Eurotour: day 1

Lucas and Emilie stayed the night at my house the night before Eurotour. We went out in the evening, and walked up the Schlossberg, and got ice cremes with Verena. The next morning we had to get up at 5:00 in the morning to meet up with all the other Grazers and catch our train arriving in Linz at 9:00. We were still the latest group to arrive and had to quickly load into the buses. Our group fills two buses. One bus is filled with all the Americans and Canadians, and the other bus is all the Latin Americans, Europeans, Australians, New Zealanders, and Croatians. Were such and disproportionate group.

Our first destination was to Köln, Germany. It took almost ten hours to drive there from Linz, but luckily we got to stop a few times along the way. Getting to see everyone again was so great. I love these kids so much. We've all become such a family to each other.

Finally we arrived in Köln around 7:00 we got our rooms and had dinner right away. After dinner we got free time to explore Köln until 10:00. I went out with Crash, Johnny, and William, we found our way to the Dome and the old city and took a few really nice pictures. Köln is really a beautiful, old city. It’s too bad we only get to spend such a short amount of time here. We made it back to the hostel and was exhausted. But before bed my roomies and I had to watch an episode of Game of Thrones. What a perfect start to Eurotour! I can’t wait for all the shenanigans still to come. 

I posted the pictures we took on our evening out in Köln. Here's the link to my flickr account:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/saminosterreich/sets