So this one time I went to Germany...

So last weekend for my lovely ART class (its really more of a history class, but I digress) we ventured off to Trier, Germany.

We left around 8am, took a sweet bus ride to the American cemetery for the soldiers fallen in the Battle of the Ardennes during World War II in Luxembourg. It was a very solemn experience visiting the place that is home to so many unknown soldiers and General Patton.

General Patton's gravestone

 From there, we got back on the bus, and went to Trier. In Trier, we had quite the busy day. I got stuck in a group with Professor Chew, aka Indiana Jones. He is crazy. He dressed like Indiana Jones, and was just full of so much information we thought he was cool at first. Then, as we got to know more about him, we realized he was not in fact cool, rather he was a creepy 50 year old man whose into young Asian college girls. The trip got real awkward (with him as our guide) real fast.

Indiana Jones

 Anywho, so what we did. First, we went to the hostel and dropped off our stuff, next lunch, then we were off to the central market place of town, Hauptmark. From there we went to the Dom, the very large Romanesque Cathedral, then off to the the Bishop's Museum.

The front side of the Dom

Inside view of the Dom

Lovely ladies and Patrick at the Dom

 After the Bishop's Museum, we visited Karl Marx's house. We had the best tour guide ever, he kept comparing Karl Marx to Harry Potter, in summary he is now the new love of my life!

Going all Columbus on Karl Marx

 From there, we met back up with the other half of the class and visited the Von Nell wine cellar. It was needless to say, a great time. We properly learned how to taste/ appreciate Mosel wine while eating some of the most delicious food I have ever eaten!

First you must smell the wine!

 The next day, we got up and did more touring, as school trips generally like to do, they kept us quite busy. So we went to the Imperial Baths, then the amplitheater, then the Aula Palatina (aka the Basilica).

Forum Baths

How many people can you shove in a forum bath?

Amplitheater

After that, it was lunch, then the Porta Nigra and St. Paulin's church.

Porta Nigra

Porta Nigra

Porta Nigra

 Finally, after all that touring, we got back on the bus, had some cookies, watched Spartacus and returned to Brussels.