February Vacation (Part 1)

The Friday before vacation, the whole family went out to go bowling. It was a lot of fun, even though I was really awful, haha.

After bowling, I went over to Nienke's house to spend the night. In the morning, we were planning on meeting Edona in Cologne, Germany. Nienke and I had to wake up pretty early to catch our first bus. In order to get to Cologne, we had to take two busses and then a train. I guess it wasn't so bad. We had made some food to bring with us but it was gone by the time we were on our second bus. Haha! When we got on our train, there were probably 30 Spanish students in our section. They were all dressed for Carnival, which, unluckily, we had completely forgotten about. Everyone was completely crazy and dressed up(kinda like how we dress up for Halloween).

We got to the station in Cologne about an hour and a half before Edona, so we decided to go walk around. Immediately when you walk out of the station is a huge church. It's probably one of the biggest I've ever seen. It was really too bad we couldn't go in(The closed it for Carnival). We walked around a little more and finally found all of the shops and the center. We found a place that sold crepes and each had one. It was absolutely delicious!

After walking around a little, we went to go meet Edona at the station. It was soooooo nice to see her! It's been a year and a half since I've seen her. Once again, we walked around and looked at shoes, clothes, DUNKIN DONUTS!! -which I was soooo excited about!!

Nienke and I had been waiting for Edona and none of us had eaten lunch, so we started walking around trying to decide what to eat. Finally we found something super awesome: Hard Rock Cafe! It was so hard to decide what to eat, so I went with my gut feeling and chose Mac and Cheese and Cesar Salad, two things I haven't had since I left Maine! It's too bad Edona has all of the pictures we took of us three. I'll get them soon but they're really great pictures!

After we ate, we had a few hours before we had to catch out train back home so we went to Dunkin' Donuts and got some really delicious ones! Believe it or not, there isn't one in Belgie so I was excited to have one again. Once it was time to leave, we made our way back to the station and bought tickets for out train. We didn't have to wait very long for our connections and busses so we were home pretty quick, something under 3 hours. It was a really awesome day!!