Liechstein & Stuttgart
Until today I never thought I could be so happy touring in a museum I would cry. Today I spent a whopping 2 Euros (total!) to spend the afternoon in two cool museums. The second was a bunch of crown jewels and pottery from the stone age (which was awesome), but it´s the first one that made me cry. It was a musical instrument museum! It wasn´t advertised anywhere, and the tourist info place had never heard of it, but a friend ran into it while she was here last week so I knew it existed. They had one of the first Tubas on display, a bunch of cool bassoons (or Fagotts in German), as well as every other weird and/or old instrument they have been able to get their hands on. The weirdest instrument was there only via photos, but it was still awesome! It was this music box on steroids contraption, which had 270 instruments attached to it to imitate a full orchestra. He literally was a One Man Band!
Tonight I am also staying in a private hotel room for only 29 Euros! It´s kind of nice not to do the dormitory thing for a night. It´s really nice, and is really close to everything here. Tomorrow I´ll be staying in Frankfurt, but I hope to visit the city of Luxembourg in the afternoon. It will probably end up like my adventure to Liechtenstein yesterday.
Yesterday had a lot of train/bus travel, but totally worth it to say I was there and have the opportunity to wander around the city/country a bit. While I was in Vaduz I did do the 'totally tacky tourist thing' and pay to get a stamp in my passport that says I was there. But, I am so happy I got it! I think it was the best souvenir I´ve gotten so far. I also found patches for every country I am going to on this trip (including Vatican City), at a really super cheap price, so I bought them all. The next time I am stuck with several hours at a train station, I might sew them on.
I have also finally found a place that will let me download the photos to the computer and then upload them to the net, so here´s the link to all of my photos since Berlin! I´ll try to add captions to them over the next couple of days.
I love you all!
Andrea
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Well well well, the next chapter is finally up! haha jk jk it has been very cool reading about all ur adventures, extreme sports, food endevers, and what not, very cool. Basically its like I can't wait for the next chapter in the story to be told so don't delay as I'm waiting everyday hehe, and I am growing more and more envious of ur fun times hehe *shrugs* u earned it:) I saw Mortimer in ur pics, aw poor guy lost in europe. Well maybe u can come pickup his twin when u get back to Canada. Do u have any pics of u doing the extreme sports? that would be cool to see u rolling in a big ball. The tuba's look sweet and u got a pic of the trumpets too, sweet (me instrument) oh question are u bringing back any chocolate from switzerland? hehe anyways keep having fun and keep updating us! :) take care and God Bless.
Wow. That's a lot of buildings. Good thing you enjoy that kinda thing. Glad to see you've gotten and seen some real scenery! And yay! Polk! Hope you are having tons of fun and can't wait to hear the stories behind the pictures - 366! Man, that was sure a good diversion from the books, but boy my midterm is gonna suffer, that was a lot! And really, I'm gonna need the background to the pictures of sinks... Can't wait to see you! LOVE YOU LOTS!
Diana
PS - Oh and looks like you need to find Dennis somewhere...
PPS - Holy crap! Was that a picture of Andrea in a short(er), strapless, BRALESS and TIEDIE dress! WHAAAA!?!?! What has Europe done to you!?!?! Geez, first the birkenstocks then this. Next up, Andrea smoking some bud in Amsterdam... it's only logical! Jk. Okay. I'll propose a comprimise - a picture of you drinking some heineken!
Hey I loved the Mozart pictures! :) I wasn't quite sure if some of the pics were from Leichtenstein or not, but I'll keep checking back until you have time to label some more... :)
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