The Chit Chat Chit Chat Thread

Figgy1

Figgy1

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Oh my gosh. What an exciting day for dd, her team, and us crazy parents. There were 17 teams actually. The announcer kept announcing teams and there’s hadn’t gotten announced. When they got to 10, we all started looking at each other. Then 9, then8, then 7, 6. When he got to 5 and they still were not called we held our breaths. Four got called and it wasn’t them. All the other teams clear the stage and only the top 3 are left. Remember that team from Tom’s River, NJ that had beaten them twice? Yep, they were one of the 3. Well the announcer says there was a tie for second. Then he announces first and it was not Toms River and not dd’s. They actually tied for 2nd. They lost first by only .09. We were so proud of them. It was their first time at this competition and it was the first season of cheer for many of the girls. Here are some pics. In the photo with the 3 groups, her team is on the left. The middle team got first. So cheer season is now over, except for The Summit at Disney. That is next weekend.
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Congrats!
 
Songbird76

Songbird76

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Saturday Niwanthi and Marc were both off, and the kids obviously didn't have school, so we went to Walkenreid monastery. I love mountains and trees, and I love old castles and cathedrals and such, so this is right up my alley. Prepare for many many pictures of things that will probably bore anyone but me.
How nice of them to have an arial view of the whole complex, since there was nowhere to get that view for a visitor!
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Her husband, Marc, pretending he's pushing over the wall.
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MOXOMUMD

MOXOMUMD

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21stamps said:
Oh my gosh! That’s hilarious and horrible!
Although I will say that cortisone shots hurt like bloody heck. I had one in my wrist a few month ago. OUCH. I’m still putting off surgery and just putting up with pain and shots until I actually find the time to schedule it/deal with it. The stupid thing is already torn, so it can’t get any worse.
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I had a set of three cortisone shots in my hip area last fall. Didn't help at all.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
That is AWESOME!! Congratulations! She must be so pumped! And Disney....YAY!!!
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Oh her team isn't going to Disney. The US Finals is the final competition for most cheer teams that earned a bid by getting top 3 in a competition during the regular season. They have them in 6 regions around the country. The Summit is a competition that you specifically try for during the season and need to qualify as well for. Her team is a mini team. They are between 5 and 8 years old. They are too young for Summit. I meant that the Summit competition is the official end of cheerleading season because there are teams that still have one more competition. The Youth team from dd's gym actually qualified for Summit and they leave Thursday.
 
MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
Ok, so we spent the weekend in Germany visiting a friend of mine. She's from Sri Lanka and met her husband when he went there for work once. Niwanthi and I met at the Dutch Language school. We have a group of friends from that school and we all married Dutch men and moved here, and had families. So Niwanthi and her husband moved to Germany about 2 years ago and I hadn't seen her since, and I really missed her. I'm sad that we only had basically 2 days there with her. My husband didn't want to drive down on the Wednesday night after work...it's a 4 hour drive there without stops. So we drove over on Thursday and got there in the early afternoon and she had to take her kids to music lessons, so we didn't have time to go anywhere that day, Friday the poor girl ended up working more than 12 hours. She manages a vacation park there and they had gotten a huge shipment of couches for all of the cabins. 94 couches that needed to be removed and then the new ones moved in. So she didn't get home until almost 8 p.m....glad I was there to make dinner so she didn't have to do it when she got home!! Her husband was home around 3 or so, so we went hiking a few minutes from their house. We basically made a big circle....we followed a stream up to the edge of the town and climbed this big hill. From the top, you look one way and you can see the whole area down below. You turn around the other way and you can see where the border sat between East and West Germany. I didn't see the watch tower...I don't know if it still exists, but you could see the line where the wall was, and you can see the roofs of the houses from the town just across that line in the East German part. When they opened the border, people from that town flooded into Bad Sachsa to get jobs and homes. And these homes are all really big because several generations would live in one house. My friend's neighbors have 3 different families living there....a man with his new wife, his son and the son's family, and then I think she said it was a daughter and her family. Anyway, pictures:
The view from the top of the hill:

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Facing the other direction. You can't see the wall line in this picture. But it's basically in a line from the windmill to the right of center, and then that clump of trees to the left of that, and all the way across:
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The area is known for that white stone you see there in the first picture. It's used to make plaster, and apparently all the houses in the area have these rocks in their walls. My friend's husband said you can't really remodel because the walls are like....dry wall over a wooden frame with rocks in between and they are sturdy as they are, but as soon as you break into the wall, the structure loses its integrety. You don't know what you'll find behind each wall, so you can redecorate, but not rebuild. Here's the big kiln where the stone was baked.
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The kids climbed all over the place.
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There was a bunker in the wooded area, but I didn't get a picture. Niwanthi's oldest came running out of the trees shouting "Daddy, come look!!" and I was a bit afraid of what an 11 year old boy found worthy of this kind of excitement. I was expecting maybe a snake or something. But it was a bunker that Marc said was from WWII for ammunition. I tried to google it and there WAS a picture that looked like it could be it, and it said it was now repurposed as a
refuge for bats.
Just a little way down the path from there is the Priest hole or priest cave?
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On the other side of the path is the pond:
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And then you follow the path around and end up at the bottom of the cliff from where we had the first view.
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Thanks for sharing these beautiful pictures! Glad you had a fun trip. The kids looked like they had a blast!
 

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