Friday, January 28, 2011

so far, so good!


of course I had to take a phone booth pic.
me, steph, kirsten, jenna, and phil by the fountain in front of the national art museum.
Hi everyone! So yesterday was the most AMAZING day in London. We took an incredible tour of the entire city and stopped at a bunch of great locations: Buckingham palace, the london bridge, Westminster Abbey, and we went to a museum, and Big Ben. We toured all day and then we had some free time so a few of us went to this amazing national art museum. We chose to look at the artwork from the 1700's to present day. It was really cool, and it made me look forward to my art history class in prague. After we went to the museum, the same small group of us stopped at this cute little 
we stopped at the london bridge, beautiful view of the city.
jenna and I at buckingham palace
canadian pub and picked up a classic order of chips (french fries) and a sandwich... and of course beer. I am starting to ENJOY beer, although I am still one of the last to finish my mugs. After lunch, we went back to the hotel and took a long nap because we knew we had to leave at 4am for the airport for Munich AND we wanted to go out again in London. So, as we predicted, we had an amazing night at the clubs and made it back to the hotel at around 230am, leaving us just enough time to chill in the room, order some pizza, and then make it to the bus by 4am. Needless to say, this morning was not my best. I was SOOOO tired, not feeling amazing, and schlepping 4 bags around the airport. wow, seriously packed enough for a year... not okay when you're traveling every other day. we got to the airport with plenty of time, sat around the terminal (we boarded the plane at around 630am) and then we arrived in Munich at about 10am. Seeing as though we were beyond dead, Jenna and I immediately napped when we got to the hotel, and set our alarm for just enough time to grab some lunch before our tour of Munich. However, at about 6pm Munich time, we heard our friends calling our names from the hallway and Jenna and I shot up out of bed. We completely slept in through our tour of Munich, oh well. From the looks of it, it is very pretty, but I needed my sleep :-). Anyway, at 6:30 a huge group of us from the program went to this place called Beirgarden and got HUGE mugs of beer and of course had a sample of Germany's famous sausages. Very good. After dinner, we went to this awesome place called "hofbrauhaus" for more gigantic mugs of beer and pretzels. It was a lot of fun, although the Germans are pretty aggressive and rude. Now it's almost 1am in Germany and I am still pretty wide awake considering the 5 hour nap we took. Tomorrow we GO TO PRAGUE!!!!! I am soooo stoked and cannot wait to finally get my bags unpacked and get settled. We leave Munich at 10am, stop for lunch at a brewery (of course!) and then get to Prague around 5 or 6pm. I can't wait to explore tomorrow as soon as we get there and I will update you as soon as I get a chance. LOVE YAAA.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sounds like you are having an incredible time!!

Anonymous said...

oh that was from me, Marissa ahahhahaha