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MySmallWorldof4

MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
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.
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I take it that's not the team your older daughter is on then? So basically YOUR cheerleading season is over? So when is your Disney trip then? I thought when you said Disney Summit, that must be why you were going. But it's actually nice to get a Disney trip WITHOUT having to be at competitions and events....just do what you want to do.
 
MySmallWorldof4

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Songbird76 said:
I take it that's not the team your older daughter is on then? So basically YOUR cheerleading season is over? So when is your Disney trip then? I thought when you said Disney Summit, that must be why you were going. But it's actually nice to get a Disney trip WITHOUT having to be at competitions and events....just do what you want to do.
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Just littlest dd is on a cheer team. Yep her season is over. Our trip starts on the 17th!!!!!!:):):):) I actually booked purposely to be there a week after the Summit to avoid cheerleaders.;)
 
21stamps

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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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CONGRATULATIONS!!!! This is so neat! Successful weekend, I bet they are so proud!!!

MinnieM123 said:
Norwegian Cruise Line has a new, one billion dollar ship. It has a fun race track on two levels. :joyfull:


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This is true ship that I just tried to switch to, but it’s sold out for my dates. I was actually a bit sad that they replaced the ropes course with the cars though. I’ll hold judgement until I experience it for myself, but I anticipate a longer wait for the cars than the course, and I hope it doesn’t feel similar to any other race track. The idea is neat, just not sure if the views will be as great.
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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These photos are NOT boring at all!!!!! I love this stuff too! Keep ‘em coming!!!

I’m glad that you had a weekend with your friends. Looks like everyone had a fantastic time! :)
 
Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Interesting statue in this bunch of photos.;)
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Oh, is that the one without the head on Jesus? I have the description, but it's in German....
It's the Madonna...Chalkstone, around 1270, damaged and.....according to google translate, verwittert means worn/weathered.
On the tower houses? of the medieval monastery....something about the Madonna figure greeting visitors for over hundreds of years...I THINK that's what it says. Some of it is close enough to Dutch that I can kind of make it out, but I'm not positive. Like....ankommenden....aankomen in Dutch is "to arrive", and Tor is tower. Begrussen is to greet. So it has something to do with greeting visitors for hundreds of years or over 100 years.
This Walkenrieder Sitting madonna- another is placed in the Walkenrieder Kreuzgang- belongs to the oldest....google says "received" or "preserved" Cisterian Madonnas in Germany.
The deep devotion to God's mother through the Cisterians entspricht the medieval Maria devotion also outside the order. Google says entspricht is "To correspond to", but I think it is closer to "represents"? Well....that's as close as I can come to a translation for the sign between the German I took in high school, my Dutch which is similar to german, and Google for the few words that I've never seen before. AH!!! I think that it actually says that The deep devotion to Mary depicted by the Cisterians is also...echoed, for lack of a better word, by Medieval devotion to Mary outside the order. Well, that was kind of like pulling teeth, but we got there in the end, didn't we? Is there anyone with better German than mine who could confirm it?
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MySmallWorldof4

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Goofyernmost said:
I can't remember what year it was, but, it was in the 80's. We went to Virginia Beach for a vacation. When we got there we saw two things. The first was that there was hardly any beach there. It was shortly after a hurricane went through (again I don't remember which one) and the action of the water washed all the sand out to sea.

The second thing we saw were some giant pipes going from the beach out to the water and I assume ending at a ship out on the horizon. Visible, but, very small looking. What it was doing was vacuuming up sand from the ocean bottom and pumping it to the beach slowly building the beach back up to the size it should be. It was fascinating to watch. The sand, out of the sunlight, deep in the ocean was black when it hit the land, but, within two days, I'm guessing, the sun bleached out whatever was covering the sand and it became, for lack of a better thing to call it, beach color. I cannot imagine how much that must have cost to rebuild that beach. I sometimes wonder if any subsequent storms have made them start over?
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One thing that struck me about the sand, was the color of the sand. It wasn’t the white I am used to seeing. It had more of a light brown color and was more coarse. The hotel was near the big Neptune statue.
 
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Songbird76

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
Interesting statue in this bunch of photos.;)
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Or were you referring to the metal plate with Von Honstein on it? From the year 1570 something? I have no idea what it is, because there was no placard there to tell me and the carving is a bit worn and hard to read, not speaking latin. I know anno is year, but that's about all I know. :(
Ok....I went back and researched (Yes, I'm a nerd) and it looks like there's a V missing from the left side of the grave plate, so it's Volkmar Wolf, count of Von Hohnstein. Something to do with the Clettenburg family, as well. And now I need to add another destination to my list for the next time I visit Niwanthi, because the Von Hohnstein castle ruins are just a few miles away and look VERY cool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hohnstein_Castle
 
MySmallWorldof4

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StarWarsGirl said:
Okay, now I found a live wasp when Jasmine was trying to kill it...I yanked her off of that and got out the vacuum; by the time the vacuum was on, the wasp had disappeared.

I now lie in wait for it to come back...

Going to tell my parents that they need to do something about this. I don't need a bunch of vet bills because one of the cats got stung. And I certainly don't need to get stung either.
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I would like to know how they get into our house as well. There was one in my bathroom a few weeks ago. Oldest dd was in there and freaked. I ran to the garage and got the wasp spray and killed it. I hate using that noxious stuff, but sometimes there is no choice.
 
21stamps

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MySmallWorldof4 said:
One thing that struck me about the sand, was the color of the sand. It wasn’t the white I am used to seeing. It had more of a light brown color and was more course. The hotel was near the big Neptune statue.
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There’s a lot of rocks there too. We used to surf near the pier. One time I borrowed a friend’s brand new surf board.. paddled out., got a wave.. wiped out.. broke the board. Afterwards, I went and purchased a surf board..and it wasn’t even for myself. :(

There was an awesome restaurant in VA Beach called The Jewish Mother, one of my favorites ever.. casual, great food, you were encouraged to write on the tables.. just super neat place. I think it closed down a few years ago though..not sure if it reopened. It was near where you stayed, did you happen to see it?
 
MySmallWorldof4

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93boomer said:
Kill that sucker! Those things bite not sting!! We sprayed 4 under our deck before we came down. They each had started a nest. That is a lot for us this early.
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Yep they bite. My 2 oldest got bit. We had one of those Liitle Tykes swingsets. Oldest dd was on the swings when a bunch of wasps flew to her and bit her on the shoulder. She ran to the house screaming. Dh grabbed ds who was in the baby swing. Apparently they had made a next in the overhead tube. There was a small screw size hole. That was how we found out she was not allergic. Then a few years later, same swingset, at some point wasps had built a nest in the little play house. That was when ds got bit. I had enough. Threw out that swingset.
 

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