Today I woke up at 8 a.m. and after a bit reading I had the typical American breakfast – it is so funny that after more than 2 weeks that seem so familiar to me – the pancakes with sausage! 🙂 Then Sarah dropped Piper and me of at the Riverside’s Art Market where we met Laura and Maggie and her mother! The RAM was so impressive and huge – I loved the art and the food that was sold there. And the location at the river is amazing 🙂 ✨
After that we went to Hawkers, an Asian restaurant, where Piper and I shared Chicken Lo Mein and we also tried sweet french fries that were sprinkeld with cinnamon. We also walked through the shopping street there and went into the ‚Midnight’s Sun‘ that’s kind of a hippie store but I loved it. Especially my younger sister Laura would have loved it because there were so may healing stones!
We chatted for a bit at home and then all the girls (Molly, Margot, Moxie, Masie, Piper and me) went on a walk first to the river and then to the ‚Encanto house‘. This house in the neighborhood is decorated like one movie every year for Halloween. We done a small treasure hunting and that was really funny! Afterwards we went to Whits where we got again really good and soooo much ice cream!
We watched one big football game that was today in JAX on TV and that was really interesting. I also called my best friend Nele. She lives in Oregon for 10 months and is now 2 months there and we talked about America and what was going on in each others lifes and it was wonderful to hear from her again :)!
I walked the dogs for a second time because I had so much energy and then the whole family drove with me to a huge book store with old and new books – the Chamblin! And there was an Halloween special because a big part of the store was dark and we could only see something with flashlights – that was unique and funny! I found so many books I love there – Eragon and also the book about the most popular Camino movie „The way“! 🙂 ✨
On the way back we stopped at the Encanto house again and this is so unique and in the dark even more beautiful! The rest of the evening was also nice because we started watching ‚Hamilton‘ (the musical) and I liked it a lot and it is one of the most famous musicals in the US! 🙂
An amazing day is coming to an end! I loved this relaxed weekend day with my host family and I think it’s really funny that even if I’m „just“ 2 1/2 weeks here it feels like it has been so much longer! It feels literally like a different world here – but I love it and I try to enjoy every single moment of the time I will spend here and I’m so grateful for✨✨✨ 🙂
