girls night, birthday and thanksgiving...

I haven't been able to update in a while, so let me tell you about a few things I did over the last weeks.

Some weekends ago a few of my girlfriends and I went out to a restaurant for a late dinner.

It's a place called "Cheese" and that's what they serve. :-) The owner had given one of the girls a coupon so she could bring 10 girls and get the food cheaper. We ate a lot, talked a lot.. and unfortunately had to inhale a lot of smoke, since the place is called a smokers club.. 

Well, as you can see in the pics, we had a lot of fun!

Then I had my..26th... birthday on the 25th. So I invited some of my girlfriends and my parents over to my place and we had cake and just hung out for a while.

It was a great time and I really enjoyed having them. One of the boys I babysit came with his mom and of course he was the center of attention from then on, but I didn't mind. :-)

Friday we had the big Thanksgiving dinner ( or lunch) from the BC. We had lots of good food and a lot of fun hanging out.

good food

good men 

some more great ppl

and even more :-)

they are outside taking pictures..I am inside...so is the pie!!!!! haha

Today I watched one of the many kids I take care of. I took her to the movies and we watched a children's movie which was put together from different episodes of a TV show, so I knew most of it, but she didn't so it was a lot of fun. Afterwards we went to the christmas market which isn't as good as it used to be, but she got to ride the carrousel so that was nice for her at least.

Jess, how do we do it ???

The craziest things always happen to my lovely friend Jess and I, so saturday was a lot of fun! 

But let me tell you from the beginning:

I called Jess saturday morning and asked if she wanted to go out, so we made plans to go out for Coffee with another girl from the BC.

When I got to the school the other girl (sorry, I don't remember who it was :-( ) had already gone into town for something else, so Jess and I were trying to think about what we wanted to do.

First we thought about going to Ikea for free coffee, or going into town for one, or doing something totally different. We settled on the going to town and getting coffee thing and went to ask Mike if he wanted to join us. He was going to have a relaxed day and so decided to stay behind. For a joke I told him that we might end up doing something amazing, like finding a medieval-market or something like that. (we had been to one last semester and had an amazing day there, so I knew he would like that) He stayed behind anyway...

Jess and I got into the car and all of a sudan decided that we really wanted to take a road-trip.

So I called my dad and asked if he had any ideas. He told us to go to the zoo in dortmund and that sounded like fun and so we started going in that direction.

Then Jess remembered that she had a coupon for a free Starbucks coffee, and since there is one in Dortmund, we didn't go to the zoo, but there.

We got there and saw a couple of rides on the market-place. It looked like a small fair, not to big, so we went into Starbucks after looking around for a short time.

I LOVE ICED CHAI LATTES!! 

So, after we got done with our drinks we wanted to go to H&M to look for deals, but never got there. And then the most funny thing happened... 

The first thing we saw were some people sitting on a stand looking at other people SWORD FIGHTING!!!  I couldn't believe it, we did happen to be there during the Hanse Markt..which is: A MEDIEVAL-MARKET!!!!

hahaha, we could not stop laughing!!!!

We walked around for a couple of hours and it was so much fun! They had all sorts of animals, and a group playing old music and people baking bread in and old style way, and all sorts of other medieval-things!  It was great!

Jess and I just couldn't believe that we had found this, we keep running into fun things like this, whenever we decide to just hang out. :-) I love it!

Here are some pics to share the fun :-) :

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Later that evening I got to put my signature on two of the BC guys..don't ask, I though it was funny at the time...haha (they have my name on their wrists)