What's next?

Tomorrow we both graduate from college and from there we can look forward to holding jobs all summer. In the fall, after we receive our diplomas in the mail, we are going to travel to South Korea to teach English conversation for a year. We will keep updates on our blog (unlike our friend Tara) but they will be fewer and farther between over the summer. As things settle down and we catch up we'll try and put some more pictures on too.

We've made it back to the U.S. this Friday evening with no hitches in our flight plan. We transferred at Chicago O'Hare and arrived at Minneapolis on time. Our friends Kurt and Brooke picked us up at the airport and we ate a great Cinco de Mayo meal in River Falls at our favorite Mexican restaraunt. There may or may not have been a few drinks involved too. Lots to get done before graduation and late June (if you know what I mean). We look forward to talking with everyone so feel free to call, email or post. Thanks for reading our blog and we'll put some more pictures on soon.

Trier and Koln

Yesterday, 2 May, we visited Trier. This is the oldest city in Germany and was quite impressive! There are many artifacts from Roman times, including the largest city gate left standing! We also visited a cathedral that was georgous and connected to it was the oldest Gothic church in Germany. We have never seen 2 massive churches connected before! Karl Marx was born here, and we toured his house that has been turned into a very interesting museum. The sun was out and it was about 70 degrees, the hottest it's been that we remember!
Today we checked out the town that we have been in for the past 3 nights: Cologne. The dom, or cathedral, is so huge and so great to walk around in. There were also city walls for us to see, although many seemed to be under construction so we couldn't get very close. We were also able to tour a chocolate factory/museum (Lindt Chocolate) and tasted the freshest chocolate available! The sun was out again today and was quite hot. We soaked it up while we could and ended the afternoon grabbing a few last-minute souvenirs to remember the town with. Tomorrow morning we leave in the AM for Frankfurt, which is less than 2 hours by train away. We fly out on Friday, and will be in the US about 18.30!

We went to Russ's game on Friday night and it was an excellent game even though Hamburg lost to a field goal with less than a minute left. Saturday we came to Cologne but the weather has been cold and rainy so sightseeing has been somewhat limited. Today we went to Aachen to see Charlemagne's capitol. All that remains of his palace is the church and its treasures which were very impressive. While we're here we want to also day-trip to Trier (Germany's oldest city) and maybe Bonn or Mainz, but there is a lot to do here in Cologne. Thursday we are for sure going to Frankfurt because we have to fly out Friday morning.