Happy TomKat Day!!!

I hope everyone reading this has the best day ever ... maybe you can even have a better time than you did on Senderos Day =)



And btw .. Jason's River is the bestest show ever, it is sooooooo Dawson's Creek on so many levels, I mean, Pace, dude, come on!!!

Holding Hands Is Nice

The Disneyland rides are a bit funny. They have a special sign on them that says you are not allowed to hang out of the ride like a moron, but that you have to hold hands with the buddy next to you ...

As you can plainly see, I am not lying to you. And even when you do not want to, well, you just have to. I mean, who are we to argue with the Disney signs, right?

As you can clearly see, we are not scared, but we are just following what the sign told us!!!

Germany 3 - 2 Portugal

So this is the last game we would watch in Germany before our trip to Paris! And then it was Germany vs Portugal. Its like our two faves teams *Romania for me, but oookay* and then this. Meeting in the quarterfinal already. Thats just really sad. :(

But what do you wanna do? Enjoy the game, I guess. And that is what we did. It was a very long day for us, because my parents, my cousine, his mate and my nephew have been over. Adding Jess and myself, you can calculate how many guys have been in my little appartment.

So when the game started my Mum and nephew fell asleep on the bed, while Jess and myself have been ready to cheer for both or either of the teams.

At the WC 2006 I was cheering for Portugal, since they had my biggest football hero of all times in their team. The great, the wonderful, the one and only: LUIS FIGO! Last time this teams met I was in the stadium with my brother and we had a fantastic time. This time I watched it with Jess and again, we should have a fantastic time. And again Bastian Schweinsteiger would end as the great man of the match!

Make it easy for all of you. Germany won. Portugal lost. Schweinsteiger scored, so did Klose and Ballack. Nuno Gomes and Helder Postiga scored for Portugal. 3-2 and it was a fantastic! Really fantastic. I enjoyed everything about it and of course I did enjoy the result a lot.

After that it was just a question of time till the people were on the streets, celebrating! And hey, why should we not?

Don´t believe it? Here we go:

My Trip To Basel

Yesterday I was feeling somewhat adventurous and I took a train trip to Basel. I know that most people would think I am a bit insane because I did not go to sightsee and look at old churches or something, but rather I went to go and soak up some football atmosphere and have a good time. I also did go to see the football things that they had going on, so if ou want to count that as sightseeing, then I guess that is what I did.

For the train ride, my Twister was kind enough to lend me a book to read. It was a really good book and I did not want to have to get off the train because I wanted to know what happened! Here is a picture of my train. How exciting.

Upon arrival in Basel, I went looking for information about how to get to the fan walk. The information lady gave me a map and told me where I should go. And as I headed outside, I realised how freezing cold it was compared to the train and wished that I had a scarf with me (despite already wearing many layers).

The first thing I went to find was the super football store that I had read so much about. It is the biggest football store out of all the places that are playing host to the Euro and I was luck enough to be going there! It was set up in a huge tent and no joke, it was HUGE.

When you arrive, you have to walk up this path and there is these silhouettes that take "photos" of you and then there are some dressed up like fans. It is like you are the famous football player and they are all in love with you. Then they have the footballs all lined up and the information about them next to them.

The store was like some kind of heaven. It was just full of all football everything and it was a moment of "where do I go first?". I ended up spending an hour in the shop first off and also too much money LOL. And the whole time I was in there, all they played was the best music in the world (and if you know me, then you know what I am talking about).

After finally leaving the store with all my shopping, I then looked to have some lunch. Stupid me only had Euros and then could not find a bank anywhere (like no joke, I looked for ages). Lucky I went to Maccas and they took Euros, then just giving me change in Swiss Francs (which was also a good excuse to have to spend more money later on). So here is what I had for lunch:

After lunch I went walking along the Fan Boulevard. Here is how long I walked for:

It was easy to find the way because the streets are marked with these art things overhead. There are lots of them all along the way and each has a different bit of artwork on them. The photo does not do them justice as they looked so damn cool as I walked along.

I walked to the bridge and over it all the way. The bridge has the big screens on them that they show the games on at night. It was a bit like how they had it in Frankfurt, but the screens are not able to be in the water because the current is too strong. It would have been great to stay there and watch a game as the view and the fan places to sit were so damn cool. If the sun had been out, then I would have stayed, but since it started to rain on my way back to the train it was not really worth it.

After walking the path, I made my way back the way that I had come. I stopped into the gisnt shop one last time (and also I had some money I had to spend because I was not going to be able to at any other time). Then I got on the train to come home. I finished off my book before I was anywhere near Stuttgart.

And that was my trip to Basel.

Some Special Spam

This is most certainly what girls do when they are left alone .......

Like I have said before, when we went to the park, we played a game of Prison Break.

Being trapped in a prison and trying to find a way out is really hard work. And as you will see, not everyone will end up making it out in the end.

When one is trapped in prison, you have to do a lot of things for yourself, such as getting the water for the day. This is important as you need to wash yourself and keep clean. You also need the water to drink so you do not die of dehydration in the hot sun (fortunately for us, the day was not really all that hot, but sometimes it is!).




We devised a way to get out of prison. It involved filling the metal bowl with sand and rocks and getting it up to the top of the prison - which is where one can make their escape!

This is how Adriana got her bowl up to the top of the prison:

Lots of rocks and sand make the bowl really heavy to lift up to the roof!

The end of the escape involves being able to make the wheel turn around with the sand and rocks. Adriana tried to use her hands ful of sand to do it, but it did not work. Jess filled up the bowl and tried it ...

Sine it worked, Jess got out of prison and got to enjoy the sun on the prison roof ...

But, unfortunately, as you can see, Adriana was very sad because she got stuck down the bottom in the prison ...

And so that was how we played Prison Break when we went to the park ... and we know you are all jealous that you could not come and play too!!!

Playing In The Park

Today here is it freezing cold, but yesterday when the sun came out, we rugged up and the Twisters went to go out and play in the park!

We went on all the rides ...

Here we are on the swings:



Here is Adriana rocking the rocker!!!

Here we are sliding down the slide ....

We had a lot of fun there! When we were there we also played a game of "Prison Break" but that is for my next post ..........

Portugal fans!

Yes, you are ready to witness some true Portugal fans. Aside of Germany and of course Romania for me, we also follow Portugal. And since it seems to be quite a tradition, we keep watching the games at the Monkeys place! So it was not a big surprise when we arrived like 12 minutes late at the Monkeys and realised Deco already scored the leading goal for Portugal. Now what? Just sit and enjoy it and use the moment to raise some new Portugal fans.

Sabine already did her job in explaining her cute son that Nuno Gomes is an awesome player. He knows that by heart. He also knows where the Chicken met Figo and Nuno Gomes and that Ronaldo cries a lot LOL

Aaaaanyway, here we go with the photos from the Portugal vs Czech Republic game. Portugal won 3-1 in the end, the goals scored by Deco, Ronaldo and Quaresma and some Cezch guy that I can´t remember the name anymore. Why should I anyway...

Okay, enjoy and smile! :)

Awww! That is cuuuute!

Happy photo spamming!!

This is how you belong to Jesus...

Romanian pride!!

Spain and Sweden for the win!

And that is what happens with a stalker in the room... GRRR!

A sunny day out - more or less

Since we decided that we will never ever be happy when the sun shines again, we just realised that the weather is shit.

That has a reason. Everytime we saw the sun we got all excited "Yeah, its sunny today." and the next thing you hear is thunder. Grrrreat. So from now on the weather is just shit. Understood?

Today we thought we should just take the chance of some sun and go into the city. Why not? For sure there would not be any weirdo Italians celebrating like morons after they lost 3-0 vs Holland last night. MUAHAHAHAHA! We had some fun watching that game. Italy beat Australia and Germany at the WC 2006 so they have not been our most fave team as you can tell.

I for my side never really liked the Dutch team much either, but they have been really amazing last night and won very deserved. Italy have been full shit and I enjoyed it. The defense looked poor and so did the attack. Toni *while playing for Bayern one of my faves, playing for Italy = pure shit! Understood???* was poor with all his chances, biggest surprise for me, really.

But aaaaanyway.... we went to the city today to look around and maybe get some cool fan stuff. I mean, they sell the flags and the stuff everywhere in the city. Yet of course you can not find anything for or about Romania. Its like they are not even there. I am angry. I get really pissed off about that. Its quite a task to find anything in the blue, yellow, red- colors. It sucks for me. But who cares, right?

After I gave up on anything romanianrelated, we found the coolest shirts ever. We will show them to you, no worries. With them in our bags we also decided to take some nice pics to show off that we actually had a sunny day finally. I realised that dark blue jeans are not the most clever pants to wear on such a sunny day. But my "Diva-shirt" gave me at least the stylish look which would nail my crown later on.

After finding the Jamie Oliver books that I wanted to get to improve my cooking skills, I realised they are just too expensive and I will have to find another way to learn how to cook eatable food. Jess is teaching me a lot and I have the feeling I might get better with the time.

We decided to have our lunch at "Burger King" because its part of my "gaining weight programm". So we had burgers and fries and coke and icecream for free. But more important, we got crownd "Princesses of Danomite and Topsterland" and so we waved to all our people in the subway. That is how you end a day in style!

Home again Jess helped me to understand my Uni application shit and so now at least I know what I have to do when I want to sign in my Uni and finally go to the "big school" from October on. Fun, hu?

We watched the Spain vs Russia game, had a nice time. Now Sweden just scored 2 goals vs Greece and since we never forgot what they did to our beloved Portugal, we will hate them with a passion for the rest of our lives. And having THE ZLATAN to score the first goal just made us laugh and smile even more! As you can see we had a fun Spain-Sweden time and I was fully supporting the teams ;)

Anyway, that is how it looks like when we had had too much sun! Enjoy the pics!

See, sunny day in Stuttgart! Real sun! That was where the FanFest was in 2006!

And with the nice building in the background!

^^The Princess of Danomite! ^^

^^ The Princess of Topsterland ^^

Another football story...

Yes, it is true, it is 2008 and yes, Jess is here again. Why? Well, it is the Euro. Its football time and we just got really used to each other spending time together during the summer.
6 weeks of Twister stories you will find on here. And for as long as the Euro is on, we will for sure follow the games of our teams. They are of course Portugal, Germany and now for me Romania. I doubt we will see them too long in the tournament, but hey, who knows, right?

Anyway, at this point we already saw the Portugal vs Turkey game. It ended 2-0 for Portugal, that made us proud. We watched the game at the Monkeys place, wearing Portugal jerseys. Jess had her Ronaldo one and I was wearing my Figo shirt. Memories, you know.

Sabine, who is a big Nuno fan, was cheering with us, while we ate our BBQ stuff and laughed about the fact that one of the Turkish players looked like "Sayide" from our fave show "LOST".
Anyway, Pepe and Raul M. scored the goals and aside of Deco *who started shitting us off* Portugal looked very good, solide and attacking. Oh and Figo was in the stadium looking fancy in his jacket and jeans. Sexy as always.

The Germany game we watched in a Pub with other Germany fans. And Sabine of course, who left Notker and Corvin at home to enjoy a girls night at the football. We had some nice fun, watching Germany beat Poland 2-0 aswell. Podolski scored both goals and Gomez missed a fantastic oppertunity right in the beginning. Very good performance by Fritz who started as the surprise on the Schweinsteiger position. Still Schweini got his chance to shine later on the game and he also had a very good performance.
Nice victory by Germany and now we have to wait how their performance will be vs Croatia, because then I guess you can really tell how strong they are. Go GERMANY!
On the way home people were waving the Germany flag out of their cars and many fans jumped and danced. Okay, we only won one single game so far, but the spirit of 2006 is still around. I never saw so many Pubs showing football games before. Its nice to get that little part of the 06 summer back again.

That is our first Germany game in pictures:


True Germany Fans!

I hope we can report more fun from the Romania game!