Lunch in Savannah day 2

THE PRINCESS......

AND THE STAR....

It´s hip 2 be square in Savannah!!

Well, after visiting our friend Savannah, we found out that she is a little bit too square! On the other hand, Borås is a little bit circular with all it´s roundabouts! In Savannah there is a lot of square little parks everywhere. But we love our new friend. She is a good hostess and hot, hot, hot. Actually, she offered us a really good tasting fudge sundae today. And warm, sunny, weather!

Today, Sarah Jessica Parker invited us to Bitten. Great clothes and great prices! We went around half of Savanna to find some shoes for Tess husband...never found any so now he has to walk like a masai in the snow this winter! The shoes he wanted are for old people. The young people looks for the oudside, the fashion, and old people likes comfort (classical Stan Smith´s = pensionärsdojjor här i USA!). Maybe he will get a pair of MBT´s for x-mas...or a pair of NIKE´s that looks like Monopoly.

Now, we need some beutysleep...Tell the Prince to wake us up tomorrow morning...

Kisses, hugs, and a lots of love

T & C

Visiting a new friend - Savannah!

Today we have travelled 500 km down to the south east of Georgia, Savannah! This is a lovely place! We live at the Mulberry Inn, Historic district. Just wondering what movie we´re in...We walk on cobbelstone streets under a thick canopy of live oak trees abd there are moss hanging from the trees. Picture you the movie Gone with the wind.

This is what it looks like in the Historic District

Please look at the house in the background, ignore the crazy person in the middle of the street, doing her very best to get run down by a horsecarriage!

Lunch in Savannah

Right now, we enjoyed our coffee while listening to a man in tux, playing the piano. Later on we´re going on a Ghost tour in a trolley and after that enjoy a HUGE stake!!Yummie!!!!!!!!!!

We´ll be back to tell you all about the Ghost Tour!!

MOaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

We´re stuffed like turkeys!

Soon it´s Thanksgiving over here, and we are afraid they want us for dinner!! The teachers and the Principal fill us with food all the time. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner! All for free!! Jesus, we would roll home to Sweden if that was possible!!!

We had a funny incident at the gas station, after having a dinner with some teachers from our school. At first we didn´t know how to open up the lid, so we went inside to get some help. The guy at the gas station went out. Suddenly the lid opened and then we didn´t know what type of gas we needed. The guy at the gas station asked for how many dollars or gallons we wanted. There we stood looking like two question marks. Well, we said, 20!!? Now, the gas station guy looked like a question mark!! 20 gallons!!?? When we then filled it up, we only needed eight gallons (and we would´t had got an ounce more of gas in the tank!!).

Then the gas station guy asked:
- Where are you from?
- Sweden, we said.
-...oh, he said,...Europe...!! Then three of the employees at the gas station started to discuss lively at some Indian language, looking strange toward us! Well, that´s what it´s like, being from Spain! (read our blog from the other day). Actually, we asked some spanishspeaking students at school what fish is in Spanish. Now we know!! It´s pescada!!!! So, we´re not only learning English, we also learn Spanish!!!!

TV Celebrities....

Today we have been interviewed at school TV. They broadcast every morning. All classrooms can watch this on their smartboard. We were on just before their pledge to the flag. So, from now on we have en even bigger fanclub than yesterday!! We wawe like queens now. We have to answer questions like; "How do you say "fish" in spanish?", are there any differences between swedish and american schools? Do you like our food? How do you say .....
Today its raining, and all recesses were held inside (all recesses means 1 (one). They don´t go out when the sun doesen´t shine...so the teachers hold an extra lesson.
We are pretty tired today, we have been resting for two hours now. It is exhasuting to meet about 100-120 new students and 15 teachers, each day + greet the ones you already met, puh!
Right now we are going to take our car and go explore some new shoppingareas round here were we live and hopefully make some new bargins!

Shop til´you drop!
Love,
Connie and Tess

What a wake up call after all shopping!

We have been in 6 different Kindergarten classes and attended one meeting. What a tempo and action there is in these classes. The children are sitting quietly and listening to their teachers, when they talk fast, really fast. Lucky for them there isn´t any speedlimit! There is a smartboard in every classroom, and 4 computers. At least to teachers and at one time we were 6 adults in the room, helping 20 children. Ususally, there is also a parent (mothers!) or two in the room. The staff is very polite and nice to us. Today the Principal payed for our lunch, tomorrow we are invited for a BBQ-lunch in 1st grade. And this is a public school, but in a very good neighbourhood.
After school we went "home" to change and have a cup of coffee. Since our heads didn´t stop spinning after all those classes, we decided we needed some fresh air, so we went to the outdoor shoppingmall near bye. Not so much to shop but they had nice pizza and a great cinema.

We are still exhausted after all that noice in Midway Elementry, so now it´s time to "plug in" our earplugs and relax.

Good night and sleep tight
C & T

Present time - on going tense, -ing-form

Shopping, eating, driving, laughing, talking and hunting (for a real good bargin!)
We have been here i Alpharetta, GA for two days now. Every hour Connie tells me, how wonderful our life and journey is.....:=) It´s fantastic! Sun and about 30 degrees today. We went with "our" family to soccergames . First Oscar, 4 years old, played his game. He is the new Zlatan. He did 3 out of total 4 goals for his team. Then a car drive to the next game with Gustav, 6 years old. Unfortunately his team lost their game. Gustav runs like a gasell! After the games we went home and left the family and went shopping for food for this evening. We had a BBQ. We must be extremly tiresome to be with since three out of four family members slept when we got back from the store. Are not we the ones who are supposed to have jetlag? Tomorrow, we are going, once again out SHOPPING. We are going to explore the Mall. They say it takes about three days to se the whole thing.....So, we´ll see you here again on Wednesday....haha