Family Reunion

Mom and Pop were here for 18 days. They arrived Frankfurt at the day my brother wrote his last exam and I couldn't concentrate anymore for my last exam. So I just hope that I could pass this exam. Otherwise, chaos! :(

So. After I wrote my exam, I headed directly to Darmstadt. I stayed over at Eca's place for the last time. Eca is going back to Indonesia for good :( My best friend since 9 years (and still counting!) has passed her bachelor of chemical engineering defence and decided to go back to Indonesia, supporting her parents' business. We actually had planed a farewell trip to Dresden, but my parents came. So we changed the plan and Eca stay with us for 2 nights in Stuttgart, which was nice as well.

This trip had a theme: automobile-museum tour. We started directly after we put our belongings in Stuttgart to the Porsche Museum. The next day we went to Mercedes Museum. The day after that we headed to Zuerich and said goodbye to Eca :'(

The trip continued. 3 nights in Zuerich, 3 nights in Vienna, 2 nights in Salzburg and 2 nights in Munich. And then back to Wuerzburg for 2 nights before my parents and my brother fly back to Jakarta.

Highlights of the trip:

• Zuerich: WOW- scenery along alpen tour with the Bernina Express. We had difficulty taking pictures. The price we paid for this trip alone, worth it. (well, without Eurail it was more than 100 euro p.P pro direction).
• Vienna : Mozart concert in the grand hall of Musikverein. I love the atmosphare. I love the solists! I love the music and the dresses they wore. And the best part was our seats were extended from C class to the B or A class without costing us an extra cent! We sat on the balcony in a classical hall furnished with gold, just like you saw it in film :) We went to concerts every night. There was a children choral festival on the other night, but dominated by chinese groups. The first group was an awesome acapella group from Sweden or somewhere else. All girls and all blond! The last group was also cool,from Beijing I guess. One of the MCs was all over his head MC-ing. Best schnitzel ever I would recommend at Gasthaus Placutta near the Staatsoper. Recommended museum: Mozarthaus. If you are not familiar with Mozart's history, you'll learn a lot there. Definitely.
• Salzburg : tour Sound of Music!! Actually I expected that we could visit more places than that. Weather was horrible. But the scenery was beautiful! Wolfgangsee and Mondsee were incredible. The tour guide was quite funny. But if you sit next to your brother, who started to watch "The Sound of Music" on Youtube without earphones as the trip had just begun, that can be really really annoying.

Wien at night

Prater at night

In Munich, we visited the BMW-Museum. Mmm. No, actually my dad and my brother. I asked my mom to see the Olympiapark next to the museum. But it started to rain, so we went to Sealife inside the park. Haha. Sea World in Ancol is much better :) Anyway, we two had took a small "train" for a fifteen-minute tour through the olympiapark before it started to rain.

At last, we went to Frankfurt and met Thomas there. Yes, I introduced Thomas to my family :) We ate in the biggest McDonalds in Europe (said Thomas to his fam). Mom, Pop, and Galih flew back to Indonesia and I stay here, enjoying  my 4 weeks in Linnich/ Juelich with Thomas and my band and Thomas' fam and friends in Juelich.

Gadis kembang

The backside of Schloss Schonbrunn

Salzburg from above

The backside of Von Trapp's house and the lake in the sound of music film

Sixteen going on seventeen scene

Mirabell Garden - Do Re Mi scene