Je suis Susi – Part 4

Susi will be my niece’s nickname for a long time, it suits her well #Stay with Susi.

Their final destination is Frankfurt Airport, distance from Colmar to Frankfurt is a bit too far, too much car seat time for Susi. Therefore Sissy and Schwager spontaneously decided to stop at Baden-Baden – stay one night in Heidelberg – next morning Frankfurt Airport.

Susi woke up just in time for Schwager to make an exit from the Highway to Baden-Baden. Priority: Susi!

DM has a baby changing corner, complete with wipes and diapers sizes. From all the sizes on the below shelf available, of course Susi’s size was empty!

Credits needs to be given though, it’s my first time seeing a changing station in DM #Thumbs up.

After Susi has changed, we were more relax for sightseeing and lunch.

We walked passed one museum, making fun of the Peaky FUCKING Blinders! #Arthur’s voice. The fans would know it, the Faberge Egg’s scene.

We were very happy at Baden-Baden, not sure why? maybe just because the name is Baden-Baden 😉 we stayed there longer than we planned. Jumping on the stones, visit the church, had ice cream- I ordered Casis, don’t do it, when in doubt, chose Hazelnut #Sissy wejangan.

Suits ourselves, continue drive to Heidelberg. It was a Saturday afternoon, Heidelberg was packed, I meant packed packed PACKED PACKED!!! I still didn’t do the justice of how packed it was. People everywhere, all parking place were full so full to the point we were waiting on the line to get into the Parkhaus. One car out from the Parkhaus = one car move in from our line and so on.

What do we do while waiting? called our Hotel to ask if they have a Parking Place. The receptionist asked under which name the rsvp was made. Only for us to hear “I can’t find your name, please just come here and we will sort it out”

In the meantime Schwager check his mails, we booked the wrong date! Let’s just carry Susi with Björn, go to Hotel maybe they have free room for tonight.

All three we went, no free room. We asked her if there is something today, to this she answered, “nothings happening, it’s just normal Heidelberg on a weekend”

Me and Schwager went to few hotels & restaurants nearby asking if they have a room: zero squared. Only then we realized our attempt to stays at Heidelberg crashed in front of our eyes. It was a sea of Menschen, impossible to find a hotel here.

Let’s make a cut, quit Heidelberg, snap some pictures here as our hotel was exactly on the city center, this is the only chance we got haha so we could say we already went to Heidelberg 😉 The focus at this moment is to find a new hotel for tonight somewhere else. Get out from the Hype-Heidelberg.

Schwager kept driving on the highway direction of Frankfurt. We will passed few cities beforehand. When we read some name like Weinheim, Heppenheim, Bensheim, search on Google- Hotel.

I felt like a Detective in the movie, with 3 phones + 1 GPS looking which directions should we go, should Schwager took an Exit to any Heims-City or keep going. I said the hotel name, Schwager put it on the GPS, responded “no it’s another direction” next, next, next we were like that for def under an hour, although at that time it feels like forever. We do have Stau so Schwager can type something on the GPS.

The call was always “Hallo, wir sind 3 Erwachsene und 1 Baby. Haben Sie zufällig heute ein Zimmer frei?” always got replied “Nein, tut mir leid” fuck fuck fuck! No, don’t take exit on Weinheim as there is no hotel anyway, keep on the lane to next city, Heppenheim. Sissy entertaining Susi or keep feeding her banana. The stakes are high, we all knew the moment Susi cries it’s game over.

We kept driving directionless or we gonna end up at Ashley and Ongky’s couch haha I swear if it’s only 3 of us, without a doubt we would slept on the car, doesn’t really matter, go to a restaurant, use the facilities, we already got spot in the Parkhaus anyway, next morning go to Frankfurt Airport earlier to use their shower room. Since it’s not possible, keep focus!

Just to add some tension, the Benzin could only fit for 60km left. AHA! icing on the cake #face palm. It’s getting dark too hahaha strike after strike after strike, give it full gas to our last day. Relax? what’s that? #Hold my beer.

First priority sofar is unfruitful hotel searching, now our second priority is catching up with our first’s, which is to find the Tankstation. Took an exit, fuel some Benzin, next to it there is a McD, Sissy said “let’s sit down, we need to eat something”

We were not really a big fans of McD but at this point we were already desperado haha

We were still calling many hotels near by to no avail. We know we needed to be in big cities. It’s logic, no way in hell all hotels in big cities are full. The situation now is Susi still happy, we all are full, we are secured. The -Heims are small cities maybe the kind of hotel was family own which only have 4 rooms, that could be one of the reason.

Schwager called one last hotel in Darmstadt, hole in one! We got direction on where to go, finally! Now I look back realizing of how calm we were actually. We were just in disbelief or denial phase but not panic since we all aware there will always be a hotel for us, it’s just how far should we drive. What the hell is happening on this Saturday, is it Oktoberfest? yes it’s the very first day of Oktoberfest but we are not in Münich, why would be the reason of this full-ness?

Btw if you wonder how Susi was doing when we were unter der Druck setzen? She was soooo calm the whole damn time! didn’t scream, she even slept! that makes a loooottt easier. I was very very very proud of Susi for being so considerate as if she understood the situation.

Susi was so happy in the new, bigger hotel 🙂 Plaza Western PLUS you saved 4 asses that night! We will never forget you.

We slept so damn well, happy to have a refreshing shower in a big bathroom. Overall, this hotel is better anyway than the small hotel in Heidelberg.

Checked out is at 12, distance from Darmstadt to Frankfurt Airport was only 20 minutes. My luggage is already done, Sissy hasn’t finished hers. She can’t find her legginggggg yet it’s already time to check out. In order to not get a late check out fee, we just checked out first the re-open Sissy’s Koffer in the lobby haha! Schwager started moving Susi’s travel cot or some other Kram to the car on by one. I played with Susi, meaning: Susi is eating my handy case while in return I got Susi’s headphone. At some point I ask “why Susi only wear diapers?” “Where is her pants?” the hectic has taken all of us, here wear the yellow one! Now we all are decent.

Off to Frankfurt Airport. We were all in one toilet in Baby Room in Airport until we got a knock haha All in! It takes a village 🙂 It was amazing that I met them 3X within one month, always come and go, one weekend, next week and one full week. It was so hard to be parted with this kleine Mote since she’s very menggemazkan hhmmmm.

I witnesses the moment she articulate Papa, Dada, played “hide and seek”, peekabo, screaming, number 2, mingkem, cengegesan. So many once in my lifetime memories created and stored innerhalb der kurzen Zeit I have with small Susi. Next time I see you, you’ll be already able to walk, will be very seru!

Big big big thank you for Sissy and Schwager to include me on their trip. I’ve seen + been on tons places because of you. We had so so so much indescribable fun, I’m very happy 😀

Danke – Merci – Terimakasih – 谢谢

么么哒 Kuss

May the force be with our for our upcoming trips

#When you know, you know 😉

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Je suis Susi – Part 3

Morning walk with Susi to the Hay, saw horses, wore Flannie together #Matchy matchy. We coincidentally met our Landlord, at first she spoke French to us, none of us understood here, we can’t say Je suis Susi or whatnot right. Schwager replied “Allemand” then she strike a conversation auf Deutsch with French accent. Whoaaa felt like home! it’s very useful to know German hay!

Second try of sightseeing in Colmar. We had our best ice cream so far. Kept coming back to the shop, from three Kugeln on a Becher to one Kugel on a cone to two Kugel on a Becher. The more Kugel in one purchase desto billiger, we should’ve have done the math pffff. Don’t worry, we didn’t overlook Susi, we also gave her some tiny bits 🙂

At some point, the beauty overwhelmed us, let’s drive home, we have some Boci to played. Put Susi to nap, while I prepared our Boci. We made our own rule, hit the ball to the stick. We were laughing a lot because Sissy didn’t even aim, she just hit randomly. It took her 6-7 tries on one stick before she get the grip out of it. See the glitch in Matrix where we laughed the same way 😀 We closed our Boci game after 3 rounds and had our kind of photo session.

It was our last night in this AirBnB, very peaceful, I like the idea of going to Supermarkt, cook at home, eat in the Patio until…. we got unwanted guess. Schwager suddenly said “Hello Buddy!” my back was facing the so genannte “entrance” therefore my first response was who the hell is Buddy coming in this hour?!?! Should I run? break the plate, take the fraction of the plate? In my mind it’s a lost person or thief, be aware it’s dark plus not to mention the obvious, we were in the middle of nowhere. Can you guess who is the Buddy he meant? it’s someone’s dog haha all good! he must have been smelling our food.

Sun rises, we didn’t want to leave the Tiny House but we have too. We need to leave Je suis Susi country to be back to Ich bin Wurst. Not gonna lie, I feel so good to be back to Germany haha the country where I can speak the language!

Before we moved to Wurst, I just want to clarify something. Susi ist the niedlichen version of Sausage or Sosis in Indonesian and here is the blatant proof of “why” 🙂

#Which one should I eat?

So far seems like a relax day closing our trip hey? just wait, it’s about to reveal sooner than later 😉

Alsace, you’ve been good! Merci!

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Je suis Susi – Part 2

Back to Susi! can’t be parted long from the cheeky chunk of meat 😉 Our next destination is Colmar. In between there is a castle called Chateau du Haut-Koenigsbourg, our pit stop.

Where to park? There were many cars parking on the so genannte “Parkplatz” 700 meters before the Chateau, we ain’t gonna park there, noone gonna carry Susi for 700 meters, proceed drive further. We parked 200 meters away, with this distance ist Susi tragbar #Agreed!

Susi was very aufmerksam the whole time, look here and there as if she understood everything whilst zip her mouth hmmmm or pull my hair.

The Chateau is quiet refreshing, was a good decision to stop there. We had a noice lunch at the Chateau’s Restaurant, looked at the cakes, yep we got it too! Susi had a Kindersitz with a little marbles on it for playing. She’s doing super great!

Before we continued our journey, she need to have a new diaper. Oh diapers! Remember I bought her diapers the day before right? it was the damn wrong one, there are two types heyyyy, the real diapers with straps or the pants diaper. Of course I bought the pants diaper which was meant for babies who has been potty trained. How did we changed her pants diaper? #Disaster! Went with Sissy to the bathroom, boah! Sissy said “hold her, hold her” I looked on the other side saying “my hand is holding her body, I think it’s her feet”

She managed it in the end, out from the loo, I felt I was grasping for air, wanted to put her back to either Baby Björn or Pram until she realized there were one dot of residue on Susi’s leg, Sissy scream “Bebesup, Bebesup (read: baby wipes), gimme now now now” Schwager searched for it, I tried to pour water to her leg. I don’t have any water on my bottle left but Susi does! Took her bottle who’s already Childsafe approved, you need to suck the straw, only then the water will come out. It won’t work by turning the bottle upside down hahaha! Well, at least I tried!

What’s more important is…. Susi is now clean, safe and sound, aman sentosa. Get going, makes our way to Colmar-Adjacent.

We need to turn around 2 times as google mislead us. Our second accommodation was in fact in the middle of nowhere, very very very countryside like a tiny house with everything you need! Never have I experienced it! Adults are happy, Susi is happy, everything just fell into place, we need this goddamn relax to close our trip #Slow life.

I chose to sleep on the sofa, it was only around 20:30. Sissy and Schwager decided to have something to eat, yet they rather eat it inside on the small round table next to the Sofa or my feet (if I lay down) than outside on the Patio. What a view they could have.

They prepared the evening + food, closed the curtain, there is still some gap. Schwager did a DIY curtain to block the morning sunniesssss. Hmmm still not enough, moved the table and chair where they supposed to eat, into other side to be able to hold the hanged the clothes. Looks good, all bedeckt…. but…. where will they eat? Right next to my face had I sleep in, so I ate too hihihi

Next morning, went to visit Schwager’s relative in Colmar.

Oh this City is welcoming me! Hello ladies and gentlemen, my name is Mar-Lyn. The Col is on my left hand side which is not something you need to worry about 😉

The food was good, the location is in the middle of city center. Susi is having her fancies Kindersitz ever! All went well!

Will we get a full relax to close our trip though?! That’s a mystery we were about to unfold, brace yourself 😉

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Je suis Susi

We need to get ourselves used to “Bonjour” “Allemand” since we are in French bzw. Strasbourg!

Wawa booked an apartment which is much much much oh sorry we need to say beaucoup beaucoup beaucoup bigger than our pervious Unterkunfts, it’s also in a center-adjacent area. Susi (we are in French, do as the French does, not saying the word S in the end) and I got our own room… although she sleeps in a travel cot on the floor nevertheless 😉

It is boucu boucu boucu hot heyyyy!!!! at the same time boucu pretty! Were totally overwhelmed by the beauty of Strasbourg. Owing to the fact that none of us eingecremt, we went inside the cathedral to “hide” from the sun for a bit.

No…. it won’t cut it…. the heats makes us feels tired, Susi’s too, we decided to go back, do a bit of nap. Snoozed until I heard Susi’s laugh or her crawling sound. The cheeky baby has woken up 🙂 in another word, we need to transfer into “go go go” mode before she shut down again in 3 hours. Clock is ticking! Change clothes, wash face, sunscreen!

Our first destination is La Petite Alsace, instead of following Google maps, we were back to ancient times, pay attention to “sun time” as in where is the shade?!?! the path with shadow is the path we choose.

Oh ice cream, you are so delicious! We had three scoops of ice cream in one Becher. Susi was with her father on Baby Björn, I was taking her pram, left Wawa who’s in charged for feeding us the ice cream, shouldn’t have trusted her, she did cheat sometimes. For example “OK, last Chocolate” “No it’s not, there is still some spoons left, how can it be the last? it ain’t the last scoop yo” #I didn’t born yesterday 😉

Bridge!! you protect us!! we saw two dogs swams on the water, cathing balls, taking sticks, cool down… how I… still not want to do that haha I know it’s very hot yet not to the point I’m gonna jump into the water #facepalm. Few more steps later, I witness something really cool science in this canal. A tourist boat went in between two doors, then the level of water raised until it’s enough for the front gate to be opened so this boat can get through. It’s pretty cool in real life. This La Petite Alsace is very picturesque 🙂 Love it so much!

I think we called it a day, were satisfied already, went back home, bought KFC!

The next morning, we had our learning curve from yesterday, went in the morning right after Susi’s woke up before her first nap to walk to the bridge. The sun wasn’t too strong at that time, no need for sunscreen.

As we walked, we passed again the yesterday La Petite Alsace… Hmm… the geographic of the bridge is right above us…. where is the damn stairs? how about Susi? don’t worry, we carry her! if she could say perhaps she thought “Hello you all Peasant, I’m a Princess”

Before her first nap is her very fresh status, Susi is so kissable. Being kissed by a baby is what I called win in life!

Wait it’s not the bridge we intended to go! don’t let this win distract from the real destination! This is the bridge, we let Susi explore the pavement.

Time for her and ours first nap! zzzzzz. On the second time we awake, we think…. a good lunch would be great, let’s search something. We were back to the cathedral alley thingy. I have just learned that food isn’t the priority for us, rather if a restaurant have a high chair für Susi #Princess.

Susi was a bit uncontrollable, not sure why, maybe too hot? She did calm down when she hear the street performance played some music for a while. Susi touched the pot that still hot for a baby, not for an adult, screamed, huhu she isn’t kissable again, she became cheeky! Grabbing everything, taking my glasses #kiddos!

That was it! our afternoon, went back again for our second nap 😉 yes! travelling with baby is full with up and down sleeping. I am not getting not enough sleeping time, I got it, just in a different way, the accumulated hours way

Third attempt! we went to a Museum close by.

Because Susi went back to sleep, I left in the Museum alone… out of nowhere, I got an Archimedes EUREKA! What exactly is that? that’s story for another time 🙂

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