Strasbourg and Freiburg!

This weekend we had a trip to Strasbourg, France and Freiburg, Germany that was organized by our program CEA and was included in our program.

Saturday morning we were up early to get to the train station at 745 which feels really early on a Saturday morning! We met up at the station with about 20 or so other girls, and boarded the train to S.burg which is about a two and a half hour trip. It's amazing how quickly the landscape changes from urban to very rural when leaving the city. Anyway, once we got to S.burg and off the train, we were all quite surprised to notice how much colder it was there! 40-50 f! Brr! (Coldest Paris has been is 60s). We took a bus to our hotel/hostel and immediately headed out to go check out the town. We walked through a cute antiques market and stopped in front of the cathedral.

 

I found it to be even more beautiful than notre dame...blasphemy, I know!
We had some free time to wander around and get some lunch and we decided on a bratwurst. (Strasbourg is verrrry close to the German border...seems like about 20 minutes, lots of German influence)

Once we returned for a tour of the Cathedral and the old town, we were all very cold and damp, it had been raining since we arrived.

After the tour finished, we had some more time which we spent napping at the hotel, followed by dinner with the group. The dinner was very good, a sort of pizza dish followed by chicken and vegetables and weird pasta noodle things. After dinner some of the girls decided to go out and grab a drink and we finally were making some friends!

Nobody looks happy here, but it is not the case!

Time for a haircut! Agh!

The next day we headed for the Black Forest in Germany which surprisingly looks a lot like the Smokies in North Carolina....But it was very pretty and it was a fun time strolling through the little town that sits up by the Titisee lake.

....to be continued (I am sooo tired and I have class bright and early!)