ISTA Festival!

Hello friends and family!
We have not forgotten about our blog...Just have been very busy the past week with the ISTA Festival! ISTA stands for International Schools Theatre Association...an organization that brings together international schools from around the world for a weekend of theatre fun. Last year I volunteered for our school to host a theatre festival, and this past weekend was the festival! We hosted students from schools from Moscow, Rome, Brussels, Izmir, and Berlin. The weekend was a great success (apart from spending Saturday in the emergency room with a girl whose braces got caught on her lip...). It was an exhausting weekend, but filled with laughs and new friendships. Here are pics from the festival!

Let the adventures begin........

Now that Anna has been here for a week, we are going to give a quick recap of the week past with some special highlights that we think you all will enjoy. SOOOOO here goes:

Friday, Sept. 25th: Anna arrived in Berlin and we took the bus back to Dresden where we went to sleep straight away. I was exhausted after a late night of wine and gossip with a work friend of mine, and Anna, needless to say, was tired after her flight.....(Tired, that is, until 6 am when she woke me up saying that she had just eaten breakfast and was ready for the day....UMMM. For anybody who knows Anna, this is a VERY strange thing.)

Saturday, Sept. 26th: It was a beautiful day and Anna and I hit the town for some shopping and fun. We met George Costanza's German twin on our way downtown.That evening we went out to eat to celebrate Anna's birthday!


Sunday, Sept 27th: I made brunch for Anna and friends and then we spent the entire day enjoying the last of the warm weather in Dresden in the park. Then we went on a rendezvous with Beelzebub at the restaurant called "Devil's Kitchen." Is was damned good. Pardon the pun. Then we came home and Anna forced me to finally clean and organize my apartment and it now looks soooooo good! (pics to come.)

Monday, Sept 28th: While I had to wake up early and earn money for the two of us to have fun, Anna slept in. Then I came home from a hard day's work and slaved in the kitchen to feed hungry mouths....

Tuesday, Sept 29th: Anna continued to clean my apartment, came to meet me at school, and then we went out to dinner with Chris and Skye at our new favorite Italian restaurant.

Wednesday, Sept 30th: We colored Anna's hair. She looks hot. Then that evening we went to a concert where a friend of mine was playing. Tequila+MOFA=DEBAUCHERY.



Thursday, Oct 1st: Anna and I made breakfast for our cute little band member friends and then we ran errands for my birthday party all day. That night we made tacos and Christian came over where he proceeded to eat about 10 tacos.

Friday, Oct 2nd: Girl's Night Out with SARAH!!!!

Our new jewelry line!



Saturday, Oct 3rd: BIRTHDAY PARTY!!!!!!!!!!!!



Sunday, Oct 4th: Woke up, CLEANED up! Because yesterday was a German holiday (Reunification Day) and the stores were all closed, they decided to keep the stores open on a Sunday. YAY! So, Anna and I went shopping and out to Pizza Hut :)



Then after a day of shopping, we had a nightcap of cocktails with Ellen! Lots of good laughs and girl talk :)


Disclaimer by Anna:
This whole thing was written by Kate, and while she may make it look like all I do is sleep in (which is mostly true), I also run errands, clean clean clean, do dishes and do the laundry.. I feel like a housewife already! Anywho, it really has been a great first week and I love love love visiting Katie.. we have a lot of fun. So far this week I have met lots of good people and had lots of memorable moments. We miss you all (aka: Mom/Dad, Laura, Kristen, Kyla) :)

Did you think we FORGOT!?!?!?!??!!

The blog is back and better than ever!!!! Adventures without Kyla part deux...zwei...TWOOOOOOOOOO!

teacher from the black lagoon...

27 March 2008.
(Anna)

We woke up to a sunny(!) day and bummed around in our jammies, just relaxing. After singing "No Air" 30 times and me dancing to "Low" (again) for about 2 hours, we took the tram to a part of town we hadn't been, and Kate showed me her school! Here are some pictures!:




What a scary teacher!

After a nice day around different parts of Dresden, we stopped by the store so I could stalk the fish boy (not there today! sad..) then walked back to Kate's apartment. We chilled and sang "No Air" some more and watched "Extras" (hilarious show!). Kate made us a tasty dinner. We are going to bed a little earlier tonight because Kate has a hair appointment in the morning!!! Tomorrow we will take pictures of Kate's new hair and our fun-filled day. We are going to be walking all around town tomorrow, so we will take some good ones! Good night! :)

A white wine spritzer makes you do that?!?!?!

Just for the record...I wasn't snoring. And I never do...AND it's 11am and Anna is still SOUND ASLEEP. so lazy.
So,
Yesterday Anna and I woke up and the weather looked so nice we decided to go for a walk and do some sight-seeing. We walked from my apartment to the Golden Rider:


Then we walked over the bridge to the Altstadt:



We made our way over to the Frauenkirche and to Martin Luther! St. Olaf would be proud...





Then, after walking about a bit more, Anna and I came back home, did our nails, got ready and decided to go to the English movie that was playing. However, when we got there we realized the movie was called "Hitman" some lame-o flick about a futuristic robot who falls in love with some Russian chick. No thanks. So we decided to go out to eat instead...

1) How the night began:


2) Anna's white wine spritzer:


3) Uh oh...



4) The dance...

Oh dang, I just tried to upload Anna's crazy dance onto the Blog, but it's too big of a file!!! Well, I guess I will have to send it upon request. I have seriously never seen anything funnier.

Today we are probably going to walk over to the school and maybe meet up with some of my friends here. But who knows! Maybe we will just elope with the Bagel Boy and Fish Guy! More to come....

Oh my God, that Britney's Shameless....

If anyone is wondering where our fabulous name came from, it is in honor of our dear friend Kyla's blog of her trip to visit Kate last week.

www.adventureswithkyla.blogspot.com

Visit it to see O'Taylor and O'Olson in all of their glory.

Lions and tigers and Kevin...oh my!!!

March 24th.
(Kate.)
Anna and I woke up and I shared my dream from the night with Anna. Something about Chris Martin from Coldplay being my hairdresser and the receptionist at the salon didn't want me to see him any more, but I came in anyway and everybody ignored me there, so I tried to beat them all up, but they just laughed at me and then stole my purse.
After sharing it with Anna, I felt MUCH better. Cathartic release.
We checked out of the hotel, grabbed some breakfast and what next? Hop-on/Hop-off, of course!


It's us!

Fernseherturm. TV Tower.



Shhh! Don't tell Annabelle!

Brandenburger Tor. Brandenburg Gate.



The Berliner ZOO!!!!!



Anna and I still needed to burn a few hours before our train left at 7pm, so we decided it would be fun to go to the zoo...and it was AWESOME! I actually can't remember the last time I was at a zoo, and it awoke all those old feelings of wanting to become a veterinarian or a giraffe stablehand.




We also made a special friend....reminded us of Kyla.




He's a great listener.




Knut??? Ahh. Who knows. Who cares.



Pick up Giraffe poop? Yes. Feed the lions? No.

After a great day of Berlin touring and zoo visiting, it was finally time for us to catch the train back to Dresden.
And now we sit here in my cozy little apartment and ponder what we should do for the following days in Dresden. Much more to come....

(Anna.)
...What she said.