My USA Dream : #54 Christmas vacation & more

Heyy guys! You didn’t hear from me in quite a long time and I’m sorry for that but over the holidays it was almost impossible for me to update this blog because we were busy the whole time! As I told you before, my family and I went on Christmas vacation and it was awesome!!! But first let me tell you more about my Christmas. Since I live in a big family with lots of relatives, we had three full days of Christmas. It started on Christmas Eve where we had our treasure hunt which revealed what our first destination for our trip was: The caves! In the evening we went to the grandparents where we had a big Christmas buffet and gift exchange with the big family. I got a stocking with all my favorite stuff like Reeses, peanut butter and more. I didn’t expect to get anything so I was really surprised. On Christmas day I could experience the typical American Christmas because it is tradition here to open presents in the morning which we did. Everybody was happy and it was a good time. After that we went to another gift exchange and buffet and when we drove back, I rode in the trunk of a van *-*.
On the last day of Christmas (which is only a Christmas day in Germany and not in America) we went to another side of the family. We went bowling and had a white elephant gift exchange with Bingo, which was hilarious. This side of the family is known to be a little crazy, so I fit right in :D

One of our two christmas trees, this one is a plastic one. Many Americans don't use real ones

57 Santas are on that tree! Creppy much. It's from our grandparents

The next day we wanted to leave for our trip but I woke up in the middle of the night because I had to throw up and I found out that three of my siblings had the same thing. We still decided to leave in the morning because everybody except me was feeling good again (I also caught a cold or something). So all my siblings rode the van while I went in the car with two of my older sisters and a German exchange student from last year who came to visit. I felt horrible the whole car ride. I won’t go into too much detail about vacation now but I’ll tell you the most important things (to me anyways haha). As you could already figure out, it was a road trip and we didn’t even have certain plans only that we wanted to go down to Alabama but in the end we actually ended up in FLORIDA! I went through 5 new states this vacation (Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, Florida, and Mississippi) and we stayed in 7 different hotels. It was so much fun! I’ve never been on a real road trip so I enjoyed it very much. The caving was one of my highlights because it wasn’t just a tour but an exploration trip where we had to crawl through the cave. It was so narrow that we had to press our tummy to the ground and try to push ourselves forward. I almost got stuck so it’s really not that easy! We also watched the new Star Wars and went to the Creation Museum. All in one I had an unforgettable Christmas. Now I’m in school again and it is really boring in my study hall cause the Internet is down or only open for education sites. My schedule is a little different from last year; I have business law in sixth now and foods in seventh. Even though I thought business law would be the definition of boredom, it’s actually really fun and I like the teacher.
So stay tuned, I probably will upload some pictures soon. Oh, I totally forgot to mention that it was my birthday on Saturday. My family made my favorite meal for supper which is eggroles and cream cheese thingies. On Sunday we played card games for seven hours straight! You guys should check out the game Euchre which is common in the Midwest of the USA.