Posted on 01/05/2009 8:15:51 PM PST by Kaslin
Mika and his girlfriend Anna-Bell found on way to airport with lilo, swimming trunks and a witness for the wedding in tow
t is a dream that has been shared by lovers across the centuries – the chance to elope to exotic lands. But few would have been as bold and spontaneous as six-year-old Mika and his five-year-old sweetheart Anna-Bell who, after mulling over their options in secret, packed their suitcases on New Year's Eve and set off from the German city of Hanover to tie the knot under the heat of the African sun.
The children left their homes at dawn while their unwitting parents were apparently sleeping, and took along Mika's seven-year-old sister, Anna-Lena, as a witness to the wedding.
Donning sunglasses, swimming armbands and dragging a pink blow-up lilo and suitcases on wheels packed with summer clothes, cuddly toys and a few provisions, they walked a kilometre up the road, boarded a tram to Hanover train station and got as far as the express train that would take them to the airport before a suspicious station guard alerted police.
"What struck us was that the little ones were completely on their own and that they had lots of swimming gear with them," said Holger Jureczko, a police spokesman. He described Mika and Anna-Bell as "sweethearts" who had "decided to get married in Africa where it is warm, taking with them as a witness Mika's sister".
Anna-Bell told the German television station RTL: "We wanted to get married and so we just thought: 'Let's go there.' "
(Excerpt) Read more at guardian.co.uk ...
I think I first fell in love in the first grade.
OK now everyone else....
I wonder if the parents will be arrested for child neglect.
Yeah, but did you try to run off and get married?
See the happy couple here (Getty Images, so link only)
Hope not.
Naw, I doubt it. It’s not unusual for children in Germany to be alone at home while their parents work or go shopping
I remember being maybe six or seven and walking down the street with a friend, discussing pubic hair, what the hell was THAT all about, and how disgusting it was, and in that same conversation, I remarked how much I hated having to always wash up and wear clean clothes. I vowed when I was older, that I would wear whatever I wanted, when I wanted and it could have holes in it...and why do people think girls are so great...blah blah blah...
I’m serious...I remember this conversation! I remember the time of day and the part of the street we were walking down. Odd...
Then...I developed a crush on Vickie Heflin. Unfortunately, her family had an aggressive terrier that terrorized me, so I had to avoid her house, and couldn’t even do what we would call stalking today...plus her older brother (one year older than me) beat me up on a regular basis.
Hehehe...just the thought of me, a little dirtball with black plastic framed coke bottle glasses and a buzz cut...
How cute. Glad they got back home ok.
How cute. Glad they got back home ok.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
Sweet story, if a little scary to this Mama with a 5-year-old who falls in love with cute little girls himself.
Yeah, I still remember following Steve Gerber around the school playground, and the exact cool fringed suede jacket he wore... But I think I was the shyest girl in school. It was all from afar.
No. Once I realized I was in love I was afraid to talk to her any more.
What charming children. Thanks for the link.
When I was five my mother had to babysit the little boy across the street, whose mommy was in the hospital having another baby. In that week I fell in love with Brucie Blevins. He was an adorable child, an older man of six. For awhile he paid a lot of attention to me, but then his brothers started hassling him about me and he wouldn’t have anything to do with me, no matter how fast I ran or how high I could jump. Broke my heart.
It used to not be so ususual here. I was watching ET the other night with my kids and noted how Dee Wallace leaves Elliot and Drew Barrymore home alone at different times in the movie. I never heard any remarks about that when the movie came out in the early '80s but our society has changed since then.
I think we are all running scared now and attribute most of that to the 24 hour newscycle which thrives on gore and horror.
First love, Micheal Avardo (second grade) man I still remember how cute he was. I knocked him to the ground because he wouldn’t give me a kiss (the first time), gave him a black eye the second time. Then I gave up. Oh, well.
As a matter of fact I grew up in Germany, and I remember my parents going to the movies on Friday or Saturday evening, while my sister, brothers and I were by ourselves. We always asked them to bring us some chocolate from the movie theater
I had my first “tongue” kiss at six, which was basically the scene out of A Christmas Story with tongue sticking as far out as possible and *bop*, touch.
Even with minimal contact it was still deemed about the most disgusting thing ever invented in the world and grown ups were CRAZY.
Then we went about digging for worms.
I don’t remember the first time i thought I was in love.
But I do remember the time I made the amazing discovery that looking at boobies causes erections. Before that I had no clue why it happened. I must’ve been 5 years old and I was ogling my sister’s dance instructor. It was maybe a year later before I discovered that I was not the only one on the planet that suffered from that peculiar deformity(what a relief!). Maybe the only 5 year old though.
Oh wait. Is this thread supposed to be about romance and true love? Aw gee. So sorry. Didn’t mean to crash the chick thread with crude guy-stuff.
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