We made pasta in our room for dinner

But we didn't have a garbage disposal so we put the scraps in a ziplock bag and made Ashley go throw it out somewhere.

The Alsace region of France!

We visited Haut Koenigsbourg Castle!

 

And then had lunch in the scenic old town of Colmar, the birthplace of that guy who built the Statue of Liberty! 

And if we didn't look like dumb American tourists...

Free time adventure: found a cool park

Freiburg!!!!

I Germany "to bite into the bitter apple" means to accept the bad situation you are in. Here, a golden apple represents someone owing you money who can't pay you back. And this is outside of the bank.

The cathedral of Freiburg

These are outside of the cathedral:

In mideval times, people would compare their loaves of bread here if they thought a bakery was cheating them. And if it was smaller they would tell "I got my bread from ____ bakery" and that bakery would be punished!

Full Freiburg experience! Classic long brautwerst too! Not broken in half like pansy tourists!

Rhine falls! (And lake Titisee)

I started the trip off right by

Spilling water all over myself on the plain. I did NOT wet myself.

CYWS Journey Along the Rhine trip begins today!

We have a delayed flight from Cleveland to Newark. There are so many of us though, they'll have to hold the flight to Zurich. Looks like we'll have an hour in the Newark airport.

So excited to see all my buddies on the other side of the Atlantic!