This week has been full of field trips to many different places. My teacher's biggest thing is he wants to make it so we have the most experiences and see the most we can rather than just sit in a classroom and read a book. It's awesome.
On Monday we took a trip with my class to Rotterdam, Netherlands which is one of the biggest port cities in the world. We first toured a hotel there which is famous because the same guy who built the interior did the exterior design as well and it's the only building in Europe where it was the same person. It also is a huge building that's not just a hotel but offices, apartments, restaurants and stores as well. Next we toured a hostel. I had never seen a hostel before and it was a lot nicer than I expected. Later in the day we went on a boat cruise around the ports. It started to rain so we just all sat inside but I love boats so it was fun!
Tuesday morning we took a bus to Schiedam, Netherlands. First we took a tour of the cities canals on the cutest boat and I really enjoyed it. After that we toured the Kettle One Distillery. I had never been to one before so it was so interesting to see how it was all bottled, labeled, packed and shipped. At the end of the tour we did a vodka tasting. Sipping on vodka was not my favorite....I don't think I'll ever do a vodka tasting again. Haha it was cool though because it's a family owned company and the 11th generation Notel (family name of Kettle One) gave us our tasting. His father's signature is on all the Kettle One Vodka bottles. To end the day they let us get a drink at their bar and they gave us goodie bags with 4 shooters (different types), a recipe book and a pamphlet of the company history. I learned a lot more than I expected to about the process of making alcohol and production of producing the product. Tuesday was one of my favorite days.
Today we went to Brugge, Belgium! It was a cute city and we had a fun girls day there! It was a much older city...it took us about 2.5 hours to get there and we wanted to make sure we were back for the game tonight so we didn't spend a ton of time there but we enjoyed lunch, ate chocolate and shopped a little then headed home.
Tomorrow we're leaving for Germany. We are spending 2 nights in Berlin and 1 night in the Frankfurt/Heidelberg area. I am really excited for Germany and am ready to start another travel weekend. The Netherlands played in the World Cup tonight so Breda was a blast and we won again!!!
The building/hotel we toured in Rotterdam!
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