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“My Ice Castles Ritual”

Based on a true story.

By Rachael FrazierPublished 26 days ago 4 min read
“My Ice Castles Ritual”
Photo by Lanju Fotografie on Unsplash

**What made it a ritual

Our visit to The Neuschwanstein Castle will forever be a memory held for me with my mother and my sister in law. I was visiting my brother and his family there in Kaiserslautern. That visit opened my eyes to see how good and spoiled we have it here in America. 🇺🇸 It also showed me how people were grateful for air and then life. We traveled very far. Through faithful prayers we could get anywhere. I give it to my father for his discipline driving there. I really was astonished and surprised about the door opening. Just the fact that I could travel there still brings spirit me overly joyed in astonishment. The story is true and I’m overly joyed. I walked there with my mother and another. I was so proud of myself. We had token the carriages up half way.We got half -way and rode the horse gliddales up half way inside the carriage that was the opposing cheap , safe , but fun. My parents are the best, once again. I was very much in love and felt like falling in love. What brought about that? The fact that 1️⃣ not everyone can make it up there safely. 2️⃣ not everyone can travel. Not everyone can come up and back down safely downward on a snowy hill. A lot really was going through my mind. I felt like a royal princess. Whose hidden prince had opened the door 🚪. I jumped in astonishment! It was really astonishing to me.

** It stuck with me,

And I kept one guy on my heart. He was a secret. I think it was to far. I had never felt the way I did when I was with him, and to travel to a foreign land was something I found out in needed. He was safely respectful of me. I loved that about him. He I tried a lot of attempts out. I always have to keep my guard up. We hadn’t spoken with old friends specifically me. So I heard I’ll get you when I get back to the states and it didn’t sit right with me neither 500 yards of continual terrorism again on 9/11!

** What a trip!

My trip was exciting and my brother and his wife were very caring and loving on me. The fun parts were with my mother when we went up to the castle. We got to go the mall and go 🛍️ shopping. I loved having the chance to shop and learning spending disciplines. I loved eating there. We had this chicken there from a restaurant fast food they( the Germans call it). I called it the 🐔 coop.

My Brothers House 🏠 **

I’m sooo grateful to GOD! That they invited us in and celebrated 2 Christmas’s ago. My brother bought his own house. Thank GOD for providence! What astounded me the most about the house was the build. It was his dream house i could tell. It had a wrap around staircase and an upstairs outdoor balcony. That you can go outside and see your neighbor on the other side of like a mountainside. It was like WOW!

Fun times**Fun parts**

Watching Jon’s hill being bad when he’s only known as good. What a hilarious movie at the ending .🍿 Watching fun movies. The movies were Faster with The Rock, another good movie with real ending. The storyline was really good and it was hard to watch. Some parts. I liked Moana, with my little niece Epi mama’s(mini)me.

Tough Call calls for Tough Times

With knowing that we’re in 🇩🇪 Germany. The history of that country sits on a great portion of people who were enslaved by hitler and his army. Lots of lives were lost. For a short second I lost respect in my heart for staying there . I really realize also that a lot GREAT peoples lost there lives. That man was cruel. The tough parts about the trip were being denied service at The Rammstein Commissary. We were denied service twice there. Why because we didn’t have a pink slip or a ration card to live there. They kept an eye on us in the end.

We as a whole got denied

At Rammsteins PX

At Rammsteins Commissary

Thankful points

Safe driving feeling like a team effort

To go back

Visit particular places

To feel that way go shopping

Go ice skating safely

Why not to go back**

The interference with “their land”

Being ribbed trying to leave Frankfort airport by a German lady. Never again

Left a permanent stain

What America does not need**

Another terrifilying 9/11

What America 🇺🇸 Does need//:

Cease to overcome

Overcome & cease the chains of slavery

Cease to overcome with agreement & togetherness

In agreeing in God’s love ❤️ in overcoming freedom

My yearly ritual since after all the fun encounters

To watch ice castles 🏰

To be a woman of God

To be a women of freedom and good oath and truth.

To know I’m a valued vessel and to know that anything is possible with prayer and with God. Knowing that things really do happen.

It happened to me

I saw something real.

I believed at stuck with it

I realize it s a valuable real thing!

Thankful & Grateful for safety

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