Our journey was very long, we took the car to Auckland, then we took a plane to Kuala Lumpur, then another plane to Frankfurt (that is in Germany), a train to Nuremberg and the car to Neunkirchen am Brand. Our grandma and grandpa were very happy to see us, it had been 3 or 4 years since they had seen us.
Journey
On the way to Auckland we saw something that looked like a satellite or a UFO - it actually was a helicopter.
The plane was pretty good because we got our own tv where we could watch movies or play games. The food was good but they had some weird things, too, like dried fish - waahh! The toilets were mini, and whenever you flushed it sounded like a vacuum.
When we stopped in Kuala Lumpur they had horizontal escalators, Tizi and I went round and round in circles on it. It was the middle of the night and still very hot. When we went back on the plane, mum got searched for the second time but not us.
Taran liked Kuala Lumpur best, because in Auckland and Frankfurt we only got 30 min free wifi, and in KL 3h free wifi. He didn't like that there was no way to charge his iPad on the plane, but there was a plug on the train.
The train was powered by electricity. Or seats were facing the front until the train changed direction. There were thousands of solar panels in fields and on roofs. We also saw massive wind turbines, they looked like mutated fans without the covers! They must be using a lot of power here in Germany to need that many!
In Nuremberg our aunt and uncle picked us up and drove us to our grandparent's house. On the way we saw hundreds and thousands of bikes - over half the population of Germany rides bikes - as well as lots of cars. Nuremberg has gargantuous city walls from the middle ages, and Neunkirchen has some, too.
Our first day
We arrived at lunchtime and Oma had lunch ready for us - sausages, yum! In the afternoon we went to the next town, called Dormitz. Our cousin Simon was a magician in their Circus Performance. We met up with him and his big brother Marius, who gave us a tour of their school. Mum was wrong, they do wear Crocs and they have unicycles, too! We sat in the very front row, the performance was quite good. It was all in German, everybody there speaks German, we didn't understand everything but most of it. We are getting better at speaking German, too. After the show we had dinner there, it was delicious! We went home soon after that and had a really good sleep.
The first weekend
The weather was pretty miserable, quite like our winter except there was no frost. Still, we found the most amazing ice cream place and destroyed our cones in seconds. Later our cousins came over and we exchanged presents - ours were lots of yummy sweets and some books etc. We gave them each a rugby ball, a cap and a t-shirt, also a Monopoly NZ Edition.
On Sunday the weather improved and we went to a cool playground. Later we visited our cousins at their house. We played cops and robbers, played with Lego and on their Nintendos.
Monday
Mum and Dad went shopping with us, we got new t-shirts and shoes. Later we visited our Oma Ilse, who also lives in Kerikeri. In Germany she stays in the basement of her old house (our uncle Stefan stays in the rest of the house). We are getting lots of yummy food and sweets everywhere - Mum is worried she will get too big from all this food (she did not let me write too fat)! Oma has the internet - yippieh!
On Wednesday is Taran's birthday, he will be 13 (...)
That's it for today! from Yasha
PS: The photos go in the wrong order, you need to look at them from the bottom - sorry!
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