My dad was in Germany in the Army, and he was just saying yesterday that he was upset that he didn't take that many pictures over there.   Since it was only like 20 years after WWII there was still a lot of things from it over there, and he just wishes he had taken pictures of it.  Like their barracks still had Nazi signs on it, since it was just a refurbished Nazi base.  And he went to the base that Elvis was at, and it was funny because it didn't really mean that much back then because Elvis was still alive.

aww I want to go to a working Victorian village.

I think we have places here that are like Pilgrim places, and Rendezvous that people dress up like the French Trading time.  I have been to one of those for a field trip and people sell their wares and throw axes and stuff.  Oh and then there is the Renascence fair.  That's always fun to go to. http://www.renaissancefest.com/MRF/info.html

I haven't been to Düsseldorf and I haven't see Where Eagles Dare. Sorry!

My mum lived in Germany in the 50s because HER dad was in the Army and I have seen pics but no Nazi stuff or anything like that. Actually she and I visited one of the towns she used to live in a few years ago and we recreated a couple of her old photos eg. outside her old house.

She also lived in Libya, now THAT would be interesting to visit. To go to Leptis Magna and see if I can find the same stuff as is in her old pictures. And then think about how 60+ years is not even that impressive compared to 1600+.

One of my mates is in Poland right now and just went to Auschwitz yesterday. I know quite a few people who have been there, but it doesn't really appeal to me. I visited a concentration camp when I came to Germany with school. And there are memorials all over town so I can get sad about the Holocaust etc any time I want...

I do like other less depressing bits of history though. I love those old working Victorian places and such. I've not been to Blists Hill although I have been to Ironbridge. I've been to the Black Country Museum, I loved that place when I was a kid. Except for the school cos I was terrified of the schoolmistress.

Did you guys have people visit your school dressed up and stuff as well? And also dress up yourselves for special history days? I always loved that. We had a Victorian day, a Tudor day and a 1940s day.

I thought it might have been the one, haha.

Our days were awesome. Tudor Day was great because we had a Tudor feast. We all brought in different food that at least slightly resembled what the Tudors might have eaten. I totally stuffed myself on cocktail sausages along with sugared petals and way too much ginger ale. Also I got to wear my absolute favourite outfit - my dad's Civil War reenactment costume. He used to play a Cavalier cannoneer at battles. Civil war was obviously a few decades later, so my mum altered the jacket a little bit. It was then really short, and I was wearing nothing but tights underneath. Showing everyone my arse the entire day basically. This would have been much better if I was older - say 18 instead of 8

Victorian Day I wore some long skirt and a blouse of my Mum's. (When I was a kid all mums had stuff like that. If I had a kid now, they would be screwed if they needed to borrow that type of thing from me.) We all sat with our desks in rows instead of the usual way, and we had pens and pots of ink, and wrote out sums of pounds, shillings and pence. Also especially for the day, I learnt the names of all the Bible books in order and recited them in front of the class, (I'm not certain why - it seemed like a Victorian thing to do?!) My teacher was very impressed. Then we had a baking demonstration from some people who tour schools to do that sort of thing. They were all dressed up in Victorian clothes too and they showed us how to make bread, butter and jam and then we all got to eat some and it was delicious.

We also had other themed days, like a Carribbean day when we were studying St Lucia (in which we made fruity cocktails and did limbo dancing) and a French day (in which we got to try snails, among other French things!)

I've always thought my school was a bit shit, I guess maybe it wasn't after all!

Aww your guys schools sound awesome.  We never did anything.  I mean there would be people that came in but not dressed up people, but like people that would explain how dairy farms work and stuff.  Then there was a person that taught us Rosemaling.  And we would dress up on Halloween and do costume parades.

Then in the 7th grade we had to do speeches dressed up as people that they were about.  And I was Pocahontas and Helen of Troy.

In High School we had one of the Van Trapps visit us.  That was great, she was cutest lady ever.  We had spam too at school whenever we had a football game against the team from Austen, MN where it is made.  They would fry it up on the second floor, and it would smell up the whole place.

I actually don't remember the millenium. I forgot that was even an event that occured when I was still at primary school! haha
I remember my dads work part we went to but thats it!

Can't wait to see more pictures!

I love rosemaling, I made a design of it once on a little doll house cabinet.

Shiloh you watch Rugby today? The ref was a ******. Although I was supporting Wales I felt sorry for Hogg and his try being disallowed. Bless him first game, he gets a try and the ref wont allow it. He was a good player. Speedy!

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Oh I meant to tell you guys.  I went to a social-ice thing that everything was made out of ice.  I got a martini in an ice glass.  But they had bacon infused vodka and bacon infused bloody marys but I didn't try any.

No I didn't catch the rugby today, I've been busy with puppy Moby.

Going caving tomorrow, how's that for a romantic V day I haven't been caving in a long time so I hope I'm still strong enough.

I love caves. I live the smell! Haha
I dunno whether I would like crawling through really smally ones though. I think I would panic. When I think about it I can already feel slight panic in my chest!

isn't this spamming as while, this is a dumb thread and should be closed because it's just a bunch of stupid shit