It's been awile...

Julie, Ellen, and I have been to three cities since the last time that we got a chance to write in our blog. So much has happened.

In Munich Julie and I met up with Ellen. We all realized that nothing much has changed in the two years that we had seen eachother. Julie and I were happy to have another person to keep us company. The first thing that we did in Munich was to go and have a cheeseburger and fries at the Hard Rock Cafe. It was amazing!! It hit the spot. The streets were packed in Munich becase it was the 850th anniversary of the city, or something like that.
After eating lunch Ellen and I went to one of the museums in Munich. Although, I have no idea what the name of it was. I do remember that they had a really good art collection. We then went back to the hostel and went to eat dinner.
The next morning we woke up to yet another day of rain. The night before we had been talked into doing the free tour of Munich that our hostel gave. The tour came highly appraised. Unfortunately the rain put a damper on the tour. The three of us only lasted an hour.
After bowing out of the tour we met with Ellen's parents and had a lovely Italian meal. We then traipsed around the town because it was not raining anymore. We had a great time walking to the English Gardens. They were beautiful and it is supposed to be the largest city park in the world. After our walk through the garden we went to have some ice cream and afternoon tea. My ice cream was delicious and Julie and Ellen's tiramisu looked just as good.
On our third day in Munich we decided to visit Dachau. It was an experience that I do not regret. I found the concentration camp very interesting and I think that it is something that everyone should do in their lifetime. It was chilling standing there in the museum. It did not help that it was freezing outside.
Later that day we went to Heidelberg to see Julie's sorority sister Veronica. We arrived in Heidelberg just in time to make dinner and to talk until early in the morning. The next day after sleeping in for awhile. The three of us girls went up to Heidelberg castle.
The views from the castle were spectacular, and it was quite a trek to get up there. We walked around the castle for a couple of hours and met a really nice couple from England who suggested that we go to the University museum and to the student jail. They both were really interesting.
The student jail was set up in the seveteen hundreds and over the two hundred years that it was open students had taken up the tradition of painting on the walls. There was grafitti everywhere. From floor to ceiling the walls were covered with names and silhouettes of people who had been kept in the jail. Later on after Veronica had finished with her classes we went to a traditional German restaurant and had a fabulous meal.
Our train was set to leave a 12:54 that night so we went back to Veronica's and got our stuff and headed to the train station. We got to the station at about twelve thirty and started to wait for our train. The train never came. Turns out that the station that we were supposed to leave from was in another city and we had not been told that. We spent an hour at the train station trying to figure out what we were going to do. Luckily Veronica was still awake and we were able to spend the night at her apartment a second night. The next morning we were able to get on the 9:14 train to Paris after a long conversation with the people who worked at the train station. We did not believe that we were in the wrong because they were the ones who had not told us that we needed to go to a different city to get our train.