France!
Before you ask, no, I didn’t go to Paris (my brother’s first
reaction when I told him), I went to Strasbourg. Strasbourg is one of the
biggest French cities near where I live in Germany and my family had told me
before that we were going to visit France, but I never caught the name of the
place they said. So I was really surprised when I walked down the stairs one
morning and my host mom told me that we were going to Strasbourg. (In my head I
was thinking, Strasbourg, what Strasbourg?) Then she spared me asking and said
it’s in France. The drive was about an hour to an hour and a half, it wasn’t
bad at all. The thing that really surprised me was how much the border between
France and Germany resembles the border between two states in the U.S. There
was no border patrol, and you didn’t have to stop, it was just a “Welcome to
France” sign, sort of like a “Welcome to Indiana” sign that I see pretty often
at home…
There were a ton of tourists in Strasbourg (and according to
my host parents they were mostly Germans) so we didn’t do a boat tour (it was
also pretty hot, which was really unusual) but we did visit the cathedral and
palace (now two museums) and walked along the river. And we got Icecream! It
was good :)
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| The Cathedral |
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| The River |
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| The Palace |
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| River |
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| Opera |
Holiday Park!
Basically it’s really similar to Holiday World except there
are no Holiday themed rides… I think it literally means a park you go on when
it’s holiday, and not that the park has holiday themed areas like Holiday World
back in the U.S. It was a lot of fun (and my host dad got me an unlimited pass
for the year). I went on two adult rides, then since I have a 3 year-old host
sister, we went to the kid section of the park, and it was surprisingly fun! I
mean I never really enjoy rollercoasters and scary rides all that much, so the
kid park was sort of perfect. You get to have a pretty view and have a little
bit of thrill.
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| The shops inside |
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| The Entrance |
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