Post Adventure

I have now received three boxes from my wonderful mother, with things that I needed or left behind in Alaska. I figured it was about time to return the favor, so I got together all the best German goodies I could find and packed a box. I packed things in to some old shoe boxes; one box for my whole family, one for my brother's birthday. 

I got the boxes all wrapped and taped up in brown paper, filed out the necessary paperwork for Customs, and headed to the post office with my host mom. We got there, and my boxes were all something ridiculous like .1 grams overweight. So we took them back home and I unwrapped all of them and took some stuff out. In one of the boxes, I ended up opening a pack of gummies and my host brother and I ate half of them. (Sorry Joe!) Everything else was good, and I went to take them back to the post office. I kind of knew the way by this point, and it had stopped raining, so I walked alone. 

I made it there with absolutely no problem, but the post office was already closed. 

I started to walk back, but I took a wrong turn somewhere, and the 10 minute walk took me twice as long. It wasn't hard to get home once I found a main street, but little German neighborhoods are very twisty and confusing and no one was around to ask for directions. But all in all, it was a fun experience, and now my boxes are on their way. 

More soon.