It's official...

I leave for Germany on November 20th! I'll be there for a little over two weeks, hopefully long enough to take a couple of trips within the trip. My sister and her husband want to go skiing in Austria for Thanksgiving. I'm excited, but a little nervous...I've been skiing once in my life, and my strategy for slowing down when I got going too fast (probably all of 10 mph) was to fall down. So, this should be interesting. One HUGE plus of going to Austria would be the possibility of going on "The Sound of Music" Tour!!!

Doe, a deer, a female deer.

I am 16 going on 17....

Edelweiss, Edelweiss
(Photos courtesy of Panorama Tours)

The last time I went to visit my sister, we didn't necessarily explore Germany itself too too much. That might be fun to do this time. Of course, I'll be trying to hit up every Christmas Market possible. There are also tons of castles, so those would be fun to tour. I also definitely want to go to Dachau, the first Nazi concentration camp in Germany. My neighbor went a couple of years ago and said it was really amazing and moving.

It's so easy to travel from country-to-country once you're over there, so I'd even like to maybe check out Prague and/or Budapest, or even Bruges. Or a Rhine or Danube tour. Okay, I might be getting a little too ambitious....