and awesome bathroom and a balcony with a sensational view on the water show! the suckie thing is, that we (aaron and me) are not even allowed so SIT in a bar or anything similar to a bar, just because they´re selling alcohol there and we´re not 21 yet. as if we would crash the bar, get drunk and dance around naked. ugh! and there i was, thinking i was old enough for the world, but noooo vegas in my face! haha shit. i still got to drink that very good wine at the fancy restaurant we went for dinner. if they had asked me about my age, it wouldnt have worked, cause whenever we were in a nice restaurant i was so paranoid and and nervous of getting caught, i´d blurt out my real age before even thinking). so yipppiiee, i must have looked like a 21 year old. i think they mistook me for dad´s wife though. but who cares, the wine was awesome! haha. oh and the filet. the FILET! omfg it was sooooo goooooood! i dare say it was even better than in that steakhouse in L.A. wow! everything excellent, even the service. they brought me a black napkin because i was wearing black pants and they didnt want the white napkin to ruin my black pants hahahhhaa... so unnescessary, but still kinda cool. so yeah after dinner we checked out prada, louis vuitton, fendi, gucci etc.....didnt buy anything though. 600 bucks for a shabby scarf is a bit too expensive for my taste. and who needs a scarf in vegas anyway, the heat is burning doooown everything.
back in our hotel room w watched the belaggio water show and the biiiiiig firework afterwards. aaron and i later discovered that he sucks hard at playing monopoly :D tomorrow the others are probably going gambling and aaron and i will take a cap to vegas´ largest mall and shop til we drop, whoop whooop! oh and tomorrow night we´ll go watch a show called "la reve" which is a wannabe cirque du soleil show with water and so on.. the real cirque du soleil shows are all sold out. what. a. surprise. (...) oooh and maybe you know tomorrow´s the 4th of july! big party america. if i could only have a single drink to celebreate with you, dear country. buuuut anyways, me go sleep now, me tired and me tell you tmw how the show was;) and sorry, picture uploading still doesnt work. we gotta live without it! (i gave it up a while ago anyway..haha)
so good night to ya all!
oh yes, we´re back in las vegas! we checked in at the cosmopolitan, which is a brand new and supercool hotel just next to all the other fancy hotels such as the belaggio, ceasers palace, luxor, excalibur and so on. so apparently they dont have check-in times here in vegas, so you get your room whenever there´s one available (after all they have around 6000 guests here). you cant be sure to even get the room you booked! so we got an upgrade and our room is fantastic! we even have a living room with a writing desk and a big couch, a small kitchen, and awesome bathroom and a balcony with a sensational view on the water show! the suckie thing is, that we (aaron and me) are not even allowed so SIT in a bar or anything similar to a bar, just because they´re selling alcohol there and we´re not 21 yet. as if we would crash the bar, get drunk and dance around naked. ugh! and there i was, thinking i was old enough for the world, but noooo vegas in my face! haha shit. i still got to drink that very good wine at the fancy restaurant we went for dinner. if they had asked me about my age, it wouldnt have worked, cause whenever we were in a nice restaurant i was so paranoid and and nervous of getting caught, i´d blurt out my real age before even thinking). so yipppiiee, i must have looked like a 21 year old. i think they mistook me for dad´s wife though. but who cares, the wine was awesome! haha. oh and the filet. the FILET! omfg it was sooooo goooooood! i dare say it was even better than in that steakhouse in L.A. wow! everything excellent, even the service. they brought me a black napkin because i was wearing black pants and they didnt want the white napkin to ruin my black pants hahahhhaa... so unnescessary, but still kinda cool. so yeah after dinner we checked out prada, louis vuitton, fendi, gucci etc.....didnt buy anything though. 600 bucks for a shabby scarf is a bit too expensive for my taste. and who needs a scarf in vegas anyway, the heat is burning doooown everything.
back in our hotel room w watched the belaggio water show and the biiiiiig firework afterwards. aaron and i later discovered that he sucks hard at playing monopoly :D tomorrow the others are probably going gambling and aaron and i will take a cap to vegas´ largest mall and shop til we drop, whoop whooop! oh and tomorrow night we´ll go watch a show called "la reve" which is a wannabe cirque du soleil show with water and so on.. the real cirque du soleil shows are all sold out. what. a. surprise. (...) oooh and maybe you know tomorrow´s the 4th of july! big party america. if i could only have a single drink to celebreate with you, dear country. buuuut anyways, me go sleep now, me tired and me tell you tmw how the show was;) and sorry, picture uploading still doesnt work. we gotta live without it! (i gave it up a while ago anyway..haha)
so good night to ya all!
Samstag, 2. Juli 2011
Venice Beach
today we went to venice beach! yeeeahhhh i so fell in love with this place! from what i've heard i expected it to be a place where the rich and beautful show off their fake boobs hahaaha... but instead there were street musicians, artists, body builders, dancers, acrobats and other really crazy people! i loved the mulitcultural and colorful atmosphere... shows going on everywhere, food, small stores, jewellery stands, and so on.. oh and the musicians were so talented! i'll upload a video on facebook, hope it works.
i could have spent hours there, just walking along the promenade or sitting on a bench and watching all those different people.
the show with the acrobats was awesome. they would jump over 5 people standing in a row! crraaaaazy..and they were funny while at the same time making political statements. cool!
i would totally go to this place again if we weren't heading back to las vegas tomorrow morning. so make sure u visit venice beach when you're in california!
i could have spent hours there, just walking along the promenade or sitting on a bench and watching all those different people.
the show with the acrobats was awesome. they would jump over 5 people standing in a row! crraaaaazy..and they were funny while at the same time making political statements. cool!
i would totally go to this place again if we weren't heading back to las vegas tomorrow morning. so make sure u visit venice beach when you're in california!
Freitag, 1. Juli 2011
Beverly Hills and Hollywood
whoop whooop! tooooday we visited beverly hills and hollywood! where the rich and beautiful are (we blended in perfectly.......)!
so rodeo drive was just like i imagined it. crazy expensive stores, crazy fast cars (bugattis, bentleys, ...), fake boobs and facelifts! hahhaa... we even had lunch at a very beautiful place and it was still cheaper than dining in switzerland. it was delicious btw :P so after rodeo drive (i didnt see any superstar, i think they're hiding from us) we went to hollywood, going for an afternoon stroll on the walk of fame and having a look at the kodiak theatre (that's where the oscars take place). sooo, no stars again, but lots of fake michael jacksons :)
we even managed to save our rented car from being towed away, pheeewww that was close! so after that we drove through the neighbourhoods on the beverly hills, so we could see the houses and cars of the famous and rich. everyone seemed to have a castle to themselves, a couple cars too, of course. i wouldnt say no to such a nice big house and some nice fast cars tbh :D
oh and after taking a shower we actually wanted to go for a small dinner and watch the firework from disneyland (as if we didnt see it every night). so anyway, we went to some steakhouse not far from our hotel. our car got parked by a park boy (.....), we were shown our table, i wouldnt even have to move my own chair, our servant michael did that for me (Y). then he put the napkin on our laps and we got fresh iced water (as always here in america. it's free and u get free refills after every zip! omg i think my glass wasnt even half full ever! they ran directly to our table when we drank from our water). the raw meat (HUGE! pieces of meat) were presented to us as well as the side dishes (hand picked gigantic potato, somehow special red onions etc). michael explained e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g to us. nothing was impossible.
nonna let her napkin fall off her lap once and before she could pick it up, michael almost ran to pick it up and give her a perfectly new one. also did they exchange our knives for new ones because we used the first set to put butter on the warm bacon bread. wouldnt have been nescessary though hahaaha michael answered everything with "wonderful", "excellent", "yes of course, i'll be back in a minute". perfect service! i'm deeply impressed.
so i'm very happy now i'm not whaling around and that i had the best filet mignon in my whole life (and i've had many!).
one thing that's really interesting, is that as soon as a restaurant has a high niveau, it's closer to european culture than american. i'm a little proud of being european :D haha!
i just watched the news btw and apparently summer break has started today and everyone's on the streets. that's why it took us so long to get home. and omg i dont wanna imagine the traffic we'll be in on our way to vegas the day after tomorrow. i bet there's tons of people wanting to celebrate the 4th of july in vegas! oooohhh nooo....
ps: i still cant upload pictures and my online gallery doesnt seem to work either... sorry :/
so rodeo drive was just like i imagined it. crazy expensive stores, crazy fast cars (bugattis, bentleys, ...), fake boobs and facelifts! hahhaa... we even had lunch at a very beautiful place and it was still cheaper than dining in switzerland. it was delicious btw :P so after rodeo drive (i didnt see any superstar, i think they're hiding from us) we went to hollywood, going for an afternoon stroll on the walk of fame and having a look at the kodiak theatre (that's where the oscars take place). sooo, no stars again, but lots of fake michael jacksons :)
we even managed to save our rented car from being towed away, pheeewww that was close! so after that we drove through the neighbourhoods on the beverly hills, so we could see the houses and cars of the famous and rich. everyone seemed to have a castle to themselves, a couple cars too, of course. i wouldnt say no to such a nice big house and some nice fast cars tbh :D
oh and after taking a shower we actually wanted to go for a small dinner and watch the firework from disneyland (as if we didnt see it every night). so anyway, we went to some steakhouse not far from our hotel. our car got parked by a park boy (.....), we were shown our table, i wouldnt even have to move my own chair, our servant michael did that for me (Y). then he put the napkin on our laps and we got fresh iced water (as always here in america. it's free and u get free refills after every zip! omg i think my glass wasnt even half full ever! they ran directly to our table when we drank from our water). the raw meat (HUGE! pieces of meat) were presented to us as well as the side dishes (hand picked gigantic potato, somehow special red onions etc). michael explained e.v.e.r.y.t.h.i.n.g to us. nothing was impossible.
nonna let her napkin fall off her lap once and before she could pick it up, michael almost ran to pick it up and give her a perfectly new one. also did they exchange our knives for new ones because we used the first set to put butter on the warm bacon bread. wouldnt have been nescessary though hahaaha michael answered everything with "wonderful", "excellent", "yes of course, i'll be back in a minute". perfect service! i'm deeply impressed.
so i'm very happy now i'm not whaling around and that i had the best filet mignon in my whole life (and i've had many!).
one thing that's really interesting, is that as soon as a restaurant has a high niveau, it's closer to european culture than american. i'm a little proud of being european :D haha!
i just watched the news btw and apparently summer break has started today and everyone's on the streets. that's why it took us so long to get home. and omg i dont wanna imagine the traffic we'll be in on our way to vegas the day after tomorrow. i bet there's tons of people wanting to celebrate the 4th of july in vegas! oooohhh nooo....
ps: i still cant upload pictures and my online gallery doesnt seem to work either... sorry :/
Donnerstag, 30. Juni 2011
Los Angeles
soooo... we found another hampton inn in garden grove, Los Angeles, right next to Disneyland, which means that we have a firework every night. we're staying 4 nights here, get a little rest before we gotta go back to vegas.
today we hung at the pool, emptied a mall and had dinner at a faaaaancy japanese restaurant. i finally got to eat my beloved eel sushi! how i missed that... last time was in london! but i guess i wont have to wait long til i'll have my eel again ;) nd after that we went to see queen mary quickly. our original plan was to eat on the ship, but its booked out til i dunno, sometime in the future haha anyways, i dont really have much to tell you guys... maybe about tmw then, cause we're visiting hollywood and beverly hills tomorrow. rodeo drive, i'm coming! (i'm pretty sure i wont be even able to afford a coffee there, but who cares, it's rodeo drive baby! :D
only 7 days to go and we'll be back in lovely switzerland for a couple days. i'm missing everyone soooo much... my baby brother, my kitty cat, my family, my awesome boyfriend and all me loved ones :(
ps: tesoro u sucka, if ure even reading this haha... i think ure way too cool for those t-shirts xD sorry bout that :P miss you! L
pps: i cant upload pictues somehow... dunno why. i'll try to make an album in my online gallery. i'll post it if it worked ;)
today we hung at the pool, emptied a mall and had dinner at a faaaaancy japanese restaurant. i finally got to eat my beloved eel sushi! how i missed that... last time was in london! but i guess i wont have to wait long til i'll have my eel again ;) nd after that we went to see queen mary quickly. our original plan was to eat on the ship, but its booked out til i dunno, sometime in the future haha anyways, i dont really have much to tell you guys... maybe about tmw then, cause we're visiting hollywood and beverly hills tomorrow. rodeo drive, i'm coming! (i'm pretty sure i wont be even able to afford a coffee there, but who cares, it's rodeo drive baby! :D
only 7 days to go and we'll be back in lovely switzerland for a couple days. i'm missing everyone soooo much... my baby brother, my kitty cat, my family, my awesome boyfriend and all me loved ones :(
ps: tesoro u sucka, if ure even reading this haha... i think ure way too cool for those t-shirts xD sorry bout that :P miss you! L
pps: i cant upload pictues somehow... dunno why. i'll try to make an album in my online gallery. i'll post it if it worked ;)
Montag, 27. Juni 2011
San Francisco - la gente esta muy loca!
(before we arrived in san francisco we were at the sequoia national park. fuuull of sequoias, some sort of mammut trees. not much to talk about thought)
yayyy yesterday we finally arrived in san francisco! thanks to our slightly confused navigation lisa we kinda landed in the gangsta ghettos of san franny. but wow! all those different people! oh and so many homeless people :/ so it took us an hour to find a hotel in a more civilized place where we would stay to nights. so now we're at the holiday inn.
this morning we headed for the city center, deciding on a guided bus tour on one of those huge red buses. a very good idea indeed :D we had a hella fun guide called, i dunno, it sounded like sth with daniel and a lot of "s" in it. anyways, since i was the only one who was actually listening to what this "i'm your....handsome guy today;)" said, i'll tell u some (fun) facts about san francisco:
1. san francisco is known for his earthquakes. in 1906 the first of two major earthquakes took place. it caused several fires that lasted for 3,5 days. it finally stopped cause there was nothing else left to burn.
2. pier 39 is the most popular and most visited place in california. it has more visitors than disneyland!
3. after the second earthquake in 1989 the somehow had a sealion invasion. the san franciscans did NOT like that, cause the sealions made noise and stank. however, they tried to get them away by a.) putting lots of loudspeakers between sleeping sealions and on 1, 2, 3, go! playing crazy loud music and b.) trying to scare them away with high pressure water jets.
the latter one was only a nice massage for the sealions' soft skin though. so neither of it worked, but san francisco had a fun time! and the sealions are still there :D
4. the world's first volunteer firefighter comes from, guess what, san francisco! her name was lillie hitchcock coit and as a little girl, she was saved from a fire, after which she became obsessed with firefighters. she wanted to be one of them to, so she wrote a letter to every station, asking how she could become a firefighter. they all answered, and they all said the same: "we appreciate ur effort, but unfortunately you're a woman."
i checked wikipedia and it said that she was also smoking cigars and wearing trousers long before it was socially acceptable. awesome!
5. 40% of the city is built on land fill. now who's scared of earthquakes? cause your house is gonna sink right into the ground.
6. what's all the fuss about the golden gate bridge? yeah, it's red and all... B BUT the bay bridge is exactly 6 months older, but no one really cares about that.
7. the city has about 800'000 inhabitants. on weekends, the number doubles because of all the visitors.
8. the marriott hotel opened one day before the 1989 earthquake. yep. everything kapuut (Y)
9. the starlight club at the union square was recently rated the no. 1 place to propose to someone.
10. the fantastic building of the hibernia bank is only used for bank robbery scenes in movies.
11. also there is a district (i forgot its name), which is very "unchild-friendly", but very "dog-friendly". there are more dogs registrated than kids. we counted three pet hospitals and three doggy day care centers. and there's even a waiting list to that doggy day care thing! and when it's your turn, you have to bring your dog so he could meet the other dogs, in case he wouldnt "blend in with their clientel". OMFG haha!
12. in the same district our guide showed us some houses which are older than a certain age and therefore must be kept in perfect shape. so if you live in one of those houses you have to paint it aaaaaaaall the time. if you dont, you'll get a ticket from a cop. and you'll get one every single day. that'll add up to some pretty high sum if you take your time.
we also drove over the golden gate bridge (it's really not that special) to a small town called sausalita. it's known to be the most expensice place to live in the united states. the cheapest house there has 2 rooms and a bathroom (i didnt hear anything about a kitchen) and it costs only (!!) 2.5 million dollars. this is a little low though, because of the depression. so i guess u wanna know the the prize of the most expensive house too, huh? it's 78 million dollars! wow. and it's on sale, so you can still get it! :D
there is also a song about sausalita and i'm sure you know it too: sitting on the dock of the bay by ottis redding. oh yeah! oh and janice joplin lived there too.
after our bus tours we saw greg the bush man. he carries around a couple branches with him, hides behind them and suddenly jumps in front of people to scare them. he actually lives from the money people give him because they're so relieved they're still alive after his attack. he's been doing that bush-scare-people-thing for 28 years now. before that he worked as a chef at a nice restaurant for 17 years. what a career :P
hmmmm... what else? oh yeah, yesterday was the pride parade, so the city is full of gays. right next to the golden gate bridge there are two tunnels with rainbows on it (a gay pride thing, kinda ironic that it's on tunnels.........).
okay so i'm reeeeaaally tired and i gotta be ready for all the shopping tomorrow. so i'll say goodnight for you, just like our tour guide used to:
"Now daaaarliiiings, don't talk to strangers, that's my job."
haha! i'm off :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0yy-6qHkD0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
yayyy yesterday we finally arrived in san francisco! thanks to our slightly confused navigation lisa we kinda landed in the gangsta ghettos of san franny. but wow! all those different people! oh and so many homeless people :/ so it took us an hour to find a hotel in a more civilized place where we would stay to nights. so now we're at the holiday inn.
this morning we headed for the city center, deciding on a guided bus tour on one of those huge red buses. a very good idea indeed :D we had a hella fun guide called, i dunno, it sounded like sth with daniel and a lot of "s" in it. anyways, since i was the only one who was actually listening to what this "i'm your....handsome guy today;)" said, i'll tell u some (fun) facts about san francisco:
1. san francisco is known for his earthquakes. in 1906 the first of two major earthquakes took place. it caused several fires that lasted for 3,5 days. it finally stopped cause there was nothing else left to burn.
2. pier 39 is the most popular and most visited place in california. it has more visitors than disneyland!
3. after the second earthquake in 1989 the somehow had a sealion invasion. the san franciscans did NOT like that, cause the sealions made noise and stank. however, they tried to get them away by a.) putting lots of loudspeakers between sleeping sealions and on 1, 2, 3, go! playing crazy loud music and b.) trying to scare them away with high pressure water jets.
the latter one was only a nice massage for the sealions' soft skin though. so neither of it worked, but san francisco had a fun time! and the sealions are still there :D
4. the world's first volunteer firefighter comes from, guess what, san francisco! her name was lillie hitchcock coit and as a little girl, she was saved from a fire, after which she became obsessed with firefighters. she wanted to be one of them to, so she wrote a letter to every station, asking how she could become a firefighter. they all answered, and they all said the same: "we appreciate ur effort, but unfortunately you're a woman."
i checked wikipedia and it said that she was also smoking cigars and wearing trousers long before it was socially acceptable. awesome!
5. 40% of the city is built on land fill. now who's scared of earthquakes? cause your house is gonna sink right into the ground.
6. what's all the fuss about the golden gate bridge? yeah, it's red and all... B BUT the bay bridge is exactly 6 months older, but no one really cares about that.
7. the city has about 800'000 inhabitants. on weekends, the number doubles because of all the visitors.
8. the marriott hotel opened one day before the 1989 earthquake. yep. everything kapuut (Y)
9. the starlight club at the union square was recently rated the no. 1 place to propose to someone.
10. the fantastic building of the hibernia bank is only used for bank robbery scenes in movies.
11. also there is a district (i forgot its name), which is very "unchild-friendly", but very "dog-friendly". there are more dogs registrated than kids. we counted three pet hospitals and three doggy day care centers. and there's even a waiting list to that doggy day care thing! and when it's your turn, you have to bring your dog so he could meet the other dogs, in case he wouldnt "blend in with their clientel". OMFG haha!
12. in the same district our guide showed us some houses which are older than a certain age and therefore must be kept in perfect shape. so if you live in one of those houses you have to paint it aaaaaaaall the time. if you dont, you'll get a ticket from a cop. and you'll get one every single day. that'll add up to some pretty high sum if you take your time.
we also drove over the golden gate bridge (it's really not that special) to a small town called sausalita. it's known to be the most expensice place to live in the united states. the cheapest house there has 2 rooms and a bathroom (i didnt hear anything about a kitchen) and it costs only (!!) 2.5 million dollars. this is a little low though, because of the depression. so i guess u wanna know the the prize of the most expensive house too, huh? it's 78 million dollars! wow. and it's on sale, so you can still get it! :D
there is also a song about sausalita and i'm sure you know it too: sitting on the dock of the bay by ottis redding. oh yeah! oh and janice joplin lived there too.
after our bus tours we saw greg the bush man. he carries around a couple branches with him, hides behind them and suddenly jumps in front of people to scare them. he actually lives from the money people give him because they're so relieved they're still alive after his attack. he's been doing that bush-scare-people-thing for 28 years now. before that he worked as a chef at a nice restaurant for 17 years. what a career :P
hmmmm... what else? oh yeah, yesterday was the pride parade, so the city is full of gays. right next to the golden gate bridge there are two tunnels with rainbows on it (a gay pride thing, kinda ironic that it's on tunnels.........).
okay so i'm reeeeaaally tired and i gotta be ready for all the shopping tomorrow. so i'll say goodnight for you, just like our tour guide used to:
"Now daaaarliiiings, don't talk to strangers, that's my job."
haha! i'm off :)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0yy-6qHkD0&feature=youtube_gdata_player
Samstag, 25. Juni 2011
Las Vegas Baby!
so after the very last time at walmart in merritt island we drove off to orlando. there we went to the florida mall just like last wednesday after seaworld. dad went through an eye exam and got perception - and sunglasses, both ray ban. we're a ray ban family now haha
since i bought everything nescessary to survive in the desert (ipad 2. sponsored by my awesome godfather, and a digicam) we were ready to go. dad wanted to show us oldtown orlando to pass the time til we wld go to the airport. lisa, our navigation system girl, got everything mixed up a little so we ended up somewhere completely different than planned. but it was a veeeery nice place. everything looked like the perfect and idyllic american dream there. big white or olive colored houses with columns and porches with rocking chairs on it. typically south! and of course us flags all around us. i think they're all preparing for july 4th.
we had a painfully boring 5hr flight to vegas (except for when they showed that movie with jennifer aniston and adam sandler), but when we arrived we were thrown into the vegas way of life immediately :D playing slots and commercials eeeeeeeverywhere.
our hotel was the hampton inn just opposite that pyramide hotel called luxor (fancy thing!!) and wow those beeeeeeds. we slept like babies! or stones.
now we're already on our way through dusty desert. moving direction death valley (what a lovely name). so just like its name says, everything seems pretty dead here. it cant be more dead. the absolute highlight so far: the dips! gotta love 'em hihi oh and just a moment ago there should have been a huge lake....it's dried out.
we drove past something like a village (there were 3 houses) where apparently some random guy decorated a hill with pots. i wonder of what use this is to him. oh and a house on wheeeeeels! how cool is that :D
two hours later.
first real stop at a supposedly "historical ruin". it's a wall. a single wall. and i can smell the loo from 5m.
another hour later.
we just hung around the earth's lowest point (still in death valley, that thing is huuuuuge. bigger than our little switzerland). so we're 282m below sealevel and there's some kinda salt lake, which is also dried out so u can actually walk on salt. and it's so effin hot here! far more than 40 degrees celsius! my hair is burning and the wind feels like ur holding a hair dryer directly into ur face.
a couple miles further, again in the middle of nowhere, there's even a golf course. it's called "devil's golf course" hahahaha... you wont believe me when i say there's actually someone playing :D i hope his golf (!!) balls dont evapourate before he could play.
since i bought everything nescessary to survive in the desert (ipad 2. sponsored by my awesome godfather, and a digicam) we were ready to go. dad wanted to show us oldtown orlando to pass the time til we wld go to the airport. lisa, our navigation system girl, got everything mixed up a little so we ended up somewhere completely different than planned. but it was a veeeery nice place. everything looked like the perfect and idyllic american dream there. big white or olive colored houses with columns and porches with rocking chairs on it. typically south! and of course us flags all around us. i think they're all preparing for july 4th.
we had a painfully boring 5hr flight to vegas (except for when they showed that movie with jennifer aniston and adam sandler), but when we arrived we were thrown into the vegas way of life immediately :D playing slots and commercials eeeeeeeverywhere.
our hotel was the hampton inn just opposite that pyramide hotel called luxor (fancy thing!!) and wow those beeeeeeds. we slept like babies! or stones.
now we're already on our way through dusty desert. moving direction death valley (what a lovely name). so just like its name says, everything seems pretty dead here. it cant be more dead. the absolute highlight so far: the dips! gotta love 'em hihi oh and just a moment ago there should have been a huge lake....it's dried out.
we drove past something like a village (there were 3 houses) where apparently some random guy decorated a hill with pots. i wonder of what use this is to him. oh and a house on wheeeeeels! how cool is that :D
two hours later.
first real stop at a supposedly "historical ruin". it's a wall. a single wall. and i can smell the loo from 5m.
another hour later.
we just hung around the earth's lowest point (still in death valley, that thing is huuuuuge. bigger than our little switzerland). so we're 282m below sealevel and there's some kinda salt lake, which is also dried out so u can actually walk on salt. and it's so effin hot here! far more than 40 degrees celsius! my hair is burning and the wind feels like ur holding a hair dryer directly into ur face.
a couple miles further, again in the middle of nowhere, there's even a golf course. it's called "devil's golf course" hahahaha... you wont believe me when i say there's actually someone playing :D i hope his golf (!!) balls dont evapourate before he could play.
Mittwoch, 22. Juni 2011
Seaworld
oohhhh yes baby today we visited seaworld! and it was amaaaazing. we went early in the morning for we had about 1hr to get there (merritt island - orlando). when we were there we started with the fastest and newest roller coaster. uuuhhhh crazy shit! ure not even in an upright position, but hanging there like chicken wings! looping after looping! but coooool hihi
so after that we ran to the next one which wasnt as smooth as the first one. i think we all have minor brain damage hahaa! so after the roller coasters we went to the shows. the first one was a shamu/killer whale show. wow i love those animals! and they were H.U.G.E! like srsly gigantic. so cool! we were a little disappointed that they wldnt do stunts with the trainers. apparently there has been an accident a couple years ago, where a young woman died because that killer whale "threw" her too high or too far or sth so she must have broken quite everything. but the show was amazing still.
so after that we went to see the sea lions and seals (yassss i can tell the difference! :D) which was fun too, but it was quite the same as it was 8 years ago. but the dolphin show! blue horizon it was called and there were not only dolphins but a vulture (geier), which was crazy big btw, flying over our heads, beautiful parrots and other funny birds, all doing a great job :) and also acrobats in trapezes! but u'll see everything on the videos if i manage to upload them.
so after all those shows we watched dolphins in their cove (ppl could touch them!) and mantas, which we also stroke (slimyyy things! but they like it :)).
we went to the florida mall in orlando after seaworld to check if i could get an ipad 2 there. and i did! i'm a proud owner of an ipad 2 now! it's soooo cool. oh and aaron and i bought ray ban sun glasses. finally some good sunglasses! (fu h&m!)
so i'm pretty tired now. gotta jump into our swimming pool quickly to cool down a little. we had sth like 40°C today! i thought i'd collapse any moment. but yeah, i know, i should stop complaining since it's raining like shit in switzerland, right? :D
all in all this was an aaaawesome day!
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so after that we ran to the next one which wasnt as smooth as the first one. i think we all have minor brain damage hahaa! so after the roller coasters we went to the shows. the first one was a shamu/killer whale show. wow i love those animals! and they were H.U.G.E! like srsly gigantic. so cool! we were a little disappointed that they wldnt do stunts with the trainers. apparently there has been an accident a couple years ago, where a young woman died because that killer whale "threw" her too high or too far or sth so she must have broken quite everything. but the show was amazing still.
so after that we went to see the sea lions and seals (yassss i can tell the difference! :D) which was fun too, but it was quite the same as it was 8 years ago. but the dolphin show! blue horizon it was called and there were not only dolphins but a vulture (geier), which was crazy big btw, flying over our heads, beautiful parrots and other funny birds, all doing a great job :) and also acrobats in trapezes! but u'll see everything on the videos if i manage to upload them.
so after all those shows we watched dolphins in their cove (ppl could touch them!) and mantas, which we also stroke (slimyyy things! but they like it :)).
we went to the florida mall in orlando after seaworld to check if i could get an ipad 2 there. and i did! i'm a proud owner of an ipad 2 now! it's soooo cool. oh and aaron and i bought ray ban sun glasses. finally some good sunglasses! (fu h&m!)
so i'm pretty tired now. gotta jump into our swimming pool quickly to cool down a little. we had sth like 40°C today! i thought i'd collapse any moment. but yeah, i know, i should stop complaining since it's raining like shit in switzerland, right? :D
all in all this was an aaaawesome day!
flamingos!
soaking wet. and we smell like dead fish!
cinnamon churros i love you!
rollercoaster number 1
Dienstag, 21. Juni 2011
Kennedy Space Center
So yesterday we visited the Kennedy Space Center. you get lots of information about current NASA projects, the crew and the job of an astronaut. but they don't tell u in person. no, they let u sit in freeeeeezin cold theatres (imax) and u watch a film for about 20min, then go to the next room where you get to see another film. everything was sooo patriotic! U.S. flags everywhere, proud soldiers blahblah..
oh and i'm still veeeeery sceptic about that moon landing thing. i mean, seriously, the claim to have been on the moon 50 yrs ago, but today, after 50 years of progress in technology, they really dont make it up there again? hard to believe! so yeah, maybe someone cruised a little around the moon, in its sphere or sth, but i dont think they really walked on it. so basically what they said in the videos was sth like "yeah, we've been on the moon, why go again?" (maybe because u suck at it?) and "yeeeahhh we'd like to go on mars next" (sure *cough*). Whatever.
so after our guided bus tour - i've never felt so much like a dumb tourist - we actually went to a launch simulator. that was fun! it made noise and vibrated like a real rocket and they put u in an almost vertical position, just like the astronauts who have to hang around like that for 3hrs before they get to flyyyyyyyy thru space. oh yeah the pictures from the inside of that rocket thing were cool :D i mean u can put floating peanut butter on a floating pancake hahah :D
apart from the videos and the launch simulator there was not much else to see. i mean yeah, exhibitions and models, but you know me... ;) i, personally, was fascinated by a very very cute squirell eating popcorn (see pic). so i asked myself where it got the popcorn from and saw a little boy with an XXL box of popcorn with an XXL coke next to it. no wonder they all look like balloons over here! the whole park contained about 10 stands where you can get snacks. there was exactly 1 that offered a fruit cup.
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uhhhhh, das nenn ich es auto *.*
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i love squirrels hihi
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so back to nature! on our bus tour we saw an eagle's nest as big as a king size bed! so you could easily lie in there and take a nap (how cool is that..??). oh and there are pelicans, other weird birds and aligator all around the place for it's a NASA protected wildlife whatever area... pretty cool though.
ummm yeah, today was a lazy day. i was at the mall real quickly, ran through victoria's secret (SAAAAALE), came out with a biiiiiig shopping bag. oh yes baby. so now we're here again, gettin a nice sun tan (as far as it is possible for me to get a tan.......swiss cheese loli says hi! oh btw, my 80 yr old neighbour told me i looked "awfully white" thanks ma'm!)
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oh, dinner time! byeee
oh and i'm still veeeeery sceptic about that moon landing thing. i mean, seriously, the claim to have been on the moon 50 yrs ago, but today, after 50 years of progress in technology, they really dont make it up there again? hard to believe! so yeah, maybe someone cruised a little around the moon, in its sphere or sth, but i dont think they really walked on it. so basically what they said in the videos was sth like "yeah, we've been on the moon, why go again?" (maybe because u suck at it?) and "yeeeahhh we'd like to go on mars next" (sure *cough*). Whatever.
so after our guided bus tour - i've never felt so much like a dumb tourist - we actually went to a launch simulator. that was fun! it made noise and vibrated like a real rocket and they put u in an almost vertical position, just like the astronauts who have to hang around like that for 3hrs before they get to flyyyyyyyy thru space. oh yeah the pictures from the inside of that rocket thing were cool :D i mean u can put floating peanut butter on a floating pancake hahah :D
apart from the videos and the launch simulator there was not much else to see. i mean yeah, exhibitions and models, but you know me... ;) i, personally, was fascinated by a very very cute squirell eating popcorn (see pic). so i asked myself where it got the popcorn from and saw a little boy with an XXL box of popcorn with an XXL coke next to it. no wonder they all look like balloons over here! the whole park contained about 10 stands where you can get snacks. there was exactly 1 that offered a fruit cup.
uhhhhh, das nenn ich es auto *.*
i love squirrels hihi 
ummm yeah, today was a lazy day. i was at the mall real quickly, ran through victoria's secret (SAAAAALE), came out with a biiiiiig shopping bag. oh yes baby. so now we're here again, gettin a nice sun tan (as far as it is possible for me to get a tan.......swiss cheese loli says hi! oh btw, my 80 yr old neighbour told me i looked "awfully white" thanks ma'm!)
Sonntag, 19. Juni 2011
our home and neighbourhood
ich han ja no gar kei bildli vom huus und de umgebig posted! und so far sind alli föteli mit em iphone gfötelet, also sorry fürd qualität... here you go:
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das nenn ich es nachbarshuus!
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euse igang...
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2 vo 4 schlafzimmer :D
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s'esse im restaurant isch mega fein gsi. hüt isch übrigens father's day gsi! vätere hend dementsprechend gratis bier becho, und eusi jungs hend sich ziit mit "heisse ärsch" (vode servierfraue) fotografiere vertriebe (...)
wow and so many fat people!! und überhaupt kei esskultur. die chömed da ine, schmeissed sich an tisch, stopfed burger ine (obwohl's doch feine lobster und shrimps gäbti) und chum sinds fertig ränneds wieder devo. wobi ränne ja schwer isch bi dem gwicht.....
ou und ich glaub hüt gits wieder warnings. gester isch überall im internet und tv dwarnig usegange vo wäge thunder storms bi eus und tornado in orlando. recht heftig, so vo wäge mr sell dinne sii, weg vode feischter, strong buildings etc..
walmart: too big to handle. ich bin det inne wienes verlornigs huehn :(
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ääähhhh wo zerst 0.0
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bruchsch natürlich für de 4. juli!
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mr. potato head! total turn off.
mwaaa i've always wanted such a mailbox :D 
das nenn ich es nachbarshuus!
bridge over banana river
euse igang... 
2 vo 4 schlafzimmer :D
s'esse im restaurant isch mega fein gsi. hüt isch übrigens father's day gsi! vätere hend dementsprechend gratis bier becho, und eusi jungs hend sich ziit mit "heisse ärsch" (vode servierfraue) fotografiere vertriebe (...)
wow and so many fat people!! und überhaupt kei esskultur. die chömed da ine, schmeissed sich an tisch, stopfed burger ine (obwohl's doch feine lobster und shrimps gäbti) und chum sinds fertig ränneds wieder devo. wobi ränne ja schwer isch bi dem gwicht.....
ou und ich glaub hüt gits wieder warnings. gester isch überall im internet und tv dwarnig usegange vo wäge thunder storms bi eus und tornado in orlando. recht heftig, so vo wäge mr sell dinne sii, weg vode feischter, strong buildings etc..
walmart: too big to handle. ich bin det inne wienes verlornigs huehn :(
täsche, schueh und liibli gester kauft :) 
bruchsch natürlich für de 4. juli!
mr. potato head! total turn off. lazy day on meritt island..? NO!
hüt hemmer usegfunde dass de cocoa beach pier sini 10 dollar ned wert isch und uf kein fall chan als attraktion duregah. also simmer bitz go bädele und denn chli umetuckeret. per zuefall hemmer denn sones boat rental hüsli gfunde, sind here und gooo........... JETSKI fahre!!! boaaahhhh es isch soooooo cool! mr isch wörkli mega schnell und es fätzt rächt uf de wasseroberflächi, also mr muess sich na rächt guet fescht hebe :D und sgeilste isch gsi, womer die andere jetskiier hend gseh ahalt ufem wasser hemmer au aghalte und denn sind grad 5 meter vor eus eifach 3 delfin usem wasser cho... also de ganzi meerabschnitt isch voller delfin (und huere komisch, mega wiit ufegumpende fisch) gsi! awesome! han nonie so nöch wildi delfin gseh.. und sie hends mega chillt obwohl mir meeeega umecruised sind... yeah, that was great!
und hüt zabig gahts denn ines feins restaurant called sunset (es ragt is wasser und mr gseht de sunneuntergang)...
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that's a manog from our neighbour's huuuuuuuuge (gigantic) mango tree! and they're delicious! a hundred times better than what u buy in switzerland! i'm gonna steal that tree hihi
und hüt zabig gahts denn ines feins restaurant called sunset (es ragt is wasser und mr gseht de sunneuntergang)...
Samstag, 18. Juni 2011
Shopping Day
oiiii guuuuuet gschlafe hüt! bis am halbi 8i :D de jet lag isch also noni voll überwunde. d'nonna hets ganz versaut und isch gester ufem sofa ipennt. han sie denn ganz sanft welle wecke aber sie het nur ihri nase grümpft und gföhrlichi grüsch gmacht......
yummy breakfast with toast and bacon! after that we quickly checked out the beach - beautiful! an then we went to the mall....... hello paradiiiiise :D but i only bought a bag, a shirt, shorts, shoes and lots of OPI nail polish (vero, they didnt have ur colours, i'll look for them somewhere else!). i still need to find an apple store so i can get my ipad 2! hope there's one in merritt island. sooo, not many news today, me go swim swim and sunbathing now, and maybe get a second sunburn hahahaa...
i hope you (vero & moni) partied hard last night! we passed matura!! yasssssssssss *buttwiggle*
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yummy breakfast with toast and bacon! after that we quickly checked out the beach - beautiful! an then we went to the mall....... hello paradiiiiise :D but i only bought a bag, a shirt, shorts, shoes and lots of OPI nail polish (vero, they didnt have ur colours, i'll look for them somewhere else!). i still need to find an apple store so i can get my ipad 2! hope there's one in merritt island. sooo, not many news today, me go swim swim and sunbathing now, and maybe get a second sunburn hahahaa...
i hope you (vero & moni) partied hard last night! we passed matura!! yasssssssssss *buttwiggle*
Freitag, 17. Juni 2011
oh man, so typisch...
okay so here comes the fun part! nonna forbid me to mention this, but I'm doing it anyway. It's not so bad after all...haha
on our way to our new home dad asked me to read the information sheet he got from the house owners... and asked me if it said sth about a key. I read: "Den Hausschlüssel finden Sie beiligend zu diesem Brief." - "Beiligend??" - "Wart ich lueg namal. (pause) jap, beiligend!" -"scheisse, scheisse, scheisse..... verdammt....aahhhhhh shit......scheisse!!" -" was?? " - "ich han kein schlüssel!" - "ou haha! ja da huus bringemer scho irgendwie uuf."
zum's churz säge: what would a trip to America be without a night at the aladdin motel?? :D hahahhaha.... but at least we found a place to sleep. at 6 in the morning the home owners called us and said there was also a way to get in the house with a code. THANK GOD! so we're there, garage door is open, second key found... everyone is happy. yeah that'd be almost too perfect to be true.. nonno forgot his rucksack at the motel! yay! no problem, right? hahahaa..
well anyway, we finally made it and unpacked our stuff.. hungry as we were, we went to Denny's to have a biiiiiiiiig american breakfast! We ordered Lumbjack Slam, New Fit Slam (dad and nonna on a diet?!) and French Toast Slam (yummyy...). Aaron had a Moon Over My Hammy hahahahahahahaha... oh and there was a faaaat black lady - i call her big mama - and she was like: "oh yeaahhhh.... I'm soo proud of your table!" and made some really weird big-mama-shakes-her-booty-move :D awesome :D
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on our way to our new home dad asked me to read the information sheet he got from the house owners... and asked me if it said sth about a key. I read: "Den Hausschlüssel finden Sie beiligend zu diesem Brief." - "Beiligend??" - "Wart ich lueg namal. (pause) jap, beiligend!" -"scheisse, scheisse, scheisse..... verdammt....aahhhhhh shit......scheisse!!" -" was?? " - "ich han kein schlüssel!" - "ou haha! ja da huus bringemer scho irgendwie uuf."
zum's churz säge: what would a trip to America be without a night at the aladdin motel?? :D hahahhaha.... but at least we found a place to sleep. at 6 in the morning the home owners called us and said there was also a way to get in the house with a code. THANK GOD! so we're there, garage door is open, second key found... everyone is happy. yeah that'd be almost too perfect to be true.. nonno forgot his rucksack at the motel! yay! no problem, right? hahahaa..
well anyway, we finally made it and unpacked our stuff.. hungry as we were, we went to Denny's to have a biiiiiiiiig american breakfast! We ordered Lumbjack Slam, New Fit Slam (dad and nonna on a diet?!) and French Toast Slam (yummyy...). Aaron had a Moon Over My Hammy hahahahahahahaha... oh and there was a faaaat black lady - i call her big mama - and she was like: "oh yeaahhhh.... I'm soo proud of your table!" and made some really weird big-mama-shakes-her-booty-move :D awesome :D
Our neighbourhood is actually pretty cute! It's called riverside and has pretty houses with swimming pools, palm trees and perfect lawns :)
around the corner you find drive through pharmacies, burger restaurants, gentlemen's clubs, bible camps, all sorts of churches and last but not least: a gun shop! (I'll bring you all a nice little gun as a present, okaaaaaay??)
Serguei, this is for you. Here you can buttwiggle til u drop!
Florida Facts
Okay für die wo jetzt rein gar nix über Florida wüssed.. here you go:
It's the perfect place to get to know the "american way of life". Sun, beaches, optimism, fast money and happiness :D The Sunshine State!!
Florida is about half as large as Germany and one of the most popular travel destinations. the blue-green sea is just as much a natural attraction as wild aligators and pelicans. oh and mangroves!! who doesnt love mangroves, right? (remember the shrimp farming presentation in geo?? :D)
Florida was found by the Spanish Ponce de Léon (pirates of the caribbean ;)). In 1763 Spain traded Florida for Cuba just to undo that exactly 20 years later. It's very multicultural..but mostly populated by Nicaraguans, Salvadorians and Cubans, not to mention french-speaking Haitians :D
It's the perfect place to get to know the "american way of life". Sun, beaches, optimism, fast money and happiness :D The Sunshine State!!
Florida is about half as large as Germany and one of the most popular travel destinations. the blue-green sea is just as much a natural attraction as wild aligators and pelicans. oh and mangroves!! who doesnt love mangroves, right? (remember the shrimp farming presentation in geo?? :D)
Florida was found by the Spanish Ponce de Léon (pirates of the caribbean ;)). In 1763 Spain traded Florida for Cuba just to undo that exactly 20 years later. It's very multicultural..but mostly populated by Nicaraguans, Salvadorians and Cubans, not to mention french-speaking Haitians :D
The flight
Okay so on the flight I wrote everything in my little diary I got as a birthday present from kathrin! (thanks again :))...We've been on the plan for five hours now and I think we still have about five hours left. I'm seated next to an elderly Swiss man with residence in America.
Anyway, after this flight we'll have another 300km to drive ahead of us. I'm really looking forward to seeing the house in Cocoa Beach, which will be our home for the next 8 days. I still remember a few things from when I was there as a little girl.
- 4 hrs later -
wow I've watched 4 and a half movies, played battleship (I won!) and played tetris til level 9 (I'm so proud of me, it was really difficult... haha). Just got an extra sandwich, müsli bar and biberli for I was the only one on that plan who was still hungry after that awesome pizza ai 4 formaggi :D
I'm really trying to fight tiredness with coffee and entertaining myself, but the monotone noise of the machine makes me incredibly sleepy.
the last good coffee I'll get... mwaaaa :(And then there's my neighbour who just wouldnt talk a single word with me! But anywaaaaaaays, I could really need a massage right now....(hi serguei!).
After 12 sudokus and a perfect landing we're finally on the roaaaaaad! 8.20 pm and it's crazy hot here!! i sweat like a pig -.- and traffic is soooo slow here... i'm glad our chevrolet has air conditioning!
"choose one." - "any car?" - "yup."
5pm american time.
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