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A Visit from Home!

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   Hi everyone, I’m finally working on getting caught up with my blog, so here’s what I did with the rest of spring break.    Just a day after I got back from Greece, my grandparents came to visit me all the way from Texas. After a bunch of delays and some cancellations, they finally made it to Germany and I met them at the airport. The first day they were here I just showed them around the city and then went with them to the hotel. It was so nice to see them after so long, and there was so much to talk about and to catch up on. How’s everyone doing back home? What’s changed a lot since I’ve been gone? Have my siblings destroyed my room? These are just a few of the things that we talked about.    The next day the real sightseeing began, of course with the cathedral. After seeing the main attraction we saw some of Cologne’s other sights, such as the Hohenzollern Bridge, the Cathedral of Great St. Martin, and the Schildergasse. While it was nice to be out and about, it wa
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Athens at Last

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   Hey everyone, sorry for the delay but I’m finally back. I’ll pick up after the last post and finally finish Greece.    So after taking the ferry from Crete into Athens, we took a taxi into the city to our hotel. Because we were so early, we ended up having to wait to check in, so we took advantage of our spare time and went to the National Archeological Museum. We spent almost four hours there, because the museum was massive.     Eventually, after we had checked in, we walked into the city to see some of the ruins. The first thing we encountered was Syntagma Square, where we witnessed the hourly changing of the guards in front of the Parliament Building. Next we walked through the National Garden, right next door. It had some ruins of its own, but we were looking for the real deal.    We eventually found our way to the Panathenaic Stadium, a huge marble stadium originating in 330 BC, built for the Panathenaic games. The stadium that stands toda
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