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  West Palm Beach, Florida
Tuesday, June 30, 2009

First and foremost, welcome to our travel blog. We wanted to share our
travels with all our families and friends. So please make sure to keep
in touch and give us lots of suggestions on things we absolutely can't
miss.

Trip Prep

So we have been planning for several months now. We have our plane
tickets (West Palm Beach, FL to Madrid, Spain then Amsterdam to West
Palm Beach), Eurorail passes (21 days unlimited travel within Europe)
and most of our hostel stays booked. Now we are just trying to figure
what we really need to pack. Everything has felt so unreal up to this
point. It seems like it was only a few months ago that Mitch and I were
joking around about going to Europe. Now we are only about a week and a
half away.

Master Plan

So it took alot of reworking to get to this point. We started with
a alot of places in mind. First the plan was to start in Spain and then
circle Europe, stopping in Italy, Czech Republic, Germany, Amsterdam,
Brussels, England and France. Of course all of this wouldn't really fit
into a month, so we shortened it down to the following itinerary.

Madrid Spain to stay with a freind

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Pamplona Spain to participate in the running of the bulls.

Barcelona Spain for some sight seeing and nude beaches.

Cinque Terre Italy for some hiking, incredible views and amazing pesto.

Rome Italy to catch up with our main man the Pope and game it up in the Colosseum.

Munich Germany for ridiculous amounts of beer and pretzels and drunken bicycling.

Prague Czech Republic to take the walk of kings and live it up in the closest thing to eastern Europe that we will get.

Berlin Germany to get us a chunk of the wall and hang out with some friends.

Essen/Leverkusen Germany to hang with some more friends and family.

Brussels Belgium for what else, beer and waffles.

Finally we end it all in Amsterdam to check out M.C. Escher's house and Anna Frank's.

So that's it for now, hope to read all of your comment and keep in touch throughout the trip.

Mitch's Home:

[Dan]
Today we arrived in West Palm beach at about 6:30pm. I think we are all a little anxious and simply ready to begin our trip. We have packed and unpacked our luggage about 3 times already and attempted to shed off as much unnecessary supplies as possible.

We were very warming welcomed by Mitch's mom. After dropping off our stuff, we went to the best seafood restaurant I have ever been to (no joke). Everyone got very different dishes (Tuna, Grouper, Hog Fish and crab cake), all of which were incredibly delicious. Then came dessert, again all were amazing. If this is how we will eat the entire trip, I am certain that we will require an emergency exit seat on the flight back home.

Finally we ended the evening with a nice night cap of two very good vodkas (a French Vodka "Pinaclle" and a Vodka called "The Snow Queen"). The Snow Queen was a very smooth vodka which can only be found in specialty liquor stores. It was probably my first enjoyable shot of vodka.

Now all we can do is try and get some sleep and fly out in the morning. That's it for today.

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