Julia, thank you so much for having me this weekend! We had so much fun! We will miss you and Finloose so much! XOXO

After staying up until 2:00 doing laundry, we woke up "late" at 8:00 and Julia had a yummy breakfast put together for us. I love that in Europe meals always last so long and nobody rushes. It was so nice to sit around a table in somebody's home and have breakfast before we started our busy day. Julia showed us around Dortmund and then we went to Phoenix Park, a man made sea that has beautiful homes surrounding it. After walking around the "sea" we hopped into J...

Today we decided to take the train to Brussels! It is so amazing how easy it is to just hop on a train and go to another country and that is exactly what we did with just two transfers we were in Belgium. We got of the train and Bruxelles Ost and walked into the beautiful and quaint city of Brussels. It was a beautiful sunny 70 degree day. We learned last night that it's a German saying that "if you clean your plate the night before you'll have good weather" an...

Düsseldorf, Germany was the first place where we felt as though we were true backpackers. Since we were waiting for Hannah's friend from Germany to meet us we explored the quaint city on foot for four or five hours, backpacks in tote. We walked along the Rhine River to see a World War II look out tower and stopped at an adorable cafe along the Rhine for a famous German pretzel. We walked around, explored, tested our German context clues, and our ability to read...

Yesterday we woke up early and were on a 4:00 bus to the airport for our flight to Amsterdam. Our flight to Amsterdam was quick and easy. I was in between two young students too that were also traveling! We arrived in Eindhoven in the late morning and then activated our EuRails and took our first European train to Amsterdam! It was so nice. We arrived to our hostel, The Flying Pig, and were a little shocked to say the least! This was our first hostel experience...