Happy Birthday Celebration

The Birthday Boy (Nicole's Dad) & Boris (Nicole's Boyfriend)

Today we celebrated Nicole's father's birthday. To celebrate we drove out to Storkow, Germany where they lived.

For his birthday I brought him a liqueur, which  he seemed very excited about and opened right away.

Nicole and her sister Katja

We quickly stopped by Nicole's Grandparents to say say hello. They seemed like the nicest person. He took time to speak about his father during Nazi, Germany and how much his father did not want to fight. His father became a soldier, but was given the dirty jobs that those who didn't support the war were given. When given the chance he tried to switch to the Russian side, but the German's got word and he was then killed. I am so happy I got the chance to meet him and his wife. I wish I would have gotten to know more of his history and his families history.
After the quick stop we went bowling. They wrote my name down and the bowling people are obviously not used to the name Tiffini, because my name became Tiffang. It gave us all a good laugh.

I got a chance to meet Nicole's sister as well. She asked me if my cousin, Julia was as high (tall) as me. She was very surprised about how big I was.

Also due to the language barrier, I told her uncle "I'm Tiffini, nice to meet you." He replied, "No." I would like to think he meant 'No English' instead of 'No it's not nice to meet you' haha.

It was a blast. They did comment on my bowling style though. They said I looked professional. I tried to explain the ball didn't think so, because it isn't hitting the pins like I want it to. Game one I scored 95 and game two 98.

Nicole said bowling had only been around East Berlin for about ten years, because when the wall was up they didn't get things like that there.

After bowling we went to Indian food for dinner. It was a fun experience and I enjoyed speaking with Katja. One of the few who spoke English. I felt right at home =).