Time flies...

I just looked at my last blog post, and wow, time flies! I have already been in Germany for more than 3 weeks! I am leaving in 5 days with my sister, her husband and my niece back to Canada. Home. :) The whole family is gonna be together for Christmas at home this year plus 2 new extra family members now. The whole fam hasn't been together for Christmas (my personal favourite holiday) in years! 
                                                                               Anyways, I feel so bad about not blogging more while being here, BUT I have done so much in the short time being here! Some things about Germany that I love: There are so many castles here! The one closest to where I'm staying, the people that live here just use it for their daily use! teenagers study in it, elderly people read/sit in there, and they have youth retreats where you can stay in the castle for a weekend!

- *(I didn't end up finishing this blog the same day like I was wanting to, and now I'm back! Kind of kicking myself right now. But I'm going to have lots to write about for the next while.)
                                                                        Another thing I love is how many old building there are that they keep up to maintenance so they can still use them. We went to the next city closest to us and in the city center there was this store that sold beautiful antiques, the building was over 160 years old! Europe in general has so much history with all the wars that happened there, the old buildings, castles, heritage, religion, the huge old Catholic churches. I am personally a huge history nerd so Germany was amazing to me.
                             I got to do a lot of traveling around when I was there, I got to go to the Netherlands for afternoon, Cologne for a day which included going to Cologne City shopping center, The love lock bridge, and the famous cathedral. I went to Amsterdam, Dortmund for one weekend staying with Tasha's sister in-law. While I was in Germany I rode on a train for the first time! It was an amazing experience for me because where I live we don't really use trains for traveling, but in Germany it's normal.
I will be blogging a lot more but for now this is good.

~Always love, Mikayla