After we left Upstate New York, we went down to Manhattan to see the Thanksgiving Parade, which was super cool! One night before it started a police officer told us we had to be on the streets by 3am in order to be in the front row before Macy‘s. Even though I am up for a lot of early mornings, we decided no. We got out of the car at 8am, when the streets, were still, not even close to crowded. We went to Macy‘s where it turns out to only be accessible to people with tickets. THANKS police officer! Good thing we didn‘t get up at 3am 😀 Our original plan was to watch it out of our bed or the top of the car, but the police didn‘t think that‘s fun and decided to keep telling us we need to move the car. At the end we just watched it like any other „tourist“ haha. When people ask me if it‘s fun, I have to say „Yes“ simply because it is an experience. Either way you do stand there for the longest time ever and the groups are pulled apart very far, probably so they don‘t have to wait so long in front of the Macy‘s buidling. But that‘s just a guess.

After staying in Manhattan for quiet some time again, we actually took the ferry to see the Statue of Liberty and went up the One World Observatory, which was pretty cool. Meaning this time we were tourists. 😀

Once we left Manhattan, we visited our friends in Pennsylvania and took some time to relax again. They live in the middle of pure nature and it is dimply beautiful to spend some time with them and at their house… if only April would understand nothing was that bad, that she had to bark as much as she did haha.

Saturday, December 1st the ride started. We took off to go to Wichita, Kansas, because my parents are visiting us in San Francisco and we had the choice to either go above Kansas or below and we said we‘d take some time off and visit all my friends and hostfamily and that was really fun!

That also seemed like enough time off. We‘re on our way to San Francisco now, where my family is arriving. We do have quiet a few miles / kilometers to go, but right now we‘e driving throzgh the Rocky Mountains, and that is absolutely besutiful! When I was an exchange student I remember skiing in Colorado, but I am not too sure if we went to the Rocky Mountains.

We‘re planning to be in California tomorrow evening and then we‘re excited to welcome my family there. <3

San Francisco we‘re on our way!!!