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It Begins in Beautiful Switzerland

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Officially in Switzerland with Keane and Sarah :) Attached is the spectacular view I woke up to this morning. We are staying in Leysin, Switzerland in their friend's chalet for the weekend. After finally arriving yesterday to the airport, we drove to the Gruyere Cheese factory and went on a tour where the friendliest cow named Cherry spoke in our ear's about how the cheese is made. It was semi-creepy having a cow describe the process but at least she tried to be funny. Then we headed to the Cailler Chocolate factory for another tour, this one a little more in depth and fancy. Our group was shuffled through the most extensive disney land style exhibit of the history of chocolate. Cailler, Nestle and Kohler are companies that all work together. At the end there were samples.. and boy there were samples. You know when you gift a box of chocolates to somebody and it lasts them at least a week if not a month? We had to eat that whole box in 3 minutes. I'm not complaining abou...
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The delay in Detroit

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Try as they might we didn't make it in time to catch the next flight. So I'm now stuck in Detroit with a giant hotel room and the loudest snorer in the room over. I appreciate how delta does things to compensate the delay. I just wish they could have held the plane for me.  Staying in a hotel room alone is new. My solution is to order a fantastic burger and wine with mrs. Doubtfire and master of disguise to cover my neighbors snores. And the traveling continues...
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A New Journey Begins...

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          Four years later and I am about to board another flight to Europe. This trip will be a little different then the last. This time there is more structure and a round trip ticket involved. Don't get me wrong I still have less of an intinerary then the average bear, but there is an actual mission to accomplish. You see I am off to see my brother and sister in law who I have not seen in a year and a half. They are currently serving as missionaries in Germany, the selfless people that they are. I am flying in (or trying to) and visiting with them for the first weekend. Then it is backpacking time yet again, but just for a week and a little more structered. I won't give away the whole trip in the first post (there has to be a cliff hanger to keep you coming back for more of course).               Earlier I said trying to fly because I am sitting in the Madison Airport currently with an hour delay on my first plane. I sched...
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Start Off Barcelona with the G-Dog

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Barcelona. Amazing city. If you ever go to Barcelona and Im sorry to say this, but are a younger person, stay in a saint jordi hostel. They are amazing. Specifically I stayed in sagrada familia. Its pretty much a skateboarding place. But any of them are good. My whole time in Barcelona was spent booking a night, saying I was leaving the next day and then just booking another night. Eventually nobody believed I was leaving, one remark was that theyd come back in 2 years and I would still be there. Which is why Im on a train on my way out, but if I wasn't trying to do a Europe trip I would stay in Spain and just travel around there.     Anyway it was a week in Barcelona so yet again I am going to try to do a summary. The first night I got in I ended up just doing the normal settle in, try not to smell and take a shower thing, and ended up meeting 2 american girls who were in my room. We bonded over an awkward situation and from there went to the magic fountain together. No ...
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Race Track Valencia and Spanish Food

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    Starting this post out saying that if you ever go to Spain get the chocolate Kinder Bueno. It is sooo good, pretty much the same as my favorite American chocolate Rocher, but almost close to as good. Anyhow, last time I ended with putting only a little bit of Valencia in at the end of the post. Valencia was so pretty. Theres a long strip of park alone the whole side, kind of cutting through the city that used to be a river but since then all the water has dried up and so they put in a beautiful park. Its so sick because each time you cross under a different bridge the next section of the park is completely different then the last, some have fountains, some statues, some very sour orange trees (yeah we kept trying at least 5 different ones hoping they wouldnt be sour turns out their just sourer then the last), and near the end of the park you enter this huge place. Giant beautiful glass buildings each different from each other, consisting of an aquarium, a planetarium,...
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Alicante in Warp Speed

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Alright these are going to be quick over views since I really have to catch up on this blog and get back to being up to date by only a few days and not a couple weeks.         So in summary we had Alicante, Spain. There I met a giant group of students from the university there through a guy I met at the hostel who had a friend apart of the group (just to clear up the how i met people question). Most of the students were from the US but some weren't. All in all I met a bunch of translators for me. Some key points from Alicante were hanging out, going to the beach at night, dancing in the club with some free champagne bottle from the hecklers on the street, and salsaing. As part of their class they had to go to a flaminco show so of course I tagged along. Turns out although it was authentic flaminco it was nothing like what you would think it would be. You would picture girls in long flowing skirts dancing with some guys right? I think this would normally be...
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Spanish Shots and Observations

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    So I realized that I never made any of my spanish observations in my first entry for this leg of the journey. For one the streets are back to normal on the right side and everything. It makes it easier to cross the street, though it is a little disappointing. While you are sitting at a table outside of a restaurant, like I said previously they all have outdoor seating pretty much, there will constantly be someone coming up and either asking you for money or to sell you something. Its the same walking down the street where theres either beggars with their dogs, or hands out, or selling either bags, toys, hats, roses, watches, or jewelry. We are also back to normal sinks, but this time the shower is the one thats messed up. If you remember the sinks back in elementary school where you had to constantly push hot or cold down and it would slowly pop back up and stop, yeah thats how the shower is here. Its not to bad besides the fact that Im the kinda gal who will not step...
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