So Long Farewell

Germany was an experience. I've been waiting to go home now for a while but tomorrow I'm finally coming home. Three months with my siblings by my side everyday, bugging me every minute of the day, but it was worth it. I love my family and I love to be with them. When we come back to America we won't be able to spend so much time together  - this was fun. I bet when I'm finally in my house I'll say I miss our flat. I'll miss the churches and I'll miss my dad but it will be over soon. Back home tomorrow. This was a trip worth going on.

London

My favorite place and last place we visited, was London. Wednesday we arrived there in the afternoon so we went to go see Big Ben and also went on the London Eye. It was so high and amazing! The capsule behind us had its own food and drinks and a server. Thursday we went to Buckingham palace to see the guards switch up and then we went to the famous British Museum. We saw paintings and the one and only Rosetta Stone! Friday we went to the Tower of London, Victoria and Albert museum and Saint Martins in the Field church to do brass rubbings. The Tower of London was great.  Actors were acting all around and the different towers had stories. (Like the uncle who wanted to be king so he locked his 2 nephews in a tower to rot). Then we went to the Victoria and Albert museum that had paintings.  After that we went to do brass rubbings in Saint Martins in the Field. First you pick out a design that has lines that are 3D than put a paper on top of and rub it with a crayon. Saturday we walked over the Millenium  bridge to go to the Tate Modern muesum and then we came back to Munich. London is still my favorite place. 

For my Dad's birthday we went to Vienna where we saw the famous boys choir and saw the famous Spanish Riding horses. Saturday we went to see the horse show. They were stallions. They could walk on their hind legs and jump in the air. Then for dinner we went to a place that had all different types of goulash. Goulash is meat with sauce. Sunday we went to church and saw the boys choir. They all had really high pitched voices and because of that we thought they were girls.  Coming back from the choir, the old-fashioned elevator in our hotel stopped between floors. We didn't know what was going on and nothing worked so we hit the alarm button. It felt like we were in there for hours. Vienna was cool. I want to come back some time.

Prague

Friday to Sunday my family and I were in Prague which is in Czech Republic . To get there, we took a 6 hour train ride on an Alex which is a fast train. We got there at 2:00 pm and waiting at the train station was my old aupair Michaela from Czech. She helped so much getting us to our hotel and getting us to the right tram stop. After we settled down in our hotel we had enough time to go look on the Charles bridge. It was so big that there was statues that could fit on the sides of the bridge but still have enough room to have 15 people side by side moving forward. Saturday we went to to a church called St. Vitus and the Prague castle but to see these places were a delay. After breakfast we went up to our hotel to get our coats but we heard lightening and hail and wind on the balcony so we waited a while 'till it cleared up. Sunday we met up with Michaela again to go see the castle called Karlstejn about 30 minutes outside Prague and even better, we had an English tour. The tour was a long time so after that said bye to Michaela and got on our train to Munchen. We arrived there at 11:30 pm and then I fell asleep.

Regensburg and the park

Saturday we went to Regensburg  which had alot of churches on each block  and there were different kinds of architectures in each church.  Gothic architecture was used in most of the churches. After that we went on a bridge called Sternerbrucke which had pontoons which held the bridge up. It was on the Danube river. On Sunday we went to 2 beer gardens because it was 64 degress out and it was beautiful. One problem was that it was packed and every table was filled with people and every line to get drinks and foods was horrifying.  It was a beautiful day but next time I think we need to get to the beer gardens earlier to get the food and tables.  My brother invented a mud slide on one of the hills and I couldn't stand not to try it. We had to take really long baths! I want to do that again. Au Revoir!

Dachau and Ulm

On Monday we went to Dachau where the Nazis were a long time ago but we did not go to that part of Dachau. We went to see a castle and churches in the very pretty town. The castle was not open - only the restaurant part was. The church we went to was very big and had mini heaters for when it got cold. Wednesday we went to Ulm. Not to the new Ulm but the old Ulm where I saw the biggest church I've ever seen. It was called the Ulm catherdral. For a little while we sat on the stairs of the Danube river in Ulm where the swans came and asked us for food. After that we went to go see the most tipped over hotel ever but we when we found it it was not tipped alot at all. Something my family was going to do for a long time was visit the bread mueseum which showed what bread was made from and what salt was made from. Some time I want to go back and visit there because it was very nice.

Herrsching

On Sunday my family and I went to Herrsching only 40 min on the s-bahn. We saw churches and the Ampersee, a really big lake with really clear water. The weather was great and we got very good ice cream. Also  after the ride back on the s-bahn we found a very good English church. Finally we found a  church where they speak English. It wasn't that big but there was still enough room for everyone. Today was a short day but I liked it.