With an old train to Bethlehem ;)

Howdy,

I woke up early in the morning and had my really quick oatmeal breakfast. We watched some short scary movies. Each movie half a hour. I got dressed and we left the house at 11am to drive to Georgetown. We met Suizie, Haley, Rickey, and Rickey's parents at a mexican restaurant. I ate a Tacco Salad. It was good, Not the best Tacco Salad I had but still really good. Anyway, it took us more than a hour to eat and drive to the train station. Yeah, there's a train station in Texas. A station for an old train with old wagons, and we got tickets to ride with that train. 

[The train :)]

Shannon, Sharons other daughter joined our group and after a few hourse of waiting they led us go into the train. I got a window place, but the seats were really small. It was small on the legs in the seats for four people. Sharon and Sam sat with Adrian and me. It was nice. We met a Sheriff, actually an actor, who offered Adrian and me that we could play with his show fight group and get a little role. That would be really cool, wouldn't it? 

[The Sheriff and I]

 

We arrived two hours later in Burnet, and went straight to the Bethlehem city. It's Bethlehem 2000 years ago at the time Jesus was born. The church earns more than two city bloggs and build the city on the ground. It's surrounded by a wall with wooden gates, and it's just amazing. Everything was so real. The buildings all made out off real stones. You could really live in it. The church member were dressed up so real and acted really professional. 

[Church member dressed like 2000 years ago]

You could here some shepherds talking about Jesus and others gossiping about the shepherds. They really cooked, ate and lived it. It was better and more real than every medieval market we went to in Germany. That was really amazing. We should have something like that in Germany, or a medieval market like that. I swear that would be so, so awesome! :D

We got to try the sweet bethlehem bread. It's really good. Fire roasted bread with cinnamon or sugar on it. Yummi! It was awesome. I wished we had had more timw to explore everything. They had camels, donkeys, and geese. I patted my first goose, got a photo with a camel, and tasted this great bread. 

[A picture with a camel ;) Love it! Do you see the man smiling? ;)]

 

After we went trough the city we started going over a christmas market. It wasn't a real christmas market, but kind of. It had a lot of country style items, and I saw some really nice belts. They're so, so expensive, but Sharon and I agreed that they were really cool. That's a funny thing about her and me. We almost got the same taste with the Cowgirl things. I met a 40 year old woman and her mother. They were both from Germany, and it felt so good to talk to them. The older lady spoke like my Grandmother, and it was just like a little bit of Germany standing in front of me. We talked just a few minutes, but I enjoyed those five minutes so much. She told me how deep the snow in Germany was when she flow. She arrived one day ago to visit her daughter. I gave both of them a hug, and we went back to the train.

[Be careful! Railroad Crossing]

On the ride back I went to buy a water for Shannon, and the train guard asked me about my accent. We talked a little bit, and he gave me a christmas present. He gave me a little train treassure, with train earrings, a train pin and a necklace. I fell asleep on the way back, and woke up when we arrived. We all went to the car and drove to iHop. It was a really late dinner at 10pm, but also a great ending for the day.

[He gave me the present. Really nice man. Love his hat :D]

I'm so, so thankful for this experience, and so so happy that I saw that. Just wished my mom in Germany were able to see that. I know how much she would have loved it. Thank you for the food, the train ride, the bethlehem visit and everything else on this great day. I had an amazing time!!!

Sonja