1) In Luxembourg, it is necessary to live up to the expectation of having a great car. I saw more
BMW's, Lexus, Mercedes etc. than I've ever seen in my life. And they'd just cruise past, at a bit higher speed than I would ever drive on a narrow street with curves. We discovered how fast they drive early on, and whenever we'd hear an engine we'd jump to the side, as you usually couldn't see the car coming - just could hear it. Picture to the left is one of the many streets we passed with the nice cars all lined up.2) The birds in Luxembourg had something out for Carolyn. Day one she somehow got bird poop all over her glove, hand and coat. We laughed for quite awhile as she would discover more spots on her coat etc. Theresia and I found it quite humorous. Day two, we were taking pictures with our camera's sitting on top of this wall. Carolyn was lining up her shot and a bird popped up from the other side of the wall, literally inches from her camera lens. The bird shrieked. Carolyn yelled. Theresia and I laughed hysterically. As things come in threes...we expected one more bird experience, but were disappointed.
3) If you would walk everywhere in Luxembourg - which distance wise would be completely feasible - you would have fantastic looking legs. Everywhere you walk it's either uphill or downhill, and most aren't gradual inclines either. We started to figure out that we only saw tourists walking around, and everyone that actually lived there drove in cars to wherever they were going. They knew about the pains of the hills. We, unfortunately, had no choice but to walk. It all worked out though - got in a nice workout all weekend!! Picture to the left is one of the MANY hills we climbed up throughout the weekend.4) I found my name/initial in a couple of fun and unexpected places that weekend. We had ice cream on Saturday, and got plenty of weird looks
for wearing winter coats and eating ice cream! My ice cream bar (chocolate brownie flavor...YES) was shaped like a 'B'! Only I would find that cool. And then...as we were out shopping and looking in stores, came across the "Boo" store! Took a picture, as you could see in the last post. :) And finally, we came across a plastic cow outside of our restaurant on Sunday. I've gotten the 'Betsy the Cow' joke more than once, so also took a picture. :) (I also thought of Doug and Laura's dog Molly, who is petrified of plastic cows.)5) Weird groups of tourists...as we were waiting to check in at the hostel, this HUGE group of people, all ages, walked in. They were all wearing matching red winter jackets and didn't seem to be related or look alike at all. We couldn't figure out how they all had these matching coats. We felt like we were at the Olympics and were watching a team walk by. It was VERY strange. There were infants and even elderly people in this group...all sporting the same coat. We never did figure this one out...any ideas??
Well, as you can see, not a whole lot happened in Luxembourg - which was actually the point. We all enjoyed the laid back weekend, walking and picture taking. This coming weekend I'll be in staying in Maastricht, prepping for exam week which is quickly approaching and enjoying the weather, hopefully with some time outside in the sun!
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