Friday, July 31, 2009

Yesterday we climbed to the top of a high tower that overlooks Eibenstock. Cara almost died after climbing too many steps (this is Cara writing btw). Then we went to another tower but we didn´t climb it, we just drooled over the closed ice cream stand :( Today we went to a beautiful waterfall and Cara and Joni took too many photos and almost killed themselves...AGAIN. Next, we ate at a cool German restaurant (see pics). After that we said our goodbyes to Jessica and took her to the train station...boo hoo. Finally, we went and traveled the whole world (in miniature). Then Joni drove stick shift (something she doesn´t know how to do) and Cara almost died AGAIN! After all those near death experiences the past few days have been quite exciting.
Photo comments by Joni!

Cara's photography has reached a new low.
This was inside the amazing restaurant.

The outside of the restaurant. This was originally the way they burned wood to make it into charcoal, they set it up like this and burned it.

We strong people held up the Leaning Tower of Pisa, but only for a short while, so: NEWS FLASH: the Tower tipped over.
My torch burned out.
Seeing Jessica off at the train station, but this train wasn't actually her train...

This was the gorgeous waterfall we took 1,072 pics of. We climbed all around it, and then pushed Roland off the top so he is no more. It was NIFTY.
The tower in Eibenstock that overlooks the town.


Throwing peas (that were in Cara's camera case (that Willy gave her at the garden)) at each other. Actually, I (Joni) caught 3.

Thursday, July 30, 2009

Our adventures in Germany thus far...

Germany is pretty much amazing! We've now been in Germany for a week, and have until August 7.
Our iteneray was as follows:
Thursday July 23- July 26 was Otterbach Convention (also called Bergheim).
Monday July 27 We stayed at convention to help with clean up and tear down. We left and spent the night in a youth hostel in Rothenburg o.b.T. (ob der Tauber). This town was a walled city and pretty much beautiful. We have 1.072 pictures or so of it.
Tuesday July 28 we toured the town some more and then left for Heidi and Volker Werk's house in Eibenstock.
Wednesday July 29 we explored Eibenstock, rode in a bobsled up and down a hill, and went to a huge lake with many fun water activities.
Today, Thursday July 30, we were kind of lazy and went shopping and toured Eibenstock (on FOOT).

Our cuteness, but Cara doesn't like her sunburned nose.
.... sorry boys, 18 from now on, only men
....sorry girls, 18 from now on, only women

No words to describe the beautifulness.


The houses are all different pretty colors, and they all have window boxes with flowers.



Cara and I by the sign of Otterbach.




This is beautiful. According to Roland, this is the part of Germany where everything looks brown.





This picture is one of the most famous scenes in all of Germany!





This is some of the people at our hymn sing. The countries represented here are: Holland, Germany, Columbia, Great Britain, Madagascar, United States, and Australia.


This is the pic of most of the young kids that went on a walk together! In this picture alone, we have some kids from all of the same countries except Australia and Madagascar, and Mexico is represented instead.