Another One

Once upon a time, I was going to put all of my Köln stuff in one giant post. Then I made one post, covering about 24 hours of Köln life, and ran out of pictures. Now Blair's got her pics up, and I'm going to mooch some of them, but I'm putting them in this post, because I know you hate scrolling down. Blogging about today (and that will be quite a blog) will happen this evening!


So this is all of us chilling outside the Dom, on Thursday afternoon, according to my notes. Where am I? See the group of people with their arms around each other on the left? See the red-haired girl in the black coat? That's Emily. If you look close beside her head, you will see my head, very small, my new hair hidden by my hat.

After the above pic, we went on a tour that involved going under the city to see some cool, old Roman ruins. Mostly I spent my time trying to keep Rose distracted from her migraine, and trying not to be terribly bored by our tour guide. We got kicked out of the museum because it was closing, and the lady made us stand outside and listen to the end of her story about some ancient Roman lady marrying her uncle and not getting murdered by her son or something. It was pretty cool to walk through ancient Roman sewers, though, I must admit.

And those are the only pictures of Blair's for which I have fun stories, but it's a good thing Mary sent me a TON. This post will grow as I get time tonight, what with bowling and all.


So we're back to Wednesday, hanging out in front of the Dom waiting for the train to come. This are Mary's pictures, and she is a narcissist. So the one above (Mary in front of a Dom but not the Dom) and those that follow are Mary trying to be prettier than the Dom, and wearing my hat because she was unprepared.


And the Hauptbahnhof, to help you imagine the things that were around me better!

Emily is very good at standing outside of centuries-old uncompleted cathedrals.

Christine is so sexy.

Whitney and Casey look so concerned. You can see my hat behind Whitney's head!

Remember that Australian that I told you we met? And how he gave us his card? Well, Christine took the original, so Mary took a picture.


We finally did make it to Bonn, and Mary and Casey and Emily got seperated from the group at the train station because they are awesome. I wasn't with them, so I don't know that story. I do know that I stayed with the group and told Dustin and whoever about how amazing Bonn is. And we went to the old Rathaus to meet the mayor, which Mary also eventually found. And after we talked to the mayor for a while, he invited us to play mayor for picture-taking purposes. You know Mary was all over that opportunity.


Many of the rest of us milled around and took pictures, including Buster, Dustin, Allyson, Carly, Morgan, Priya, and Kendra.


And then I got interrupted by dinner and Piff's English homework and bowling, and it is now 11 and I had a great night, but I have to get up at 6 tomorrow, so blogging will have to be put off for now. Sorry!