{"id":692,"date":"2015-08-23T07:19:34","date_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:19:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.anniwhere.com\/?p=692"},"modified":"2015-08-23T07:19:34","modified_gmt":"2015-08-23T13:19:34","slug":"last-week-of-summer-letzte-woche-der-sommerferien","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anniwhere.com\/?p=692","title":{"rendered":"Last week of summer\/ Letzte Woche der Sommerferien"},"content":{"rendered":"

So as planned, we took our little trip to Osage Beach\/ Lake of the Ozarks this week. We had made reservations at a resort that Adam had gone to with a church group when he was maybe 10 years old – he had liked it then, but maybe we should have considered that this was 25 years ago. You can probably already guess – the resort wasn’t exactly in ship shape ^^. Old, old carpet, lots of concrete and a musty smell characterized it pretty well. The towns and places around the Lake weren’t in much better shape though – everything had its prime a decade or two ago I would say. It’s safe to say I got the Lake out of my system, not that there weren’t a few worthwhile things around (like the Outlet Mall), but generally we came across a lot of average or less than average things that were overpriced. At least the chicken had fun :-).<\/p>\n

Wie geplant sind wir diese Woche f\u00fcr unseren kleinen Trip nach Osage Beach\/ Lake of the Ozarks gefahren. Wir hatten ein Zimmer in einem Resort reserviert, in dem Adam mal mit einer Kirchengruppe war als er ca. 10 Jahre alt war – damals fand er es super, aber wir h\u00e4tten vielleicht dr\u00fcber nachdenken sollen, dass das 25 Jahre her ist. Ihr k\u00f6nnt es euch vielleicht schon vorstellen – das Resort war nicht mehr ganz im Topzustand ^^. Seeehr alter Teppich, viel Beton und ein muffiger Geruch waren die Hauptmerkmale. Die St\u00e4dte um den See herum waren in keinem besseren Zustand, alles hatte seine beste Zeit vor 10-20 Jahren w\u00fcrde ich sagen. Ohne Zweifel muss ich nicht wieder dorthin, auch wenn es zumindest ein paar nette Dinge drumherum gab (wie z.B. die Outlet Mall). Aber alles in allem waren es durchschnittliche oder schlechtere Orte\/ Restaurants\/ Aktivit\u00e4ten die zu viel kosteten. Wenigstens das H\u00e4hnchen hatte Spa\u00df :-).<\/strong>
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\nOn our way back to meet Debbie in Columbia on Wednesday we spontaneously stopped in our state capital Jefferson City and took a little self-guided tour of the State Capitol Building. That was actually quite interesting – especially because not only weren’t you checked in any way coming in (no metal detectors or any security), no – it was possible to just walk around everywhere. The only locked rooms were the Senate and House chambers.
\nAuf dem R\u00fcckweg nach Columbia, wo wir am Mittwoch mit Debbie verabredet waren, haben wir in unserer Staats-Hauptstadt Jefferson City angehalten und eine kleine selbstgef\u00fchrte Tour durch das Regierungsgeb\u00e4ude gemacht. Das war tats\u00e4chlich sehr interessant, vor allem weil man \u00fcberhaupt nicht kontrolliert wurde wenn man rein kam (keine Metall Detektoren oder andere Sicherheitsma\u00dfnahmen), nein – man konnte einfach \u00fcberall herumlaufen. Die einzigen abgeschlossenen R\u00e4ume waren die Senats- und die Parlamentsr\u00e4ume.<\/strong>
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\nWith Debbie we made our way to St. Louis for a long-planned Foo Fighters concert that we went to that night. It was great, as expected and they rocked the house for a solid 2.5 hours.
\nMit Debbie sind wir nach St. Louis zu einem schon lange geplanten Foo Figthers Konzert gefahren. Es war gro\u00dfartig, genau wie erwartet und die Band rockte geschlagene 2,5 Stunden lang.<\/strong>
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\nSince we had time to spare the next day we decided to go downtown and (finally in my case) go up the Gateway Arch. I had been told about the tiny little space capsule-looking tram and it was quite a ride with an awesome view through tiny windows once you’re at the top :). Needless to say the chicken enjoyed this too.
\nDa wir am n\u00e4chsten Tag Zeit hatten, sind wir in die Innenstadt gefahren und (endlich in meinem Fall) auf den Gateway Arch gefahren. Mir war schon von den kleinen Raumfahrt-Kapsel artigen Miniz\u00fcgen erz\u00e4hlt worden und es war eine spannende Fahrt mit einem gro\u00dfartigen Blick aus Mini-Fenstern, wenn man einmal oben ist :-). Muss ich erw\u00e4hnen dass das H\u00e4hnchen ebenfalls viel Spa\u00df hatte?<\/strong>
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\nTomorrow school will start again, so Owen and Alyssa will be with us Sunday-Friday. So we’re done with trips of this kind for a while and hopefully something will transpire with some of those numerous applications I’ve been sending out these past weeks.
\nMorgen geht die Schule wieder los, d.h. Owen und Alyssa sind sonntags- freitags bei uns. Jetzt ist also erstmal Schluss mit Unternehmungen dieser Art und hoffentlich tut sich bald was bei den zahlreichen Bewerbungen, die ich in den letzten Wochen verschickt habe!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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