THE FROG PRINCESS GETS DRIVING LESSONS!

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Yesterday, The campervan, Prince, was ready. Gina had a wonderful plan of how I would learn to drive standard. She made another beautiful event out of it.

First we went to the Audi,Volkswagon dealership where the Prince had gotten his new heart. (remember the tin man in The Wizard of Oz,who got a new heart?) He received a totally new clutch and a disc.

So I'm the frog princess, if you're just starting to read this blog, and I got my nerves thrown off a bit (even though I celebrated every fear,with a HURRAY!, and kept asking the angels to show me what's next!) by the driving experience with Prince on the way to the Licensing Bureau, the first day I did for the first time all of the below:

a. driving on German roads
b. driving in a city where I didn't know where to go
c. driving in a campervan which I had never driven before
d. driving a standard (that means shifting gears) which I had not done in years
e. driving back into Munich not knowing how I would find Gina's flat.

I realized on Friday morning, that I was experiencing fear. It was time to jump off another cliff. Gina knew it. I told her the feeling was looming over me, and I was certain, that in no time at all, I would feel really good about driving The Prince.

At the dealership, the Prince was ready. And a funny thing happened when it was time to pay. (funny, we noticed that everyone in the dealership acted totally different from a few days before. Everyone looked not present. NOT PRESENT AT ALL! and flustered and angry.) So I planned how I was to pay: the majority on one credit card and the remainder on another credit card.

Now let me preface this with..earlier that day, I had taken a certain amount out of my account to cover opening a German bank account and a few other things. Well the German bank had a glitch. After many very friendly conversations over the phone by people at headquarters, they figured out I was not a terrorist and they could give me an account. I thought for sure, I'd have that account by Friday. So interesting, they had EVERYTHING prepared for me, EXCEPT the account number! Reason: computer breakdown.So, I couldn't make a deposit that day.

So I had an extra 100 or so Euros. And at the dealership, my plan to pay with two credit cards worked out to a point. One credit card was accepted and so everything was paid for except 129 Euros. So I paid the remainder of the bill, with the money I had intended to put in the bank. I literally cleaned out my wallet!

Wow, the angels had it planned out to the cent!

So off we went! Gina drove first. After a little figuring out the gear pattern, we began driving. Gina demonstrated, and I realized that basically I had been driving correctly all along, only the Prince needed a new heart. So then it was my turn to drive and the Prince felt so great. Yes, I was somewhat nervous. Gina and I were very focused on the road and the shifting. Our destination: outside of Munich to a beautiful small lake in the forest on a beautiful sunny day. I began to feel like gear shifting was natural, and I was still nervous, so when we arrived at the edge of the lake, I welcomed the change to taking a walk around the lake and lying lazily on a boardwalk in the sun.

That evening, we came back to Rosie's house for a sumptuous dinner with Leon and Rosie. On the news was the story of the bombs found in the train station at Essen, in central Germany. I recalled how quirky my energy felt in the morning, and how the people at the dealership behaved.

We then watched "The Secret" about the Law of Attraction. It is THE movie to watch. I brought it with me. Order it by going to www.whatisthesecret.tv. When Gina, Leon and I reached her flat, I went out for a bike ride, and on the windshield of the Prince was a 1,000 Euro bill! and it looked so real! When Gina saw it, she said she had never seen this happen in Germany before! (it looked and felt like a REAL EURO bill, and it had an advertising message on the back. That's a big sign of land for me!)

I'm certain that the angels have plans to fund me for the next leg of my journey, as they always do. Hip, Hip, Hooray!