One Jewish weekend

Friday night I took the train to Bazel which is a little over two and a half hours which was fine because half way we stopped in Nuechatel and Shoshana got on. We got to to Basel (pernounced Bazel) and took the taxi to our weekend home. The people we were staying with know Shoshana's parents because they used to also live in Seattle. The know them from the Jewish community, so Shoshana and I were not quite sure how religious they really were.
Well as the door opened we knew, there were menorahs everywhere and hebrew books and pictures with hebrew written all over. The people we stayed with were extremely nice and told us to come back anytime. Saturaday was Shabbat, so we had to go to the Synagogue which was very long and I did not understand what was going on at all. We were also supposed to dress up so Shoshana and I, (who mind you, we both packed in five minutes) pulled something suitable together. After the Synagogue we went to a bat mitzvah and then back to the house for lunch. After lunch Ilana, the girl who was 20, took us into town where she showed us the city of Basel and some really nice buildings, the town is really very nice. Afterwards there was not much to do so Shoshana and I took a nap because on Shabbat you are not aloud to use anything electronic or buy anything which was quite interesting, so sleeping was the only thing to do. We took a good nap, woke up and got ready. We went into town alone where we had some great pasta at a small place and Ilana met us in town. The city was alive, people were everywhere and having a great time. We decided to go to a lounge/bar and had a few drinks, we were all getting a bit tired of the place we were in so we headed and got ice cream and walked around for a bit. Ilana had a going away party to go to so we went, it was a bunch of Jewish people about or age drinking and dancing around and having a good time, it was really fun, especially when we were taught a Jewish dance. Afterwards we realized that it was 2am and we had to be up early so we headed home and went to bed.
The next day we met up with a bunch of kids our age from the Jewish youth group and we drove to Germany for Europa-park, it is basically a mini Disneyland expect that the place is themed, and everywhere you go is a themed of a different country in Europe. We went on a ton of rides which was good for me because usually I hate big rides. I wore sandles to the park, because I always wear sandles, which nobody here seems to understand, and I actually think I was the only one in the park with them on. My feet actually got like glared at because of it....so weird. By this time we had been persuaded to go with a group of the boys from the trip to go on more and more rides. I went on one of the biggest rollercoasters and even the one that spalshed into water at the bottom. Be proud, I have a fear of heights and that was definitely a challenge. They were all very nice, and extremely funny. They asked us a ton of questions which was fine because we were used to it. Sadly the day came to an end and we all got on the bus and headed back to Basel. Shoshana and I both took a nap on the bus to catch up on sleep the night before.
When we arrived back in Basel we said our farewells to both the youth group and the family that we stayed with and got on the train.
After about a half hour a girl got our attention and asked if we were from the States, her name is Lindsey and she is from Oregon. The three of us talked forever it seemed like, she too lives in Neuchatel with Shoshana so they both got off before me. Lindsey is a very nice girl and she is going to be at the wine fesitval this weekend in Neuchatel, where I'll be going so we will get to hang out with us. Who said threes a crowd?
I have started working on my online classes this week, and am stressfully hitting myself in the head for not ordering my books sooner. I still have no laptop of my own so I will continue to use greets. AHhhhhhh I still love it here.

Oh quick funny story:
On our flight from Chicago to Dublin the guy in front of me kept looking at my feet and Shoshana and I were like ok what is he doing? Right? And then he goes 'nice color' I had no idea what he was talking about until he pointed at my feet and he was talking about my bright pink toes. It was extremely awkward.