you have to know...

this is why i'll be missing BCN:

C/Asturias9 =)

CZECH it out!

Prague!

they say that it is..
one of the most visited cities in Europe
one of the most beautiful cities in Europe
¿Que piensas?

We arrived and it was gloomy outside, so then we left our hostel and started walking around. We made it 15 minutes down the road before it started POURING sheets and sheets of rain on us, without umbrellas, and wearing sandals. Barcelona would've been jealous because of the drought and all. So, the rain forced us into this cute little restaurant/cafe where we all warmed up with some soup (CHEAP goulash!) and waited it out. It rained the majority of the time, except for a few solid hours of sunshine, you'll see the fotos.

There was a huge language barrier here as well, I've never really heard anything like Czech, and we surprisingly found a few people who spoke zero english, so that was difficult for us. Czech cuisine isn't super distinct, but mostly just MEAT MEAT MEAT.. lamb and pork and the knees of certain animals, I don't know really, I mostly just stuck to pizza, sandwhiches, soup.

On our last day, we were so exhausted from climbing castles and circling the city, we found a mexican restaurant with 2 for 1 cocktails and AWESOME food. REAL salsa and refried beans and oh my it was so delicious. We entered at 5pm still light outside, and didn't realized how long we'd been in there until we left at 10pm and it was night! Either way, it was a nice warm environement filled with english speakers....and for 5 hrs of drinks and food... it was SO INEXPENSIVE! and for the most part, the city was very inexpensive compared to Munich, Barcelona and Paris anyways.

1 thing to note:
We were walking through a really touristy area and this woman jumped in between all of us and asked if we were American. And then she just started asking us how to change her flight because she needed to get to London and get out of Prague because she can't handle all the commies... she said she came from Russia and she hated it and now the Czech is just full of these damn commies and they are giving her the "heebie jeebies." We didn't really know what to say to her I mean, it isn't communist, and we didn't get the feeling of a commie country at all. So then we just sort of laughed to ourselves because she just didn't stop even after we told her we were visiters and she's like well where do you think the Delta Airlines office is, how can I call them. We gave her pretty good advice to go to the airport or use her hotel phone, but forgetting she so kindly reminded us, COMMIES. hahaha. it was pretty entertaining. I wish we would've directed her to the Communism Museum or at least mentioned it. Anyways...I'm sure she is safely back in her middle america commie-free home now. So now...

Here are some fotos and commentary, in no particular order...

streets of Praha

Surprisingly, the streets here were more cobble-stoney then Rome. Adam had bruised feet at the end of the trip and converse weren't an awesome decision on my part. It's nice to be back in my flip flops in BCN now...

Franz Kafka Museum. There is also a slightly more vulgar picture, but this will suffice...just use your imagination.

On the sunny day, we walked up a huge hill and found this secluded beer garden overlooking the city and the river.. There was a fun playground for kids. I'm telling you, Europe knows how to make 'em!

John Lennon graffiti wall devoted to peace. There are some pretty amazing stuff, mostly just people writing "peace and love" and "johnny and kayla were here." Either way it was this secret little wall hidden under some trees in a cool part of town under the Charles bridge. My favorite personal message was: "i love birds and trees and wales and my family."

Walking down the Charles bridge during "magic hour" and beautiful Praha in the back

So we did get some sunshine. And we needed an excuse to stop walking and rest our swollen feet. SO we rented a paddle boat! we got to tool around the Danube for an hourish. It was really awesome and we played chicken with other boats and freaked people out.

YA!

Pretty Pretty, Charles bridge and a little put put boat passin by

Adam and I on the paddle boat

On our walk up to the Prague castle, a lot of the building had plants growin all over it.

This is an astronomical clock. I kept calling it the astrological clock. We couldn't understand why everyone was standing there for 30 minutes waiting for nothing really. It made a noise at the hour, but I don't think I saw it move. Its neat looking. But why everyone was gawking.. who knows...

Communism Memorial. Very unique

The Jewish Synagogue. It looks like Aladdin's palace eh? We were waiting to see him come out on the balcony and greet us. Well we didn't get to see the inside even though the pictures looked equally amazing. But it was closed BOTH times we went, but we heard they were charging almost 15 euro to get in.. can they do that??

the 2 non-Jews posing in front of the synagogue

Hey Prague!

Well honestly, I am happy it rained. I've never seen such an incredible rainbow.. I mean TWO rainbows!

View of Prague from the castle, post rainstorm

AWwwww...Doesn't it just want to make you throw up? Well, here's a ouple picture for the parents. Adam's hair is getting obnoxiously long and curly. BUT don't worry, it'll be dredded in a couple weeks...

Thanks M and D for another awesome trip.. next up: Lisbon, Portugal!

a treat for ya'll

Ross and Adam (feat. Alex)...performing their version of:


Touch My Body (original: Mariah Carey)



"I know that you've been waiting for me, I'm waiting too
In my imagination I'd be all up on you
I know you got that fever for me 102
And boy I know I feel the same my temperature's through the roof

If there's a camera up in here, Then it's gonna leave with me when I do (I do)
If there's a camera up in here, Then I'd best not catch this flick on YouTube (YouTube)
'Cause if you run your mouth and brag about this secret rendezvous
I will hunt you down
'Cause they be all up in my business, Like a Wendy interview
But this is private, Between you and I"

I DARE YOU TO CLICK HERE!!

Ya es Primavera

Aiiii...it's finally spring time in the BCN and we have had some pretty consistent spring weather too! I have finally started wearing sandals and dresses again and wake up with a smile every day that the sun is out, and beckoning me to come play.... so when I'm not in class, I am playing in the sun. This is what I usually am doing...

BICING- this is a public, bike membership system that allows the sharing of city owned bikes through a card that you swipe at a station, collect a bike, go anywhere you want in the city, and when you are finished riding, drop it off at any other station with open spaces. Membership costs 24 Euro a year, SUPER CHEAP, plus I haven't had to take the metro anywhere (in the summer, the underground is unbearably hot and humid), which is way awesome because there is a bicing station in front of my house and in front of school, gracias a Dios!

PICNICING- There is an awesome park in the city called Ciutadella. It is huge and green and offers many grassy knolls to relax on as well as trees for shade and trees to climb. We have had a lot of May birthdays in our group of friends, so we have been picnic'in quite a bit. It is especially nice when Adam and my friend Derek bring their guitars and we relax, eat chorizo sandwhiches and watch this one naked guy pass us every hour or so. In the park there is also a lake where you can rent row boats and put-put around, a nice fountain to admire (under construction, what isn't in the city?) and a mammoth statue where you can find all the tourists, a zoo, an arboretum and lots more. It's a very whimsical park with diverse groups of people and is just a 15 min bike ride from home, downhill... again, gracias a Dios.

BEACH ing- not much to say here...except we cant take BICING here because the stations are always full on good days. I also don't have fotos because everyone tans nude... and my friends don't want to stumble upon their parts on my blog. sabeis?

TERRACE ing- A few of my friends are lucky enough to have a terraza on top of their apartment buildings.. this means that the roof, is a terrace shared by all the habitants of the apt edificio, free for anyone to do anything. Recently we have been utilizing this a causa de the beautiful weather, so sometimes we do our picnicing/pot lucking up there and sometimes it's just an excuse to be outside, play some music, watch the sunset (la puesta del sol) and have a drink with our friends.

PLAZA ing- Barcelona is the best. Since a lot of us are spending our last amounts of money on travel, we, a veces, don't like to go out to bars... so instead we hunt down happenin' plazas where we can drink 52 cent beers with a bunch of Catalans... some plazas have playgrounds and toys, others just have a good ambiance (buen rollo we spaniards would say) so especially with the summer weather creepin in, the evenings are so nice to spend outside. So, we do!

that's it for now, just a quick update on my life... here are a few more things that may interest you too...
-I am finished with school May 20th (minus one test on June 11)
-I have a 20 pg and 10 pg research paper to write before then, plus a class presentation, and 3 other smaller essays (fáciles)
-I leave for Prague (Czech Republic) on May 16th for 4 days
-I am going to the Primavera Sound Festival on May 30th in BCN, headlined by CAT POWER (!!!) and the Swell Season (if you haven't seen the movie ONCE yet, you MUST, academy award best song)
-My friend Hannah (from home) comes to visit on May 27th for 5 days
-I leave for Lisbon, Portugal on June 1st with my friend Hannah for 3 days
-I am planning one more trip in June.... possibly to: Spanish islands of Mallorca, Menorca and Ibiza, or to San Sebastian (northern Spain) or maybe somewhere in southern Spain

AND LASTLY:
I will be home (northern California) for: AMERCIA'S BIRTHDAY!!!! I will probably have a flight around June 30th so I will see you all in less the 2 months =)
In the words of Cameron: "America needs love too, she's all like, hey, I miss Karli, Spain quit being greedy"

Enjoy some spring time fotos until then, and you can expect another blog when I return from Prague!

deja and karli, having a tree party

view of the park from our tree

View of Barcelona from Ross' terrace

Here's one for the fridge, climbing some more trees with Adam

BICING.. that top gun song was definitely playing in my head

pot luck on the terrace for Derek's bday

picnic in the park

terrace, again

park, again.

deja-vu at the beach, not sure about her clothing choice

Happy 21st Birthday!

Yeeeeeah..
So I turned 21 in Spain, not too much excitement because the celebrations were a typical night in Barcelona except that all of my younger friends could be there too!

So..I needed there to be some kind of climactic something to fill the void of the usual, "FINALLY I'M 21 AND I DONT HAVE TO BE SOME 26 YEAR OLD FROM THE MIDDLE OF MINNESOTA," stoked about finally having another important use for your real I.D. feeling.

Something I've always wanted to do and almost accomplished for my 18th birthday, was skydiving..So we got a group together to do it! I'm even happier I waited because instead of driving to Lodi or some cow town outside Sacramento, we got to jump between the coast and the Spanish/French Pyrenees, how awesome is that?

There's no way to put into words the feeling of it all. My emotions of excitement, anticipation and nervousness were all having a huge battle inside every part of my body. We got there and I expected some long training videos, a bunch of awful waiting time before the jump. But once we paid, we were brought to a white board showing the order of events from when you jump to when you land, we got our harnesses strapped on, one more review with our tandem coach and within 30 minutes we were walking to the plane!

I was scared out of my mind the second before we fell, especially because I had to watch Adam go first and plummet to the earth. So we jumped, flipped turned a little and once I was oriented with up and down, I was overcome with happiness and a feeling of liberation. I forgot to breathe and think and all that, I was just flying through the clouds and soaring over the Mediterranean. They only thing I did think was if the chute didn't go up, I was too high to care. High, literally on adrenaline. Same adrenaline that kept me going for 8 hours later, my cheeks are sore from smiling, as are my abs and some other random parts of my body (??) Regardless, this was the most incredible thing I've ever done, EVER EVER EVER EVER. The second I got to the ground I was ready to do it again, although my brain probably couldnt've handled all the seratonine release.

My tandem guy was awesome too, he is from Belgium, asked if it was my first jump, he said it was his first also.. all that stuff and he made me feel extremely comfortable. At first he probably thought I was such a weirdo, when you forget to think and you just react, it's interesting to see how you handle it... for me, the only things I could say was "OH MY GOD" "THIS IS SO SICK," other adjectives like "TIGHT" and a few other choice words. But then on our way out, he asked to friend us on the internet, so now Laurent and I are facebook friends for life.

Alright, so without further adue (I've been away from english too long, I forget how to spell and speak) I present you with the video, which was a present from Adam and the group of friends that I went with.. They all chipped in to buy it for me and I am so grateful because I will forever relive that experience and all of you can just wait, watch and see if you too get sweaty palms and volcano cheeks everytime like me, cuz it is FREEEEAKY!

Enjoy, and happy birthday to me!
P.S. Thanks m and d!
P.P.S. We jumped from 13,000 feet. yiiikes!

Amsterdam

What do you think of when you hear Amsterdam?
This is what came to my mind:

(The Sin City of Europe, I´d say)

All I was really expecting from Amsterdam was a colorful city of drugs and prostitutes.. That´s true, but only in certain parts of the city, the red light district of course, sidestreets going this way and that, lined with doors and lights advertising the prostitutes. That apparently is a main attraction for tourists, walking through the district at night checking out the variety of women, (and there are definitely men too) but be warned, you are not supposed to take fotos, because the pimp is probably on the balcony above watching the passerbys, waiting to mess someone up if they take advantage of his ladies. We ventured through the streets briefly as we were really just looking for a cheap quick place to eat but more then anything, seeing these women on display was very sad. A lot of them wore some god awful makeup and their wardrobe choice made me uncomfortable, but I just don´t think I´ll ever be able to understand why people choose to put themselves in that position, and it´s even worse when you see someone entering the doors or exiting, because I was sad for those people too. I don´t know how appropriate it is to be talking about this but I just couldn´t get over how sad I was for these people, especially seeing the prices that are listed for each girl, I swear it ranged from 50E to 500E. ANYWAYS, what I was saying earlier....

Amsterdam is SUCH a beautiful city! The red light district is really fun at night, that´s where all the people are, but once you get away from that, you can get lost through this quaint little streets with the cutest flats/apartment building lining the spiderweb of canals that weave through the city. Our hostel was in an awesome location, everytime we went to "town" we had to cross over the canals and see paddle boats and other motor boats cruising under the bridges. Here is a foto of the canal at night:


Besides one day of chilly cold wind, we had sunshine and warmish (for northern europe in april) weather the whole time. For this, we had a lot of meals along the canal and outside and to-go so we could cruise around and enjoy the beauty of the city..Here are some fotos of the canal and some of my friends:




The Dutch are a really nice people....everyone was very helpful, and it was an added bonus for us because the majority of Dutch people speak English pretty much fluently. It was interesting to listen to Dutch being spoken because there are a lot of similiarities with English, and like German, every now and then you can catch an English word or a word that we use in the middle of it..

So back to our hostel...we stayed at StayOk Vondelpark, which was located right next to this HUGE and really beautiful park called..........Vondelpark. Since our touristy stuff was limited to the VanGogh museum and the Anne Frank House, we spent a lot of time picnicing and relaxing in this park.. There are various little ponds and trees and flower beds and bike and pedestrian paths and something for everyone. We especially were attracted to these sideways trees that grew over the ponds and we found ourselves very often hanging out in the trees, here, look:


The transportation system in Amsterdam is really amazing. The heaviest traffic is due to the mass number of bikers that weave in and out and will NOT stop for pedestrians. Most people go to Amsterdam and end up renting bikes because it really is the easiest way to get around, the streets are practically designed for them, and there is a parking garage (multiple levels) just for bike parking, SO, the boys one day, while we went to the Anne Frank House, rented bikes and tooled around the park and the city over the bridges and followed the canals. The tram system is also very effective, but if you are a tourist, you have to know that they are pretty much SILENT trams, and they will honk if they are about to hit you but otherwise they come out of nowhere and just speed past you. No one got hit while we were there, but I´m sure some people have before, OUCH. Here is a foto of a cute orange Dutch bike in Vondelpark:


So some touristy stuff that we did was go to the Anne Frank House, which we had to wait in line for well over an hour, but being there was very real. We got to enter through the bookshelf which hid the door to their apartment and as you go through each room there are some fotos, diary entries and videos playing.. Most of the windows had black shades over them, just like they were when the Frank family lived their, above the father´s company factory. Things I learned about Anne Frank´s story that I either didn´t remember or never knew were: Someone secretly betrayed the family and told the German police about people hiding in their building 263 Prinsengracht, and investigations post-war still haven´t uncovered who was responsible for the betrayal. I had also forgotten that the father, Otto Frank was the only one to survive concentration camp and after he was free, he returned to Amsterdam and his secretary who was not taken by the police gave him Anne´s diary that she had been keeping, so he published it and was very active in making the apartment a museum that focuses not only on events of the past but the prejudice and discrimination that continues in our world today. Last thing: Anne Frank went to Montessori school, just a little shout out.
(I didn´t get pictures of the Anne Frank House because I don´t think youre allowed to for one, but even if it is allowed, I was too wrapped up in being there that I actually sort of forgot, plus, I think everyone should just go see for themselves, it is just something that we all have studied and a very important part of our history)

The Van Gogh museum was also really interesting. It isn´t as big as I thought it´d be, but it is set up in a very unique way. You are guided through the museum in chronological order of his life, and you can see his different styles as they changed from when he first begain painting to when he was in the psychiatric assylum to before he died. And as you entered into each era of his life, there was a background story and told you all about what he was doing at the time, who he was influenced by, etc etc. I also didn´t take pictures here, because I could not. I wish I could´ve spent more time in the museum because of course his artwork is incredible BUT there were just too many people and it was frustrating to wait in line and move at a pace that´s not your own. I did learn how to pronounce his name in Dutch, so remind me to tell you when I get back, it sounds like you have something stuck in your throat when you say it correctly.


Ok so there are a few other things that Amsterdam is known for and they are:

WOODEN SHOES!
oh those Dutch.

HEINEKEN BEER! (brewed in the ´Dam)

..and lastly are the BEAUTIFUL tulips everywhere.. they have this huge tulip garden just 20 minutes or so outside the city and in April they are supposed to be in fool bloom and so colorful and wonderful.. unfortunately it was going to cost us almost 40E to go, so we hung out in the park instead for free.. but, because tulips are my favorite flower, I was determined to buy one and carry it around. Well that was a difficult task because they only sell them in bunches (for cheaper then anywhere else but still what was I going to do with a whole bouquet?) or you can buy one souvenir wooden tulip which is lame. So, God was just so down with finding me a flower that I walked into a souvenir shop just to look around and I saw a few tulips sitting in the back in a sink and I asked if I could buy one (PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE and I explained to her how bad I wanted just one and she thought I was weird for sure...) but she ended up just giving me one really beautiful flower! So I carried it around and it made me very happy then when we were at the train station on our way out, these really obnoxious Americans dropped their bags and pointed at me and were like, LOOK OUR FIRST TULIP! LOOK HOW CUTE... as if I didn´t understand that they were 1)pointing at me and talking about me and 2)that I understand English. So I just stood their waiting to see if they´d continue pointing at me and then the lady with the fanny pulls out a camera and starts taking pictures of me. So then I decided to make things funny and awkward and I posed for her then finally spoke in loud english, DO YOU WANT A PICTURE OF THIS FLOWER? and then they laughed and said oh we are just so happy to see our first tulip, then I said, you´re from Minnesota aren´t you...I´ve been to Minnesota once in my life and for that I will never forget that accent, also because Bobby´s World is amazing. So then I made her take the flower and take a picture with it, she was so happy, and I guess I just made her day because I let her have it, and told her to just put it in a vase and take care of it, because it was just starting to open up in the sun. And yes, they were from Minnesota, CALLED IT!

Ok, that´s it for now. I really really have a love for this city, it was just so beautiful and Dutch people make me really happy. I couldn´t stop thinking about how Caleb needs to move here so he´ll fit in with all the tall blonde folk. I think everyone should visit Holland for their own personal interests, but Amsterdam is totally worth a visit.

Munich, Germany

On a very blizzardy and cold day we arrived at our last city of the trip, München, Deutschland. We spent 4 nights here and we were so fortunate to have visited some really incredible sights. Our first day began with yet again, a lunch suggestion by our hostel...They sent us on a nice little walk in the rain (without an umbrella, of course mine broke in Budapest, the 2nd day of the trip) and we found ourselves at the Augustiner Brewery, a very warm and cozy beer hall inhabited by mostly locals. My lunch was the best bratwurst I´ve ever eaten and just to note, I did not like sauerkraut before this meal...


The rest of the day was very relaxing, I actually didn´t feel very well later on in the afternoon and I think the previous 8 days were finally catching up to us, because we were exhausted too..So we relaxed in our hostel, watched a little German dubbed television and had a late dinner at a restaurant just around the corner. We saw a little of the city the first day so here are some pictures!

Theatinerkirche
(Adam makes fun of me for looking up the name of this building, but I was just curious!)

This is sort of an entry into the center of the city or Marienplatz, a very touristy plaza in el centro...Such a cool building though, huh?

We climbed a lot of staircases in a neighboring church to get this awesome view of the Glockenspiel in Marienplatz and the city behind it

Another view of Munich from above!

I´m not sure if I mentioned this already, but this is how we passed the time on train rides and downtime.. we played an extended version of Rummy 500, which by the end of the trip was somewhere around Rummy 6000...This is the train ride to a little town, 2 hoursish outside of Munich, called Füssen.. This a day trip we took to go see the Neuschwanstein Castle which was the inspiration of the Disney castle!! The train ride took us through cute little Bavarian towns, with rolling hills covered in snow and again, there were some pretty epic clouds. The scenery was very beautiful, but it honestly did not compare to the view of the Castle that we had been anticipating the whole trip...

This was another castle that we got to see on our hike up to the Neuschwanstein.. It is the Hohenschwangau Castle which means, "Castle of the High Swan Country"

Then we hiked up a huge hill to get to the Neuschwanstein...Adam and I chose not to buy tickets to go inside, we just wanted that incredible view that we had heard about.. We were walking around the outside of the castle when Adam pointed out a bridge across the mountain and we looked closely enough to see that there were people on it! So our next adventure was attempting to find that bridge through the snow covered mountains.

It ended up being a 30 minute walk up basically this...It was very tranquil for the most part, not really crowded with people...Adam did make friends with a group of three 12 year old German kids, who challenged him to a snowball fight...I got some of it on tape, and you can see for yourself, but I´d say the kids dominated Adam =).... unfortunately we had worn our tennies so our feet were a little wet from the walk, but it was totally worth it because this was our reward....

Photo taken by Adam... This is Swan Lake and runs right behind the Castle... In order to get a photo of the lake and the castle, you have apparently have to be a professional mountain climber and be a lot higher then the bridge allowed us.. either way, we still got an awesome view...

There it is! The Neuschwantsein Castle, can you see the resemblence with the Disney castle?? It´s there!

After asking about 5 different people, we finally got a shot of us with the castle in the background... Being on the icy bridge was making me really naucious so I was ready to make the descent back down the hill.

The next day in Munich was definitely not as uplifting as the Neuschwanstein Castle...We made a visit to the Dachau Concentration Camp, the first one built in Germany during WWII... When we first got to Munich, we weren´t sure if we were going to be up to it, because, like most people who have been to a WWII/Holocaust memorial know, it is depressing and almost just puts a damper on the day... but then realizing how important it is to be able to experience something that is part of our history, and somethign we´ve been learning about since we were little, we decided to go. The town of Dachau is very quiet and almost sort of eery, it probably didn´t help that we went on a very overcast and ugly day. The camp is extremely large and we self toured ourselves around the courtyards where they used to do roll call, the old living quarters, and we also walked through the crematorium/execution building. The signs direct you into the first room, where the prisoners were told was the waiting room for the showers.. Then the next room is where they were told to undress because they were going to have a huge group shower... The next room has holes in the ceiling and drains on the floor that could resemble a shower, however, in actuality it was the gas chamber where they executed a certain amount of prisoners at a time. It was hard walking through these rooms, my body was covered in chills and I could not spend much time observing the ovens where thousands of bodies were cremated. Although it is not easy for anyone, I am glad we made the trip, because it is so important to be awar and understand our world history in order to make sure our world moves in the right direction towards peace.

Entrance to the Memorial: "Work Brings Freedom"

A Memorial for the prisoners/victims of Dachau Concentration Camp

Another memorial

As I am writing this I am making myself more confused on what day we did certain things, I may have left some things out, but on to the last day..... I woke up extremely exhausted this day, and as a result of walking so much for 10 days straight my feet and legs were aching like crazy. The sun was out though, so Adam convinced me to take another walk with him to Olympic Park... On the map, Olympic Park was not so far from our hostel, DEFINITELY walking distance.. in reality, and perhaps we took the longest route possible, but we probably walked a good 4 miles to finally end up at the park.. it was a very strange park, lots of hills, weird, old-modern(that doesnt make sense but..) buildings with weird roofs and spaces.. It didn´t seem large enough to accomodate the mass number of people involved in the Olympic games, but, somehow they did it. There was no baseball field, and as Dave informed me, the reason is because baseball was not an official game of the Olympics until ´92 (I th ink). Either way, it was a beautiful day and Adam took an AMAZING foto of the olympic needle..LOOK!

So cool!

Old-Modern buildings, does it make sense now? Me in Olympic Park

After our adventures in Olympic park and confusion in trying to take the U-bahn (metro....the only metro ride we took in 4 cities) we decided we were up for one more walking site visit.. The Nyphenburg Palace. It was originally built as a hunting lodge, and it was expanded greatly with a HUUUUUGE backyard that you could honestly get lost in...so we did.

Front of the Palace

One night in Munich we went to the largest beer hall in Germany,(maybe in Europe and maybe in the world too...) We met our friends Derek and Leila there and tried to enjoy the 1 liters of Hofbrauhaus special beers.. We girlies got the light regular flava, but the boys got the dark brew. It was fun, there were A LOT of people, but it was very touristy and the service was not so friendly...but I guess I wouldnt be either if I had to wear uncomfortable leiderhosen and serve beer to loud drunk tourists..

HB, Hofbrauhaus!

Those are 1 liter glasses, but they start with almost half of it as foam, Germans like a good head on their beer, as we learned.

PROST!
It was such an amazing 12 days, Adam and I were able to see things at our own pace, which was a lot nicer then having to please lots of different people, and we just saw some incredible things. I´ve never gotten to travel like this before, so I have to say thanks to mother and father for fuding the trip, I am so fortunate to have gone to the places I did. Hopefully you will all be able to visit one day too!! DONT FORGET, go to Adam´s blog and watch the videos! They are all completed and posted and very entertaining!
CLICK HERE!!

auf weiderssain!!