This past weekend was really fun! I taught my neighbors how to play Cribbage after we built two Cribbage boards. It took us all afternoon but we had a great time. I have only played the game once before, but now I have won two times in row!!!! I really like the game.

: this is a slightly nicer version of what we built.

"That rounds up the usual aspects" of my daily life in Germany.

           On Sunday we did something I have always wanted to do!!!!! We went to a fox hunt.

       If you have ever seen the movie "Mary Poppins" you will know the scene when cartoon characters are riding horses and are with their hunting hounds while they chase a fox.

          That is exactly what we got to see. The start was at the home of a family friend. The house is actually a small castle or fortress. Its really cool. I actually have been able to stay there on my previous trips to Europe.
   
           The grounds outside of the moat were covered with riders and their horses. Everyone was dressed up in the English style riding outfits, and they looked very professional.

           Then, there was one woman surrounded by thirty or so hunting dogs. The animals were milling around in a large group and from time to time the lady would throw them a treat. This caused a lot of jumping and scrambling over each other. There was one dog who was digging a hole, I have never actually seen a dog do that before and it was quite picturesque. But aside from this they were all very well trained!

           When they took off everyone trotted by in pairs of two and at the end of this prosession came the dogs in one huge pack. It was awesome!

      The week of Investor (the game) is over, thank goodness!!! I didn't really understand any of the material for my german is very limited, but I was in charge of the creative aspect of our group.
   
      I got to design to Flyers for our product, I put together the powerpoint, and I filmed the movie/commercial we were required to make. Our movie is going onto the school website because it was in English!!!!!! Unfortunately, it is not up yet.

(This picture to the left is my school.)

      It started raining on Monday of last week and hasn't stopped yet!! I have never seen so much rain in my life!! The rain isn't even the good kind, it doesn't rain hard enough to be awesome and there is to much of it to just ignore. Now I can see why everything in Germany is covered in moss.

      This past Wednesday was a national holiday for the reunion of East and West Germany. So instead of having school, we got to go to the zoo. I took a friend and we ran around for three hours. It is a very nice zoo with tons of trees and walkways. In fact, it is the nicest zoo I have ever been to.

     There is one part where you can pet fish!!!! You know the kind of huge, gray fish that are in Canyon Ferry Lake, well they were in a shallow tank and when you put you had in they would swim up to you. When I rubbed them, they pushed up against my hand and wiggled. It was sooo funny!

      The fish were not stingrays. I think they are called carp. But they are the ugliest, most boring fish I have ever seen in real life. (Meaning I have seen uglier fish in pictures). They look a lot like huge gray goldfish.

Flossy Nossy Vanilla Philip Vacation.