next day, same location

Howdy,

This in gonna be the real short one, but I wonna try to catch some of the funny actions, comments and dialogues that basically happen every day. So here is some that happened staying with our fabulous host Pat:

- It was time for our laundry yesterday and Daniel didn't have much left for a chore ride. So he was wearing my bathing shorts, which revealed the usually covered, very white skinned upper thighs, a bare chest under an open cycling jacket and his cycling sunglasses: plenty of laughter and, of course, a good shot for the slide show.

- One of the chores was that I got a haircut, for several good reasons. It came out, as planned, quite short and nicely. Comments: 'Rejecting': "You look like an alien!" - 'Astonished': "...not old and wrinkled anymore." - 'Disappointed': "Too nice. You are not my travel teacher anymore." - 'Condescending': "Well, he looks better than before." - 'Sympathetic': "...like a little, cute schoolboy..."

...and after the haircut

- Later that afternoon David (reading) and I (newsletter writing) were listening to his birthday cd on the portable 'ghettoblaster'. The door opened, Carsten came in, unplugged it and started to take off. When we protested that we had listened to music and that he couldn't just take it away, he was totally surprised: "What? I didn't hear anything..."

- After diner we figured out that Anneken had returned to old behaviour and successfully avoided her turn in various tasks - three warm meals, shopping and laundry. So Ude started yelling through the house that Anneken better get there quickly to help with the diner clean up. Anneken's reply: "No!" - Ude: "What, why not??? - Anneken: "Because I am sitting on the toilett." By the time she came, we had left a bit of the clean-up for her and she just joined us watching the movie "Jerry McGuire". Pat ended up being the one when he came home.... - Guido took care of putting plates and silverware into the dishwasher and starting it. All went fine - until bubbles started to cover the kitchen floor. Guess he used the wrong liquid...

Guido.....

- We wanted to get up at 7 since friends' of Pat had invited us to use their surfboards and ocean kayaks! Most of us wanted to do nothing but sleep at 1 AM, but David - who joined Carsten and Guido to look at Pat's rifle collection - once again did his special way of listening to music. Here it is: Start the music at good volume, open doors and move over to a different part of the house.....and be very surprised if anybody objects!

Daniel, Ude and David before the first time

- Trabi had set his alarm and woke me up - we share a room here - "Andi, 7, time to get up". So I got up and found him sleeping ten minutes later. My turn to wake him up. With a voice expressing hurt feelings he responded: "Why do you wake me up? I am tired!"

- Ude's out of cigarettes and I forgot to buy her new ones. Writing this she started yelling through the house once again: "Andi, where are you?" Opening the door to the 'computer room' she wanted to say something when she saw my pack of cigarettes in my hand outstreched to her. We just started laughing and she left without saying a word.

Ude

Hope you had some smiles and laughter reading this, maybe even to warm your heart and soul......

Your Gran'pa

David after the first time