H-70 Nuremberg RAIN L H 65 L 54 RAIN H H 63 L 53 T-STORMS M H 75 L 57
L-56 C H 100 L 78
Bear update: The Bear says I Need A Better Sword Party. TR says, “The Goethe Pirate, alias Fatso, cheats with his toothpick sword.” Moose say, “What the hell do you think you do, Bear!” Lou says we will have a Goethe Is A Pig Party. We will serve Cracker Barrel Foods.
Tucson 101/77
Salzburg 66/56 RAIN
We woke up to sun. Will it last?
We woke up at 7:30AM. We got dressed and went downstairs to the restaurant party. There was a broad selection of eggs, sausages, cold meats and cheeses, rolls and pastries, sausages, bacon, orange juice, and hot chocolate, tea, and coffee. It reminds me of the other two hotel CP’s, nothing like ones in America. We left to head to the Dokumentation Center as soon as it opened at 10:00AM. We skipped the center. It was crowded with students and buses waiting to be let in. Instead we did the circuit around the lake. We saw the party congress hall under construction, the Grosse Strasse where the U.S. army landed planes, walked past the stands of the Zeppelin Field, and then saw the Zeppelin Field itself. We drove to Burger King for lunch. Kenny noticed that it had a Nazi eagle painted outside. We went back to the Zeppelin Field. Gary walked up to the podium. We went to McDonalds for ice cream. We went to get gas and buy water. Gary dropped us off at the hotel. He hurried back to the Dokumentation Center to see what postcards he could find. He could hardly find anything. They don’t sell proper postcards. Gary went downstairs to find out about the valet laundry and to mail postcards. We went back to the rally grounds to take a photo of the Bear, Kenny, and me and to pick up rocks from the eroded structure. We went to the beer garden across the street, the banhof one, and ate dinner. Then we went to the grocery store to buy water.
We ate lunch at Burger King on the outskirts of Nuremberg across the street from the Documentation Center and the 1930’s National Socialist Party rally grounds along with the famous Zeppelin Field where Hitler addressed the crowds. My son picked out an old, faded National Socialist eagle painted on one side of the building. It was barely visible. No one in all this time bothered to expunge it. It contradicts the “official sign” on the stands at the Zeppelin Field proclaiming that on April 20, 1945 the United States liberated the city of Nuremberg from the National Socialists. Seems a bit confused, huh?
Speer designed the Burger King.
Still no contract . . .
What next?
Lusitania Plot Corrections:
1)Dora should be collecting her nickels for the trolley rides
2)When they drive to BMC they should be driving the Lincoln Highway, not Route 30. They should see the Amish in buggies driving down the road. Incorporate rural scenes with red barns and signs that say, “Drink milk”. Describe the Allegheny Mountains as they climb over them with the terrorist tailing them.
3)Fog when Dora peers out porthole wondering if can contact parents. Warm air meeting cold North Atlantic seawater and can’t even make out the waves out her porthole. The terrorist has put a sign over most of her porthole so no one can see in and she can barely find a crack for peering out.
4)When Dora’s locked inside her cabin she feels that she’s going crazy being so alone and so thwarted. It’s emphasized and underlined by the whistling wind outside her cabin door.
She can’t get any sleep listening to the howling wind, tossing and turning, and thinking about the saboteur. It sounds like a nightmare.
5)At another point listens for anyone on the deck. Silent except for vibrations of ship.
6)When Edward first meets Dora she wraps comforter around herself, not sheet. Europeans don’t use top sheets. She also notices that double beds are like two singles pushed together.
7)Guests at the Verandah Cafe must make sure to wear shawls and outer wraps. And don’t wear hats! Make sure to leave those in the cabin because of the wind. Dora sees folks with blankets on their legs and wrapped around themselves enjoying hot tea, coffee, and steaming chocolate. Don’t make it look like a Southern California cruise! You’ve got to emphasize the fog, the rain, the winds, and the whitecaps out at sea. Only in the fair weather do guests sit out on the deck in deck chairs with blankets thrown over their legs.
8)no washcloths
Still no contract . . .
What next?
Captive At The Berghof corrections:
1)Change description of Cabinet Room at 10 Downing Street
2)Might mention Admiralty officer invited to Carinhall on the occasion of the Naval Treaty. Or mention there were other meetings that had already occurred. Goering could be talking to the navy officer in the background. Better yet say it already occurred and Hitler is using the event as an excuse to draw Edward in.
3)Helga mentions a French bed, no washcloths
4)Visit to Zeppelin Field in Nuremberg:
Dora swept into the Zeppelin Field and stadium by the National Socialist officials and Hitler’s entourage with Helga following i1n the rear. Photos flashing everywhere and movie cameras going as she is literally shoved along by hands reaching out for her as hears deafening. “Heil, Hitler!” Tries to hold onto sanity. Aware only as day turns to night of daughter in front of her carried by Linge right behind the Fuhrer himself. Also buoyed up by Edward’s presence behind her with his hand in the small of her back forming a joint consciousness against the incursions of the mob in her ear and trying to tug at her mind.
Forced up stone stairs amidst multitude of officials and up to the platform built to look like the Pergamon altar in museum in Berlin. Thomasina seems farther away. Tries to reach for her and hold her, take her away from Hitler, but she’s always turned down and ignored.
When turn on stadium lights for “cathedral of light effect” daughter seems to dissolve into a beam of light with Hitler. Outlined in light like Gods in a box of light separated from all ordinary mortals. Only Edward is left. She turns to him and complains. But he’s not there! Stunned, confused, panicky, alone. Thinks, What am I doing here? Nowhere to flee.
Thursday, July 19, ’12
1)Hilton Hotel Nuremberg room 126 426 euros
2)postage for postcards 3.25 euros
3)Burger King lunch 20.97 euros
4McDonalds snack 3.00 euros
5)Shell Station gas 40.01 euros
6)Shell Station water 5.22 euros
7)postage for postcards 3.00 euros
8)bathroom .50 euros
9)Museum der stadt nurnberg postcards, 2 books 32 euros
10)valet laundry 7 euros
11)Bahnhof Dutzendteich dinner 46 euros
12)Lidl groceries including kleenex, paper cups, and water 16.16 euros
14)grocery cart .50 euros
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TOT: $603.61 = $740.22
10)Amazon.com: cat and dog toys Fidelity Checking $12.53 dollars
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TOT: $752.75