The North Sea

On Sunday, Matthias and I made up for our lack of sleep the day before by spending the morning sleeping in and lounging around....or at least that was the plan. Matthias spent several hours working on his mom's computer while I worked on packing. Matthias' grandmother made lunch for everyone of Hefekloose (yeast dumplings) with butter and fruit.

After lunch Matthias and I drove to Freidrichstadt, or "little Holland." It was a cute village but more of a tourist trap than anything with some wooden shoes here and there. After that Matthias wanted to show me the North Sea so we went to a place called Hamburger Hallig. A hallig is an island but is accessible by land twice a day when the water goes down. It's pretty interesting to see islands the size of houses in the middle of the sea. Hamburger Hallig is very rarely now surrounded by water but was cool to visit.

Back in Grossenwiehe we visited with Matthias' grandfather, checked out the garden at the house, and played three rounds of Kniffel (Yahtzee) with Matthias' grandmother.

Today we're in Grossenwiehe for a few hours this morning and then head to Berlin. We're thinking of going to Potsdam to Schloss Sanssouci and the huge gardens there. Then we're overnight at another hostel in Berlin and then catch the flight in the morning.