Posts Tagged ‘Las Vegas’

The train I take to work every morning passes by Frankfurt airport, which is an international airport where many long distance flights depart. This morning I had a group of teenagers in the train with me. They were going on a four-week-long educational trip to California, were very excited about it and couldn’t stop talking. I normally can’t stand it when people entertain the whole train with their talk in the morning, but this one was to good to be overheard or to be annyoing.

Those kids were so damn cute with their big dreams and naive thoughts about the time ahead of them. The girl that stood next to me was going to stay at a family in Chino for the four weeks. I guess this girl knew Chino from the TV series The OC, where the main character Ryan is a Chino resident. So I guess she thought Chino has some kind of Hollywood glamour and is next to the coast! That girl actually thought that she would land in a TV series world, where girls wear bikinis to school and where it is always 38° Celcius, sunny and everyone is doing great!

The cutest statement I overheard from her, was: “It will be so hot in Los Angeles right now. About 38° Celcius I read on the internet. When we will do our trip to Las Vegas for the weekend we will be freezing!” Freezing in the desert would be knew to me! Freezing in Las Vegas also would! But it got even cuter!

The girl totally freaked out about the customs check at the airport. She told all the other girls that you MUST tell the customs that you brought food to the US with you, because otherwise they will open your suitcase. She than got totally freaked out, because she seemed to have a bag of gummibears in gift wrap and guess what another girl told her: “You can’t do that! You will be in big trouble, because the X-Rays at the airport can’t scan through gift wrap and they will think that you carry a bomb or something dangerous with you!”

Luckily our arrival to Frankfurt airport interrupted their talk! I still wonder, if the girl unpacked her suitcase before the flight to rip off the gift wrap and what customs told her when she announced that she brought food with her from Germany! But even if I have to laugh a lot about their naivity, a part of me wishes to be that age again, to go to the US without a care and only with great expectations and to know that no matter how the trip will turn out to be I will go back into mommy’s arms after four weeks anyways!

I am totally excited, because tonight my husband and me will finally book our next trip to the US. We will leave the second weekend in May and stay for about two weeks. I am not only excited, because I am really looking forward to a vacation or because I will visit my new hometown, but because we will activate our Greencards on this trip! We actually postponed this trip again and again, because of our jobs, and now we will use our visa last minute. But better late than never!

Out last trip to the US was in October 2009 and took us to Florida for a week. I loved it there, but this was kind of a shopping and leisure trip. Now we are up for more! We will start our journey in San Francisco. I traveled there with my parents about 13 years ago and loved it. That’s why it is a good start for our trip. After three days in San Francisco we will rent a car and make a little road trip to San Luis Obispo. It’s my big dream to stay at the Madonna Inn Hotel, since I’ve seen it on TV (I better not tell you on which show). The next road trip will take us to Huntington Beach, where we want to stay for about a week. My husband’s friends live in Huntington Beach and it is where we want to live once we move over. So this will be the most exciting part of our trip. And the one I am most looking forward, too! I can’t wait to meet Scott and Jeana, who have been so cute to me in the last weeks! And I hope it’s not only the company of those guys what will make our stay fantastic, but also the beach, a visit to Disneyland, some cool shows, shopping sprees to Sprinkles Cupcakes and trips to Los Angeles. We will end our stay with a road trip to Las Vegas, Yosemite National Park and back to San Francisco to catch a plane back home.

I feel like a little kid waiting for it’s birthday when I only think about this trip. I am so curious, if I will cling with my new home right away. I hope that this trip will confirm that our decision to move is right and give me even more confidence about that whole emigration thing. As I can say for now: I love to have the knowledge that I will only fly to the US for holidays twice! The third time I will fly home!

I actually don’t know if I already told you that we are going to have a big wedding this August. Yes, we are already married, but we only did a civil ceremony in 2009 and will celebrate a big wedding this year. And even if we have a long eight months to go til the big day it already kills me. There is so much to decide and so much to fight for. After the Greencard win it was obvious to us, that we MUST have an American style wedding, but not everyone around here seems to understand.

The thing that worries me the most right now is my wedding dress. I’m having my first appointment to look at dresses next saturday. The problem here in Germany is: the dresses they sell are horribly posh. I am looking for a 50ies style wedding dress with tea-lengths and a huge petticoat underneath. I actually found a cool shop in California which sells vintage dresses which I love, but I won’t be able to check them out until May. I also found a wonderful Vera Wang dress, which I love but can’t afford – especially here in Germany.

The next problem is the ceremony itself. We would love to have a garden wedding with a justice of peace or something similar, but we don’t have this over here in Germany. You can only book a “free priest”, but those guys are not our style. My hubby’s choice would actually be an Elvis double, which would be way cooler than all of those priest-like guys you can book here.

Luckily some things are already (nearly) set up. We know the location for our wedding, already talked to a potential caterer (who does American food), I have my six bridesmaides, we have a DJ, a band, a photographer and we decided about the decorations. The only thing I still need to fight for with my husband is the rehearsal dinner I want, but this is a problem I can solve.

If anyone of you has some cool ideas for us or can help with any of our plans, please tell me. If all else fails, we will runaway and marry in Vegas – do it the real American way…

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