Chris's blog:
Day 1- we had a really long plane ride but i enjoyed it and watched 3 movies and then slept some. We got off the plane and breezed through customs and went and got some food since we had to wait for 4 hours for the train. I had a german donut and chocolate milk. The donut was definitely inferior to American donuts and had way less sugar. All three of us slept in the mall connected to the airport and waited for the train. Then we got on the train and i slept till we got to trier. We got off the train and i had to go to the bathroom.... and found out i had to pay to use the bathroom which mad me mad. It was only 50 cents but didn't make sense. We walked to our hotel and then went to dinner. At dinner i had a steak that was pretty rare but was OK tasting. I ate some of dads food which was basically just country fried steak with no gravy. Then we went back to our hotel and went to bed.


Day 2- we went to the information center and got tickets to go see the bathhouses and arena. We saw the port nigra or whatever its called it was a big black ruin. Then we went to the museum of trier i think and that was interesting and there was a huge foot statue outside. Next we walked to the arena which was a lengthy walk. It was really cool to see the rooms they held the gladiators and animals in. Underneath the arena was a cool sort of cave we got to walk through too. Next we took a bus and went to the bathhouses and just walked around outside of it. For lunch we had burger king when we got back. I went back to the hotel after that with a headache and we had pizza for dinner that was alright.


Day 3- we had the hotel breakfast and i had bread and all the lemon cakes (3) and apple juice. We took trains to some place to get to burg eltz. The walk to the castle was really enjoyable. We saw nobody and stopped and rested at a hotel that had good looking cakes. After the stop we walked through the hills or mountains or woods I'm not sure. It was really pretty and we followed a stream all the way to the castle. The castle was amazing. The only downside was it was somewhat painted and refurbished for people to live in. We got to tour some rooms and saw weapons and gold. Overall the castle was really impressive and then we walked back to the train station.
After we got off the train dad had the brilliant idea to go to a Chinese restaurant across the river instead of the one right in front of our hotel so we took a bus there and it isn't stop so we got off the bus in the middle of no where and had to wait an hour out in the cold for the next bus. Then we got back eventually and had food and went to bed.


Day 4- today we went to the war museum after our usual routine. We encountered some problems however with the trains today. Different people were telling us different things about where the trains were going and eventually we just took a bus. We got to the museum and it was awesome. It had tons of displays and authentic material. It was a great experience.


Day 5- today we left our hotel and went to St Goar which was a nice small town without any wifi.... we went to lunch and i had some chicken nuggets and they were terrible. Then we walked around and went up to the castle. The castle was amazing we got to go through it and on top and underneath. It was really cool to see the ruins of it and where everything was back in its day.