Kellinghusen, Germany - 1st August 2009
By: babyamy
Have you ever heard of Wacken? When you look it up at a map, you'll find out that Wacken is a small village in Schleswig-Holstein, the state in the north of Germany. But the people in the area where I am now have something else in mind when they hear the word Wacken. They think of people dressed in black, loud music liters of bear and a village in the state of emergency.
Why?
Well, every first weekend in August about 70.000 people come to Wacken to visit the world's largest Heavy Metal festival, the Wacken Open Air. It started 20 years ago with 6 bands and 800 visitors on a paddock outside of Wacken. Today the people come from all over the world and the tickets for the festival next year are already nearly sold out now.
Here is a photo from the whole festival area, in the upper left corner you can see the village Wacken:
Wacken
The local newspaper published a special about "Wacken" and we decided to read it. You can see the German Rockstar Doro Pesch who is singing the official festival hymn "We are the metalheads".
Katrin has never been to the festival, but knows a lot of people who are there nearly every year. She prefers reading the articles in the newspaper.
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Posted Aug 1, 2009, 7:05 pm
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Kellinghusen, Germany - 4th August 2009
By: babyamy
Big Bird is travelling home today, but before he leaves, we decided to spend some time in the garden. At first we had a look at the blackberries and Katrin decided that she has to pick the black ones later today and freeze them. When she has enough, she will turn them into nice marmelade.
Then we walked over to the apple tree. But instead of apples we discovered a new TV. Mr Bananas had already arrived yesterday, but he has decided to spend the night in the apple tree. He told us about his adventures in Canada and I could tell about mine, too.
Then it was finally time to say goodbye to Big Bird. It was nice to meet you although it was just for a short period of time.
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Posted Aug 4, 2009, 12:23 pm
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Schwerin, Germany - 19th August 2009
By: babyamy
We've been to a big party, the "Silberhochzeit" ("silver wedding"), Katrin's boyfriend's parents. They are married for 25 years now and celebrated it with a huge party.
Here is a photo from the flowers which were the decoration on the table:
This was the funniest present: a selfmade cactus!
But after a long night with a lot of dancing Mr Bananas and I were really hungry and decided to have the rest of the cakes for breakfast. The chocolate one was really good.
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Posted Aug 24, 2009, 8:06 pm
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Schwerin Castle, Schwerin - 21st August 2009
By: babyamy
This is the most beautiful building of Schwerin: the castle. It's situated on a little island and inside is a museum and the gouvernment of the state Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.
We decided to walk around the castle to visit parts of the famous "Burggarten" (castle garden). Suddenly I saw this old part of the building and wanted to know what it is. A look a a sign told me that behind this wall is the church of the castle. It's really beautiful inside but we weren't allowed to go there.
We saw a lot of nice flowers, but the sun was burning really hot and I decided to take a rest in the tree a in quiet part of the garden.
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Posted Aug 24, 2009, 8:17 pm
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Kellinghusen, Germany - 23rd August 2009
By: babyamy
We're finally back home and there was asurprise waiting for us: A new TV has arrived!
It's Hiro from China and he has been waiting for us for the last two days.
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Posted Aug 24, 2009, 8:51 pm
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garden, Germany - 26th August 2009
By: babyamy
Today was another nice and warm summer day and I wanted to spend some time in the garden. Katrin was crocheting and the moneys were climbing in the flowers and I decided to read for a while. Although it's a teen book, it was really suspenseful and I couldn't stop reading until the evening.
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Posted Aug 28, 2009, 12:42 pm
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Kellinghusen, Germany - 5th September 2009
By: babyamy
We had to be very strong these days. Katrin is travelling with her boyfriend and let us alone at home. But she didn't forget us, she sent us a postcard from Rome, Italy.
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Posted Sep 13, 2009, 7:33 pm Last edited Sep 13, 2009, 7:35 pm by babyamy
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Kellinghusen, Germany - 9th September 2009
By: babyamy
Today Katrin is coming back home from her Rome trip. We took care of all the letters and postcards which arrived during the last days. What may be inside these envelopes?
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Posted Sep 13, 2009, 7:38 pm
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Kellinghusen, Germany - 11th September 2009
By: babyamy
Now Katrin is back home for two days and she is really productive again. :P Look at all the letters she has already written. OK, one letter is a book she has sold via www.booklooker.de
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Posted Sep 13, 2009, 7:41 pm
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