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Monday 23rd - Hundheim :D

and the night train ride was not so fun :( We hopped into our cabin with six beds and crossed our fingers that no one else would hop in too, success!!! we were alone! however in hindsight it would have been better if we'd had a full cabin then, because getting woken up after only a couple of hours to 4 guys hopping in, and then promptly falling asleep, and then snoring like freight trains mixed with chainsaws mixed is not fun. Earplugs had no hope of helping, and it was friggen hot. So we both lay awake in the dark counting the seconds go by :/ It was then train switching time and then - bliss! - back to my home away from home :) (and Ingo's actual home ;)) where we were picked up from the station by Petra and Theo, who had both taken the day off to spend time with us :)

When we got back to Hundheim we had some breakfast (scrummy yummy!) and then went straight to bed! which was all we really could do, as - speaking for myself at least - I was ready to collapse! and then after a nice long 2 hour snooze and shower and hair wash we were ready for the day!

We all went for a wander around the wildlife park that was nearby, which had so many deer!!! I've never seen that many deer in one place before :D they were so sweet! and cheekey some of them! We were given 2 bags of food at the start of the walk, and the ones that weren't too scared would come right up and stick their noses right through the fence! Not as bad as the goats though! They would try and take the food straight from the bag! and they had no sharing skills what-so-ever, so the fat ones got fatter and the little ones stayed little :s hehe. We also saw a little goat that had only recently been born, and was still a little wobbly on his feet :) very cool! Just as we were coming close to the end of the trail it started pooring with rain so we got to the cafe just in time and went in for a drink. There was also a small gallery/museum there so we had a look around there too :)

Then it was back home to get ready for the annual Kirmes :D

It was the last night of the 3 day festival and it was also the night they have preformances from different groups and Karolin (Ingo's youngest sister), Kristina and Nicole's (who I'd met previously) dance group were preforming too!!! So I was looking forward to seeing that :)
When we arrived there were people everywhere! Ingo was saying that he doesn't think he's ever seen the tent that full before! But what was really cool was how many people I recognised :) Friends and family of Ingo's that I'd met before - heaps were there and we talked to a few of them before the show started.

The first act was a boy who pulled off some pretty awesome Michael Jackson moves - and I don't think he'd had any proper training so that was pretty clever. Then there was a group of younger girls that Nicole trains, followed by group after group of dancers - awesome! :D The last group to preform were the Dog City Girls (the group I know people in!) and they were super cool :D Especially considering they'd only practised it with everyone present the once the previous afternoon! It's cool cause it's a slightly different dancing style to what I do, with lifts and cartwheels - almost 'bring it on' styles, and looks super fun!

Anyway, after they'd finished Petra and Theo finished up for the night, and Ingo and I stayed on. We talked to so many people! and I tried my hardest to keep it in German ;) Kristina also pulled us up for a boogie which was awesome fun (although I'll have that song -which name I can't remember- in my head for the rest of my life after it was played about a million times!) and I got to meet a couple of new people that we hadn't had time to meet up with before, so all in all a very fun night :) We got home at about 3am. Phew!