we're back
No pictures because they are on film. I stopped taking pictures halfway through the film anyway because my camera got dirty somehow. I might get some up later. More than likely Will will put some up.
Section 1: Munich
Section 2: Salzburg
Section 3: Back and forth between Gemany and Austria
Section 4: Colmar
Section 5: Paris
1. hi everybody. I just got back from europe last night. We arrived in an empty Munich, Germany airport on a clear Sunday morning. We travelled back in time 7 hours, or somethign like that, so everyone was tired. All around us was the beauty of German engineering in its entirety.The airport was awesome, the cars were awesome, the buses were better than ours(pretty much awesome), and their time schedule eventually became awesome. The sun rose very early and didnt set until about 10:00. All of the grass was very green. The buildings all looked modern and clean. The new cars are what amazed me most, though. My whole first roll of film was emptied on cars. Mercedes taxis, peugots, citroens, BMWs, VWs, renaults, fiats, skodas, aston martins, lamborghinis, ferraris, alfa romeos, and some others. Anyway, i think that the first thing we did was visit some palace. It was very pretty and it devoured atleast one, if not two, rolls of film. Next, we visited a concentration camp called Dachau(sp?). It was huge and depressing. Did i mention that it was about 90 something degrees in Germany? That doesnt happen much. It was miserable. Neway, we went into town and ate at some crazy restaurant called Roma and fell asleep on sidealks all over some town square. I guess we went back to the hotel after that, but i cant remember because i dont have the itenerary on me right now. If you went on the trip and are erading this, dont get angry if i leave some t
hings out or go out of order. Our hotel was kind of small, but it was comfortable. It was part of a chain of hotels called Ibis hotels.
2. This entry is going to get very choppy and boring because i cant remember things that happened. We went to a five star hotel in Salzburg. It had a fitness room with a sauna, steam room, and a pool. Across the street was a small mall-type thing. WE ate dinner at an italian restaurant where three of us ordered lasagna and recieved three different types of lasagna. The waiter hated us, but we did drink the best bottle of water that i have ever put to my lips, Aqua Panna. This stuff had to have had crack int it. It was awesome. Next, a schitzophrenic(sp) lady walked in and started ranting about a phonebook possibly? i couldnt tell, because she spoke german. The staff of the the restaurant ignored here. We walked down the hall to witness a teenage girl walk into a batroom while crying. When she emerger she revealed an arm covered in here own blood. This was justy a tad bit disturbin. We decided to make our way out. As we did, there was a group of a few teenagers(extremely weak german gangstas) about to beat each other up. I was freaking out at this point so i weent to the hotel to watch from the second floor. Nothing happened, but we had officially had a horrible first impression of Salzburg. The next day we toured this town. Mr Grice became an ice cream addict on this trip, btw. Mozart was born in this city and that is about it.After the tour of the city by a man named Hoarst, Will Ranier, Brian Simms and I walked back to the hotel. After we got there, we decided to go back to the old city. We hopped on a bus, and proceeded to go in the wrong direction for about a mile or so, until the end of the line. We got off and proceeded to follow the electrical lines that powered the environmentally-friendly buses back to the bus station. I had been watching how we had gotten to this point and was completely oriented with our surroundings, but brian and will seemed to be a little bit less confident, which is completely understandable. We saw a bus traveling in the direction of the station and Brian and Will decided very quickly to run across the road and board it. I hestitated because I was wary of getting on another wrong bus, so i was not in danger at all of being hit by a red volkswagen bus. But Will and Brian didnt hesitate, so they almost died. The city bus closed its doors bevore we could reach it and drove off. Here was one of the highlights of my trip. Before i left, i set a few goals for myself. One of these was to play a German in foosball. As i turned to look through the window of a store beside me, there they were. Two skinny germans playing the game that i had been craving for so long. Being the non-assertive person that i am, seeing that my friends had almost died, and being in an unfamiliar surrounding, we walked of and my dreams were shattered. Im sorry, but i cant go on about it anymore. Im too heartbroken. Oh yah, joey and will galloway got drunk as hell, alot.
3. Back and forth between Germany and Austria
I cant remember the order of anything. We visited one of Hitler's little retreat places called the Eagle's Nest. It was on top of a mountain, if you couldnt tel by the name. It was very pretty, and many people have many pictures, except sarah carol, who was sick. We stayed at a family owned hotel in Oberammagau(sp?). This is the town where the Passion play is held every ten years. It was a very nice town. The tuner scene here consists of two BMW's, a peugeot station wagon, and a VW corrado with a fake G60 tag. almost all VWs and BMWs in this town had wheels and and exhaust. In another place, we vistited the castle of King Ludwig III. It was built sometime in the 1800s He disappeared before it was finished in a sailing accident in 4 feet of water. His doctor was in the boat with him. Everyone says that they died. I dont know.
4. Colmar sucked. The french were assholes. There were a bunch of drunk guys in the restaurant at night, but they got onto us for being loud. Anyway, the town was really gay too. We wenty on a walking tour with a very boring guide. After the tour i went to a bike shop and the man behind the counter was an ass, too. Tried to speak some french to him, but he wouldnt slow down for me to understand him. We left. I forgot to tell you yet, but we visited about 100000 churches on this trip. In comar, i also visited the internet cafe with crazy french keyboards. Thats about it for this city. Oh yah, the two nights in colmar started a card game craze called The Game for the rest of the trip. I wasnt very into it.
5. Paris was verny nice. The hard rock cafe in paris has the best wall memorabilia of any Hard Rock i have seen. The guitars on the walls were actually legit. When we were at hard rock ,we learned that Maroon Five played a concert the night before, right in front of the eiffel tower. Do you know where we were during this? After we got back form Vesailles that day, the bus driver asked us if we wanted to get off at the tower since the lines for the elevator were shorter. Nobody got off. If we ahd, the show probably would have highlighted the trip. The reason that they were there is because Paris was having a big festival about being a candidate for the 2012 olympics, if you are douting why they were there. The conert was probably free, too. Ask me about it some other itme, because i am really bored with writing this, as you are probably bored with reading it.