I read through Michael's blog posts. They are really cool and I asked him if I could do one too. So here it is :-) It is very sad that the trip is (almost) over! We sure got to see a lot and I enjoyed the trip very much!I remember when Michael wrote me on Facebook. He mentioned in his first blog entry that he "jokingly Facebook messaged" me. To be honest, when he wrote me, I wasn't sure if he was serious or not. But I was totally up for the trip! During the Oktoberfest Michael got to learn a few German words and drinking songs :-) He for example learned the word "Zug" which means train. His pronunciation is kinda bad though ;-) In return he thought me some English words that I didn't ... read more

I didn't really know what to expect with Rome. It's huge and a little intimidating, but I really liked it, actually. The only thing is that their public transportation system is awful and the street vendors are really obnoxious. Even when you are trying to eat dinner they will walk up trying to sell you crap. I still can't figure out how you could possibly make enough money to survive by selling the junk that they do. Who buys it, really? I've never been sitting outside of a quiet restuarant enjoying a pizza and thought to myself, "if I could just get my hands on a pair of 'princess' socks, that would make my night!" But apparently they do make enough because they are everywhere. My favorite thief tricks so far are the bracelet trick (very ... read more

So we are on the train to Venice now. I'll post this whenever I get internet again but it is Monday at 11 AM or so as I write. We are getting to Venice around noon and just spending today, tonight, and early tomorrow there. As beautiful as I'm sure it will be, it is pretty expensive and there isn't really all that much to see other than the St. Mark's Basillica/square, and maybe the Rialto area. We are taking the Vaporetto (basically boat buses) to our hotel near St. Mark's first thing when we get there to drop our things off and then we will just explore. We did end up going to Lake Como yesterday and I'm really glad. Saturday evening we had spent the whole day in Milan and we both kindof realized ... read more

Church bells ring for 5 minutes straight at 7AM in Switzerland, apparently...hahah. We got up pretty early and had a great breakfast at the place where we are staying. It is a really cool old house and the woman who runs it, Evelyn, has been very helpful. The breakfast was good. Swiss cheese is better in Switzerland, I think; I hate it at home. We took a cable car up to Mt. Pilatus in the morning. You have to change cars near the top because it is so steep it takes a special one. At the station where you switch there are some fun adventure activities. We did a "summer bobsled run" made out of metal. You run it with a plastic sled. It was pretty cool. The top of the mountain is unreal. It is ... read more

I made it! I can't get internet on my computer so I'm on Veronika's and German keyboards are really weird. If I mess something up, that's why. I landed on time zestrerdaz. It was a little rough, a few of the overhead compatments popped open if that tells zou anzthing. Bz the waz, the z and y are backward, sorrz. We took the Autobahn to Veronika's house. We were doing 100 mph and getting passed like we were standing still. Tons of cool cars here. It makes me laugh that Detriot's European cars look better than a lot of the American models in mz opinion. We went to a prettz sweet castle thats 1000 zears old and then to a town called Kirchiem Unter Teck that is prettz much textbook German. Everzthing is awesome so far. ... read more