Tuesday, December 2, 2008

Second "10 Day" Free Travel
































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































The second ten day was just as fun as the first! Same group of wonderful girls, only difference? The places we went! This time we began in Barcelona. We night-trained it up to Paris and spent the longest amount of time there that we had ever spent in one place. It was kind of nice to have so much time to really see a city. Especially a city like Paris! After Paris we trained to Brussels on our way to Bruges. Bruges was such a cute little place; I really liked it. Then we went to Amsterdam on our way to Berlin. Although we didn't get much time in either Brussels or Amsterdam, I'm glad we had part of a day in each city. Berlin was a great way to end the free travel. It was fun and completely packed full of history. We took a 4 hour walking tour...in the snow! Every place we hit from Bruges on was either snowing or had snow on the ground. It made it very magical:) Not only did we get to see snow, we got to see snow in Vienna! That was such a special treat to see snow waiting here for us when we got back. It doesn't usually get cold enough here to snow so it was definitely a rare treat. We've all been in the Christmas mood lately and singing Christmas songs 24-7:)

ITALIA




















































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































This was the trip that the whole 50 or some of us went on...yes, it was quite interesting with such a large group! But it was also lots of fun. I loved Italy so much. I definitely want to go back there. First we hit Rome, then Florence, and finally we went to Venice. After Venice we were free to travel a little before going back to Vienna for more classes (we have to do SOME school while we're here;) haha). During that time my great group of girls and I went to the Cinque Terre, a wonderful little grouping of 5 cities on the west coast of Italy. It's so picturesque....literally because I think I took over 100 pictures there!!