Glücklich Geburtstag to me!

its my birthday, im in germany, its my birthday!

i dont even know where to begin...

yesterday i had the stomach flu - that was swell. stephe had it friday, uncle rudolph on sunday, me on tuesday and so at this rate, my mom will be throwing up by tomorrow! splendid vacation!

sunday we travelled to liebenstadt to meet my great aunt getrude and great aunt christa for the first time. getrude looks just like my grandma before she lost weight. it was so hard to see them, reminding me of my grandma the whole time. it was a great visit (neither of them spoke english though) but it didnt seem to matter. anything we wanted to convey to each other can be done through facial expressions alone. ( speaking of facial expressions, miss scott, you should have seen mine when i read the post on the blog about the snoring... i will get you one day, just wait :) this was probably the first and the only time we will ever see them, so it was very hard leaving them. we only stayed about 2 hours at aunt getrudes and 1 hour at aunt christas. uncle rudolph wasnt feeling well and it was about 2 hours from worms. we also went to my late uncle karls house and had cake (imagine that, cake - germany? who would have though...) with his wife hildagarde. omg - she was the cutest little old lady i have ever seen before in my life (with the exception of the obvious, my own oma!). i can wait to post the pictures for you to see. as soon as i get back home i will (home = london). so the ride home was a rollar coaster ride through the winding mountains of germany. funny, i didnt remember buying a ticket for the ride... we are driving along the side of the mountain at 70-80 kph while it was raining and there are winding turns every 3 seconds. i thought my mum was going to have a stroke, seriously. ''sometimes cars fly off the mountain if they go fast enough'' - stephe
there are alot of quotes by stephe lately, me and my mum almost cry laughing at them!
stephe kept yelling at him and he would hold up his one hand and make a talking face with it at her saying ''oh, stephe, oh'' while keeping his other hand on the rollar coaster steering wheel from hell. i was even a little scared and if you know me and my driving, than you would understand how bad this was (especially in the back seat). but if you ever ask me infront of my 'unkle rudolph' i will tell you that it was good driving and there was no problems at all! i will stick up for him whenever needed!
that night my mum wanted to take a bath, so she asked stephe and stephe says ''oh no, no you cant take a bath. it is too late at night and the water running in the tub will wake up the neighbors.'' what? are you flippen kidding me? the water at night will.... good grief. we tried to reason with her then realized that we should just appease her and agree. but the loud flushing of the toilets wont wake the neighbors. seriously, this thing sounds like niagra falls... whatever.
ok, so mum takes a shower instead and the hot water tank makes an ear screaching sound instead, but that shouldnt wake the neighbors i imagine, right?
the next day we go to rudolphs daughter, petra, house for lunch. wait, did i say lunch? i meant 3 course meal. germans, well europeans, eat large lunches and small dinners. i have pictures dont worry. it was really great, his whole family it wonderful! except for the fact that stephe told everyone that i couldnt drown because i was too fat. this was right after she told petras husband, who cooked the meal, that he was a good cook and it showed (he is a larger jolly german man). after the drowning comment, i asked stephe since she is so skinny if that means that she isnt such a good cook?? did i mention petra and her husband dont speak english? funny thing, everyone got the joke anyway and was laughing!! oh well, we went and took a long walk throught the woods after lunch and came back to a 3 cake spread for dessert. ugh, i was still full.
that night we went to the irish pub and made plans with ryan to go to heidleburg the next morning. with plans made, we came home and took showers and then went to bed. i told my mum that i didnt think my stomach felt right. that was an understatement... i spent yesterday, literally the whole day, in bed. i feel much better today though, good thing because they took me and my mum to lunch at a rest. down by the rhine river. guess what we ordered? think- germany, german cuisine, havent gone out to eat yet since we have been here.... need a minute?



cheeseburgers. yep, we ordered a cheeseburger and these fried potatoes. it was so good! i think they were a little disapointed though. i would have ordered something else if i had the chance to go to a rest. a little earlier in the week i suppose and order the cheeseburger i had so been craving. but it was my birthday and that is what i wanted to eat. actually, there is a dinner of pretzels and champagne waiting for me at home - so i should go (i sent mom there already so we didnt get introuble for being out so late).
another quick quote ''if i wash this you can wear it on your finger'' - stephe
this was when we had some laundry to do and my mum wanted to wash her sweater but stephe said it was wool (it is cotten) and that it would shrink. dont get me wrong, stephe is a wonderful person, and is good to my uncle rudolph, im just not used to all these rules and regulations.