Berlin

So we took a bike tour of Berlin with Fat Tires and it was a lot of fun

My birthday

we had a BBQ and I got to see everyone else so it was great

Chemnitz

we have our home stays now

Buchenwald concentration camp

A concentration camp near Weimar, Thuringia, Germany. Built in July 1937, it is one of the largest and first camps on German soil.

Bad Windsheim

Bad Windsheim is a historic city in and pretty small and walled off

Chiemsee - Munich

So an excursion to another one of King Ludwig's castles

Salzburg - Austria

Went to Neuschwanstein Castle and then off to Austria, but we only got to see a little bit of it. It is Mozart's home I believe.

Lucerne (Switzerland)

Capital of the canton of Lucerne
A very touristy place and we visited the chapel bridge

Switzerland

So today we went to one of the places where  In Her Majesties Secret Service was filmed. It was all the way up in Lauterbrunnen one of the Swiss Alps and we had a great time ordering food in a restaurant that rotated while you ate and we could see the clouds.

Bern and Interlaken

So we went to bern today and also took the longest alpine slide that was a lot of fun except for the hilarious episode I had with calling some German boys cute and thinking they didn't understand English. Yeah, I'm pretty sure they understood English all right. Anyhow, we also saw an outdoor play that was about Wilhelm Tell and I think I may have fallen asleep.

Heidelburg

So we went to this castle on a hill with a major incline and the castle had a big old keg which claimed to be the biggest in the world. The Germans must love their beer. But we also unfortunately lost Janna but then she was found again.

Germany day 1

So we went from Minneapolis to the flight to Frankfurt and it was a pretty long flight but everyone seems to be excited. It unfortunately rained when we got there and we had a boat ride and met some really great scottish people who were making keychains. They accents were awesome.

We actually departed for Germany on Monday June 13, I had to get up at 4:30 a.m. to get to our high school parking lot since we were departing at 6 am to head to twin cities on a bus. We got there and left for our connection flight to Detroit at 1:15. Detroit to Frankfurt is around a 7 hours flight. I read a legend of 5 rings book and watched the in flight movie of the Wedding Date and the Pacifier. When we arrived in Germany, I bought two manga books, one of them a gift for Amanda. I was pretty excited that they had Manga in german. Then we waited 3 hours for the Michigan group because a luggage cart and ran into their plane as it turns out.

I really liked the Wedding Date

The Pacifier was really funny too

Our first destination was the charming village of Rudesheim where we went on a cruise ship and went down to St. Goarshausen.

Here's the map of the river:


We started from Rudesheim, which is a pretty little town with narrow alleys:


We saw the Lorelei rock, clock tower and watch tower from our cruise.

This is the Lorelei rock because a lot of boats sink due to careless sailors.

This is a typical view you would get from a cruise on the Rhine.

On the riverboat cruise I met Elih, Rudih, Holly and Fergins from Scotland, it was so much fun. I also met people from Taiwan and St. Louis, so people from all over the world.

The Castles were beautiful even though we didn't get to go to Marksburg, one of Germany best preserved medieval castles but it was still fun.

We ate curry at our youth hostel and I shared a room with Madlyn, Emma, Erika, Shannon, Tiffany, Janna, Laura and Susan. It was a blast even though the showers were cold. We had a gorgeous view from our hostel.