Hotel Celler Hof

... made homemade cranberry sauce which had an amazing zing to it. We had 3, 3.4kg turkies for about 14 people. Bread, stuffing, mashed potatoes, beans, corn, carrots, pickles, squash. Alvira made oreo cakes, Pam, Wendy and I made an apple crisp, Shawn bought a frozen apple pie and Manny brought a fruit salad for dessert with ice cream. Pam and I had to leave at the end to head ...

We headed to the Hamburg Hauptbahnhof to get tickets back to Braunshweig. We stopped in Hannover for 1 hour and we quickly walked through some of the shopping section. We were tired when we finally arrived so we hung out in my room for a while just relaxing. We hung out with all of the URI students in Weststadt and it was a lot of fun.

... Peas, Robbie Williams, Lady Gaga, a famous violinist, the youngest F1 champion who drove his car inside the hall and did a few doughnuts, John Cusack, and a famous director. The first contestant was a physics major and he could read a sentence that was repeated over and over on a rolling piece of paper spinning very fast (100 km/h I think?). He got 2 ot of the 3 sentences correct. Another guy used a backhoe to shoot baskets!! He was amazing. A trained guy in the sport of ...

... costume stores in Germany since Halloween isn't really a big event here.

Wendy and I also explored for the Staples on the Ring but it was a disappointment, we were hoping it would look exactly like it does at home. Oh well.

When I got back I went to the Michaelishof area for Denise's handball game with Soth and Shawn. Denise is Soth's German International Partnering Projekt (IPP ...

... some fun. We wrote our names down on index cards and then we were put on random teams for 15 mintue games. All the players on each winning team got a shinny ribbon and whoever collected the most ribbons won a prize. We didn't realize that the tournament lasted from 8:30pm -6am!!! So we left around 11. It was a lot of fun, but some of the Germans were very intense and I had no idea what they were telling me to do sometimes!

So I can't really remember much about Hannover besides that there was nothing to see, nothing to do, the weather was bad and the campsite was overpriced! Dont get me wrong, I'm sure its a lovely place with nice weather and during the summer when the gardens are open which is where Hanovers charm is supposed to be. Wasn't our cup of tea so we moved on rather quickly. Byebye Hanover....maybe next time!

A group of us decided to do a bit more traveling so we took the 45 minute train ride to Hannover for the day. Mason, Steven, Soth, Manny, Amir and I all met at the Hauptbahnhof and took the 12:20 train. We were afraid that it was going to rain but it managed to only sprinkle on us a few times. Hannover is much like Braunschweig but bigger. There is still an emphasis on history and maintaining the quiet aspect of a slow life. There were so many places to ...

... there was a short breakfast and then Wendy and I went to go pick up our Visa's. We are now officially allowed to be in Germany for 1 year! We hung around Friday night and baked wurst in onions, cauliflower and peppers and also made mashed potatoes, it was amazing!!

... and everything!

The fish was smoked and soo good, but we had to pick out a lot of the bones but it was excellent. We ate it on German bread with butter and of course beer. They had a dog and a huge pig in their back yard which was in the middle of the woods. Then they showed us where they store the fish and chop them up, eww! It was a pretty decent day all around.

Celle was a town that was founded in the early Renaissance. It is probably much older, but the Alstadt (the "old town", in Germany, usually a pedestrian area these days) had 1520-something painted on its oldest building. It is pronounced "tz-ell-uh". It was a town we chose to stay at because we were able to get to it by rail and it had busses to Bergen, and Bergen had a bus to Bergen-Belson Concentration Camp. Yes, it was rather tricky to get to Bergen ...