Too busy to blog!

Hello everyone, I just looked at the dates and saw how long it is since I blogged. I am sorry, but I have been too busy having fun to stop to write it all down! But now here I am and here's what I've been up to. My first exciting thing to tell is that we went to Frankfurt for a weekend to visit my friend Ariane, who has moved there. It was her 3rd birthday and Ariane's mummy Amaya and my mama made this special "Alina" cake for her. It took a long time to make, but a short time to eat. We had a lovely weekend with our friends and it was especially exciting because we got to meet Ariane's new baby sister Zoe, who was only 2 weeks' old! I liked her a lot, and if you want to you can go to Ariane's blog and see a picture of me holding her.

After Frankfurt it was back to Basel, where I celebrated Halloween for the first time. Some friends invited me to crash a Halloween party and I thought that sounded good so I dressed up as a witch and off I went. On the way there I asked Mama what you actually do on Halloween. She said you knock on people's door and say "trick or treat!" I said, "but we know these people, don't we?!?" And she said no! "So why do we knock on their doors?!?" I wanted to know, but she said she really didn't know because Halloween comes from America and she didn't understand it either. So, it was a bit strange at first but after a while I got the hang of it and quite liked going into people's homes and getting lollies from them!

Mama had to drag me away from trick or treating because we had a train to catch. We went on what I called the "sleep train" from Basel to Copenhagen. It was so cool because we had our own little cabin with bunk beds and a shower and toilet and everything. We ate dinner in the train restaurant and in the morning the train man brought breakfast to our room. I loved it.

We had 4 fun days in Copenhagen. One of them we spent at Experimentarium, a kids' museum with all these cool science experiments. We stayed for hours playing with all the stuff - here you can see me inside a bubble!

We also visited the National Museum in Copenhagen and I dressed up in clothes from a long time ago. It was funny because I had taken my shoes off to put on some others they had there and then I saw another girl wearing my shoes! She must have thought they were from the museum but really they were mine. I didn't think they were that old-fashioned...

Here I am pretending to be a knight. I also wore a medieval robe and pretended to be a viking on a ship.

I liked it at the harbour. I even saw a ship with a pirate flag on it there. I wondered if there were real pirates on board.

One of the days we took the train to a town called Lund in Sweden, to visit a friend of Dada's, who he studied with in Iceland but hadn't seen for 15 whole years. Dada's friend had a little girl called Lisa. I thought she was really nice, especially because she let me play with her toys. I'm not sure what she thought of me though.

After Copenhagen we visited Berlin. Dada had a conference there so Mama and I hung out together and with my babysitter Anna, who has moved to Berlin from Bonn. We thought Berlin was really, really cool and didn't want to leave when it was time go home.

But home wasn't too bad either. When we got back the annual Autumn Fair, or Herbstmesse, was still on in Basel. Dada hadn't seen it so we took him there one night and went on the merry-go-round and ferris wheel and played cool games where you win prizes. So much excitement and it's not even Christmas yet!