St. Louis

After Thanksgiving, on Friday, we went to St. Louis to visit my hosbrother and the whole family who met at his house in St. Louis! On Friday is the biggest shopping day with the best sales in the whole year. Of course David and I could not miss this big day. And so we went shopping in one of the biggests malls ins St. Louis. That was pretty cool! Then on Saturady morning all the other family members arrived in St. Louis. My other host brother and his pregnant wife from Rolla, Iowa and one of my hostsisters with her husband also from Rolla. That means with the exception of the one daughther who lifes in Wasinghton state, my host family was comlepte! That was pretty cool! And because my hostbrother from St. Louis works for Boeing there we went flying in one of the planes from the Boeing flightclub! That was very cool and my first time ever flying an aircraft! We went over whole St. Louis and it was pretty cool to see the whole city from the view of a bird!
After our flying experience we went home and watched together the Notre Dame foorball game. It was a pretty imporatnat one against USC. But they lost!
On sunday we went up the Arch! A pretty cool building. You can see it on the pictures!
After that we drove home. And with that a very cool trip found his end!

Thanksgiving!

Thanksgiving-over all the second biggest celebration in the US, but definatly the biggest food party during the year! Thanksgiving was this year on Nov, 23rd. On Wednesday before Thanksgiving our pricipal dismissed us early, that we have enough time to prepar for the day after it! On the actual Thanksgiving day, a lot of people start with going to church and after that to some family members or friends. Because I personaly dont have my own family over here...and allthe other members of my hostfamily are living more or less far away, we went to friends of my hostparents. About 10 people and a 22 lbs Turkey! That was more than enough for everybody! And of course we also hab all the other typical food but the turkey such as mashed potatos, pumkin pie, baked beans, gravy, dressing (stuffing) and some other stuff I cant think off right now!!!!
After the big meal everybody watches football, or takes a nap...kind of depends how u feel. Most people first watch the football and than go bed!
Thanksgiving is the biggest food and family party of the year.....30 million Americans traveled out od town to see their family.....and that in a country were the most familys live in one city and not all over the country!

Halloween

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Yeah! Halloween...third biggest party oin the USA, after July, 4th and of course Thanksgiving!
On Halloween all the little kids, sometimes also some older ones, dress up as what ever they feel like!! The possibilities are endless! From Justin Timberlake over Hulk to George W. Bush!
After the kids are sure about their costume, they grab their parents and a big boix for the candys! And after that they rock the streests. Hundrets and Hundrets of little kids walking from house to house alone in Danville! But not only the Trick or treeters are excited, no also the house owners. On Halloween day everybody buys a lot of candys for all the expected kids in the evening. When there are no kids coming, perfect, more candy for their own stomachs! At about 8 pm, the whole thing is over, all the kids are happy, because they got candy, and all the house owners are happy, because somebody wanted their candy!