May 17, 2018 - Elisa's Upcoming Events & Trips This Summer And Tanya visits Peenemünde and heads into Poland

Elisa's Daily Scoop
Covering Long Island & NYC Boroughs
CURRENTLY IN: GARDEN CITY, NY

Joan of Arc Costume and Summer Activities

Howdy folks!!

I cannot believe I am just sitting down to write my blog today.  It's almost 11:15AM.  My morning was yet again, filled with things to get done - drop off kids, get cupcakes and brownies for Gianna's "Friends" Birthday Party at the house this weekend, to start the day.

Then upon arriving back home, I spent the next two hours, sewing - making a cape for Kelsey's Joan of Arc costume for her social studies fair tonight. 

​Here is the original image I copied from:

Joan of Arc Costume from Pinterest

Here is the cape I made:

Kelsey's Joan of Arc Cape (c) travelincousins.com

I could NOT find an iron on with the insignia on the front.  Oh well, she does however, have everything else including the sword, so I think she will be fine for her five minutes on stage tonight.

I brought it to the school and now I'm back, rearin' to go and get my writing going!!

Travel Talk Time!!!

Well, as you know, Tanya is on her second day of her Poland, Germany and More trip.  She arrived yesterday in Stockholm and spent the day flitting around Gamla Stan, the oldest town in Sweden.  Taking pictures and sending them to her jealous cousin!!

Driving to Germany last night, she visited Peenemünde this morning (Germany time) and then proceeded to cross into the north western part of Poland, where she was when I spoke to her around 10:30AM Eastern time.

Isn't modern technology and communication great!!!

She did manage to get on to post a short update, but will add more later on! I'm just loving her pictures.  

Have you guys been following us on social media - we have bumped up our posts daily, so I hope you are enjoying them!!

I've been wanting to tell you guys all about some of the events and plans I am currently putting on my calendar for the balance of May, June, July and August. 

Some are not locked in as of yet with specific dates, but, will be shortly.  

May
Jones Beach Air Show
Memorial Day Weekend

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​Bronx Zoo Street Art Show
Memorial Day Weekend

STREET ART LEGENDS (bronxzoo.com)

​Bronx Church Tour - Bronx Historical Tours
Last Week of May

(c) bronx historical tours

 
June
Mean Girls on Broadway
The girls love this movie!  And I'll admit, so do I. They have been dying to see the Broadway musical, so I just ordered tickets this morning, for the end of June, at the beginning of Summer Vacay.
I haven't told them yet - going to be a surprise!!

Bronx Micro Brewery Crawl
(no date yet)

July 
Day Trips
> Stony Brook
> Old Bethpage Village Restoration
> Sag Harbor

August
Weekend Trips
> Scranton, PA 
> Hudson, NY 
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I'll be fitting these into the calendar and keeping you posted.


Well, last night we had a nice, quiet dinner - me and the girls and sang Happy Birthday to my Gianna!! 

There will be a great deal more celebrating over the next few days and through the weekend!

Ok, well, have a lot to do!  

More tomorrow!!

-E
xoxo

Tanya's Daily Scoop​​
Covering the West Coast & the World
CURRENTLY TRAVELING IN: GERMANY & POLAND

To Peenemünde we go!

Guten Morgen! 

Well I woke up bright and early and with only 2 hours of sleep last night. No alarm or anything. Just the pure excitement of being on vacation!

I'm like a child on Christmas morn when I'm on vacation. Besides...who needs sleep? LOL

Dave, Dave is who needs sleep. And although he catches his zzz's at every given opportunity. He still wants more. He woke up about an hour and twenty minutes after I did and I (the sweetie that I am) greeted him with a "Good Morning Sunshine"! 
He was less than entertained by my enthusiasm.

In fact he claimed that I was crazy. Am I?
Well maybe...but purely in a good way!

He simply could not understand why I was awake after going to sleep so much later than he did (busy writing yesterday's blog and uploading pictures - READ IT HERE) and knowing that I didn't get many hours of rest.   Then once I told him when I actually did wake up and without any alarm, he said that I was certifiable!! GASP!

We arrived quite late last night when the town and all of the townsfolk were tucked away for the night.

We tiptoed ever so quietly to our room at Hotel Zur Burg here in Burg Stargard, a small town  situated 5 miles southeast of Neubrandenburg.

The town's most famous sight is the Stargard Castle which is the northernmost extant hill castle in Germany and somewhere that we are actually not going.

We are however about to head out to Peenemünde and the coast of the Baltic sea!

Come back later to read more and see pics.

Time for us to hit the road,
-Travelin' Tanya

And now I'm back (online). After a full day of doing this and doing that and driving from Burg Stargard to Peenemünde to Swinoujscie to Poznan, totaling around 7+ hours on the road!

Dave was super into visiting Peenemünde - a place that I had never heard of before. Dave is a huge fan of Thomas Pynchon and there is mention of Peenemünde in one of his books. So Dave being there was kinda like Cosette being at Warner Bros. studio outside of London (where they filmed the Harry Potter movies). 

I'm glad that I could be there and watch them enjoy themselves so much.

​Please enjoy the photos from our day:
​Starting with breakfast and heading to Peenemünde

About to dig in to all this fruit! (c)travelincousins.com

Checked out and ready to depart (c)travelincousins.com

At the Peenemünde Museum (c)travelincousins.com

One big rocket! (c)travelincousins.com

From the roof looking down at the grounds (c)travelincousins.com

If you want to know, this is where I am (c)travelincousins.com

Then we would cross borders and head into Poland ...

Swinoujscie, Poland (c)travelincousins.com

How on earth do you learn this language?! I can't even pronounce Swinoujscie! LOL (c)travelincousins.com

By the time we puled into Poznan I think that Dave and I were both pretty antsy to get out of the car for the day.

We arrived too late for the vegan restaurant that I was planning on, but went to Bar-a-Boo and found a few dishes that worked out just fine.

Lastly we came to check in and now go to bed. 
Perhaps I'll get more than 2 hours tonight..

Ciao 4 now,
-Travelin' Tanya