Teamwork

Today Carol and I engaged in a lot of teamwork with our French friends. As we were strolling through Hamburg, Carol saw some fruits (Knallerbsen) and pointed out that the buds popped when you step on the them. Naturally we wanted to try, just as one likes to pop bubble wrap. The problem was that the fruits were located behind a tall gate and out of reach.

Each of us first tried to poke our fingers through the gate to no avail. Then we tried a new strategy. I pushed the gate backwards toward the treasure. Nathalie grabbed a branch and pulled towards our group. Olivier reached in to grab the prize. Carol was security and comic relief and our resident expert, who would know what to do once we claimed our prize. We gave it great effort but were unsuccessful. Then Carol walked a little farther and found another part of the gate where we could get the Knallerbsen quite easily. The pop or crunch sound was music to our ears.

Later we went to PlantenundBlomen park and found all the water games. We shot water streams at the center of a pool in which a ball floated. The object was to get the ball between the goal and there were 4 water streams which needed to be guided to make this happen. In the end my team won with a score of 1-0 but it was a tough battle against the Frenchmen.