Friday, June 7, 2013

Wednesday, June 5, 2013

FROM RICHARD,

What a trip  it has been...  Today was nothing short of the rest of the journey.  Myself and John A woke up with the roosters (around 8), and walked to find a bakery with chocolate croissants.  Then before lunch our crew of 8 headed up to one of the highest points in Paris to visit Basilica Sacre Cœur and some venders up the road.  In the church we witnessed a real Catholic Church service, with priests and nuns and it all.  After lunch, we headed over to some French history and Napoleon's toom.  I never thought tooms could be beautiful before today, but Napoleon, his counter parts, and siblings proved me otherwise.  After we witnessed our ancient history for the day, we headed over to some current sports history.  At 5 the crew, headed over to the PSG (Paris's soccer club) and toured their arena.  As this concluded our visits to soccer stadiums, Wic brought up a masterful point that, we have gone to Barcelona's stadium (Spanish league champs), Bayern Munich's (European and German league champs), and PSG's (French league champs).  Overall the teams and this trip has been a mighty success, but we are not done yet...  After PSG, the group and I got ready to go to our greatest outing yet, where we knew we would have to throw down some cash.  I had the shrimps and cheese mash potatoes which was masterful.  To top  it off I had some Chocolate moose for dessert.  Most of the group has said this was either their best or top 3 best meals ever.  I agree that the  authenticity and overall quality of the meal was one of the best I personally have ever had.  On a side note:  Wic won the biggest spender award with a 73 euro tab, including 2 appetizers.  Congrats to him.  Now we are in the lobby jammin to some French and American.  This is all for tonight.

OVER AND OUT FROM,

RICHARD JAMES BAIRD

Monday, June 3, 2013

Final Destination: Paris, France

Last night at 11pm we boarded our final train, Munich to Paris. Luckily, this time on the train we all had a bed to ourselves for the 10 hour ride. It was glorious. We all slept like a baby the whole time. We reached Paris at 9am. After taking a few subways and dropping our bags off at the hotel, we then journeyed towards the French Open. Our luck, we got there an it was sold out for the day. However, we made the most out of our travel to this area. We had a nice lunch at a local authentic French restaurant. 


This restaurant also had the best bottled Coke that any of us has ever had. 
After lunch, we then went to The Louvre. Here we had about two hours to tour the whole museum. 




And lucky for me, I got in for free (being under 18 pays off sometimes). After seeing many famous sculptures and paintings like the Mona Lisa, we then headed back to our hotel where we will spend the rest of our trip. We have 4 rooms total here (Me and Robert, JoAnne and Putt, Wic and Richard, and John and Alleen). The hotel is awesome compared to the hostels that we have been staying at. Each one has a TV, shower, sink, closet, openable window, and some have a view of the Eiffel Tower. 
We are all showering and getting situated right now and about to go grab dinner and explore the town for the rest of the night. I'm sure someone else will have another post by the end of the night. 

From the Euro11 Squad, thanks for reading

Cossar



Saturday, June 1, 2013

Day 6: Pictures from Dachau

We have some free time here in Munich so I figured I would put up pictures from Dachau Concentration Camp (about 12 miles north of Munich). We took a guided tour of the whole place this morning, and it was amazing. It was a really cool experience for us all. 

"Works Will Set You Free" is written on the front gate of the camp















Our free time is up now so me and Robert are leaving the coffee shop. We are off to  Hofbräuhaus for the night.