My Failure as a Blogger

I have failed miserably at bloging this trip like I had planned.  Every time I went to sit down and actually create a post I would have nothing I really wanted to say.  But now I guess I finally have something to say.

Me and the view from Margret Bridge in Budapest

While nothing this summer has gone according to the plan I made over the winter I am 100% okay with that!  Maybe plans are over rated.  I didn’t plan this trip beyond a couple of cities I may want to go to, Budapest, Salzburg, Prague and Vienna where on that list.  I made it to half of them and I’m not upset about that at all.  Actually if I had stuck to that plan I wouldn’t have met some of the people I got to meet. 

While the places I saw were amazing this trip has had more to do with the people I’ve been able to meet and what I have been able to accomplish on my own.  With the exception of Berlin and Amsterdam I was on my own each time I entered a new city yet by the time I left I wasn’t anymore. 

I started in Munich, completely lost and convinced that this trip was a gigantic mistake until the second day I was there these two guys (Marcus and Johnny) started talking to me then around the fire someone else started talking to me.  Before I knew it I had met the English Leprechauns and we were laughing hysterically!  By the time I left Munich I was convinced I had made the right choice and everything would be okay.

One of our Sound of Music shots, we got photobombed by a nun.

So off to Salzburg I went, no clue what I actually wanted to see there I’d figure that out when I got there.  And after I slept, the night I left Munich I didn’t sleep I did however fall off a very strange playground thing. Once I woke up I met my roomies!  Alice, Joe and Jenny (and while she wasn’t a roomie) Lily.  Without you guys I don’t think I would have had as much fun.  The Sound of Music Tour, recreating as many pictures as we could through out Maribell Gardens and Salzburg.  The political talks with Alice, I had a great time in Salzburg!!!

Johnny showing me how gracefully I fell the night before. 

Budapest was the city I was most excited to see from the time I started reading the book I bought about it, yet it was also the place I was most nervous about.  Germany I had under control I could read enough signs, knew how things worked I was calm cool and collected there but Hungary… yeah not so much.  And boy was I lost that first hour.  I had no idea where to get my bus ticket, exactly where I was going, no idea what the signs said.  I made it to the hostel and was talked into going on a pub crawl.  I am happy that I did that I have blast!  It was a great group of people and we all laughed a ton.  I definitely want to go back to Budapest since I was sick for part of my stay there.  I can’t complain though, I spent 2 months in Kentucky and then a month in Europe and it was the first time I was sick.

Now I am heading to Munich to close out my trip.  Hopefully this time I won’t be such a mess I will actually see some of the city.  I can’t believe that my trip is days from being over.  In some ways I don’t even recognize who I was when I graduated in May.  I know that I’m still that girl but I’m different more adventurous maybe.  More willing to try things I know that much.  But I’m calmer in a lot of ways, I don’t need to plan every day of my life if I have an idea what my next week will look like I’m good with that.  Hopefully this continues I like the freedom, the peace. 

I have loved being in Europe but I am soooo ready to be back in Vermont.  It is where I belong and where I really want to be.  Hopefully whatever job I finally do get allows me to stay there.