TBT extended: germany 2002

i've been having fun participating in the whole throwback thrusday thing on instagram, even though sometimes it does make me feel a little old.  ha!  before TBT, i used to dig up my big box of printed photos and look through them when i was feeling nostalgic. 

since i only post one photo on instagram for throwback thursday, i thought it would be fun to do an extended version on here by posting a few more photos. i'm hoping i'll be consistent about doing this every thursday, but i'm not going to make any promises :).

so...this week's extended TBT:

college spring break 2002 was spent with my sister, astrid, and aaron in cologne, germany visiting my lovely auntie.

i remember the airline lost our luggage for a few days.  i can't remember how long, but it was long enough for me to buy new underwear! we had fun exploring the city including a trip to the chocolate museum and touring the cologne cathedral.

we took a day trip via train to amsterdam, which included a visit to the wax museum while we were there.  i wish we had more time to stay longer than a day trip.  i'm sure there was much more to see and do there.

while this wasn't astrid's or my first trip to cologne, it was a different (though still fun) experience since we spent more time there than we did on our last trip.  And staying with my auntie definitely gave us a taste of what it would be like to live there. 

hope you enjoyed this extended version of throwback thursday!