The Time with Hetty

Here are the Girls' accounts of the week with Hetty (30th September - 9th October).

Time With Hetty in Dagmersellen

Mum and Dad were going to Santorini in the Greek Islands for a week so we decided to invite Hetty down to stay with us for that time. She arrived in Luzern on the 30^th of September by train. We took her back to our house, gave her the grand tour and let her settle in. Mum and Dad left that night at about 10pm and Hetty, Alex, Zoe and I got settled in for a good week of eating chocolate and watching way too many movies.

For one day while Hetty was here we took a trip into Luzern. Hetty drove us in and we got ready to show her around. To tell you the truth, we didn’t really do much sight seeing, it was just shopping, shopping and more shopping for us. Alex bought some boots, Zoe bought some tank tops and I bought some novelty earrings. We had a really good day and had Maccas for lunch.

Other activities we enjoyed while Hetty was here were Europa Park, watching Friends, playing Monopoly and playing ping pong. We had some really good competitions with ping pong, it was quite funny.

Overall it was a good week and we really enjoyed having Hetty down here with us.

-- Madeleine

Time with Tante Netty and Bernd in Dagmersellen

They arrived in Switzerland on Monday the 6^th of August. I had already baked a nice chocolate cake for them for when they arrived. We all sat together and caught up on everything. On Tuesday we all went into Lucerne to show them around. They (Hetty, Bernd and Tante Netty) went on a boat cruise and we (Zoe, Mad and I) walked around the town and had a lot of fun. It was a nice sunny day and no one wanted to go home in the evening. We played a couple of games together and just had a really nice time. I think they enjoyed their stay in Switzerland.

-- Alexandra

Our Trip To Europa Park

Ok, well, I’m going to be giving a short summary of when Hetty, Madeleine, Alexandra and I went to Europa Park. We all set our alarms for 5.30am on Thursday morning as the train we were taking left at 6.32am. We had already packed our bags the night before so all we had to do was have breakfast, get dressed and do all of our normal morning activities. At about 6.00, all 4 of us headed out into the cold and complete darkness towards the train station of Dagmersellen. (Which is about a 15 minute walk).

It was 3 hours on the train to get to Europa Park which is placed in Germany and we stopped off 2 times to swap trains. When we finally got there, of course, we went on the first ride we saw! This ride happened to be named ‘Silver Star’ and it was so scary! When you went down the big decline, all the breath left you until you got back down! I don’t want to bore you and tell you every little detail about all the rides we went on so I’ll just say that we went on HEAPS of rides which were all really fun! We bought some hot chips and Coke for lunch. (of course!). By the end of the day, we were all EXHAUSTED!! It didn’t help that we missed one of our trains to get back to Dagmersellen either! We had to wait another hour and a half until the next train came and it was already 8.30. But we took advantage of the delayed train and walked into the town and got some pizza which was expensive, but yummy! So, when we finally got back home, we all went straight to bed and slept-in very late the next morning!

--Zoe