Trying to Catch Up!

EGYPT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Me, Annika, Ellen, and Esther over the Nile River.

Typical scene on the side a street in Cairo.

JUMP for the Pyramids!
We are so super!

Oldest pryamid. It is a step pyramid, the first design! The newest pyramid is over 4,000 years old, can you guess than how old this one is??
RIDING CAMELS!

Me, my camel, and the Giza Pyramids! It was the most surreal expereince of my life so far!
Me, Annika, Esther, Ellen and the Egyptian Museum! An entirley unique museum with the craziest and oldest artifacts and mummies!
Cairo at night.
Welcome to Dahab! Our Egyptian friend, Mido, helped us get a taxi and we made our way safely to our amazing hostel in this beautiful village on the Red Sea.
Our Hostel! Penguin Village.

SNORKELING! Can you believe it? We just finished snorkeling in the RED SEA in the Blue Hole.
Jump for the mongross!
Guyland! On our second snorkeling adventure to a National Park, we met many neat people and the young boy here, Guy, was quite a story teller and made up his own island community here on these rocks.
Annika, Ellen, Me, and Esther and the beautiful Red Sea.
Sunrise of Saudi Arabia and the Red Sea. Totally worth waking up at 6:00 AM on our Holiday!

Ellen and our new Australian friends, Nick and Brenton.
The most amazing meal of our time in Egypt. I had chicken kebabs with fresh grilled veggies and the most spectacular milk shake ever. I would go back to Dahab just for another shake!
Our last meal together in Egypt. It was a sad morning as we knew we were leaving this wonderful country that night.

GREECE!

Ellen and I with the view of Athens beyond us.

Our Christmas meal in our Hostel in Athens. It was a great time and a lot of socializing with our new friends from Costa Rica, France, England, and Sweden.

Athens...
SUSAN CAME TO VISIT!!!

We had the best time in Olympia checking out the old Olympic game grounds and remains. We are standing now on the old stadium/track. The shot-put competition was held here during the 2004 Olympics.

Susan and I together in some cool remains.
Susan and I near the Acropolis in Athens again.
Ellen, Susan, and I in front of the big Olympic stadium.

Swinging in Athens!
AHH!! It is much harder than it looks!!
Susan and I and the Olympic Stadium in Athens.
At the top of the Acropolis, Susan and I, were able to get a great photo of us and Athens. Also, below us is an old theater.

Susan, me, and the Mediteranean Sea.
SUSAN AND SALZBURG!!
Me, Susan, and Salzburg!
I think I can pick it up!!

CZECH REPUBLIC!!

Prague...

Beautiful canals in Prague under the St. Charles Bridge. Prague was really beautiful, I just wished the weahter would have cooperated better.
POLAND!

Krakow's Castle and ME!

Krakow...
Inside a Salt Mine I visited, the miners sculpted chapels inside from the salt and here is a sculpture of the Last Supper.
The tour guide openly invited us to lick the walls of the salt mine to make sure it was really salt. I just couldnt pass up the opportunity! They were really salty by the way!
Arbeit Macht Frei. Work will make you free. This is the entrance to the Auschwitz Concentation Camp. This camp was huge and overwhelming with its size.
BELGIUM!

Brussels Grand Square and me!

The little boy how pees into a fountain. I didn't even know this existing until I arrived in Brussels. Very regularly ONE man changes the costume on this statue and this day he was Elvis.
Bruges. A beautiful quaint city with wonderful canals and really good waffles and chocolate.

THE NETHERLANDS!!!!

Ellen and I at the Toga Party in Dronten.

Me and my Toga!
We are so pretty!

GERMANY!

I went to visit Annika in Papenburg, watching "I Am Legend" with Will Smith. Met the new group in Frankfurt and then headed back up north to Hamburg. I explored this very industrial port city by myself and just enjoyed the solitude and wonderful scene. This is me and the famous HUGE Hamburg Harbor!

HALLO!!

I can not believe it, I have been back in Salzburg for three weeks and have a 2 full weeks of school behind me. Also, I still can not believe where all I was able to go and what all I was able to do from the 14th of December until the 24th of January.

I hope that soon I will be able to fill everyone in about my travels, but for now I will put up some photos that you all can enjoy!! From Eygpt to Greece to Salzburg to Prague to Krakow to Beglium to the Netherlands to Germany and back finally to Salzburg. I hope you enjoy the photos!!

Tschuess,

Dana