utensil birds: Strasbourg

Friday morning, 6am, Carla came to my door and woke me up. I decided to suck it up and get up. We met at the train station at 6:20 and took the train from Gare de l'Est to Strasbourg (2.5 hrs)

We went to a hotel for breakfast

Then we visited the Parliament

Where the ceilings were covered with mirrored waves to reflect the sound so the whole auditorium which fits about 1000 people can hear what is being discussed below

Then we had an hour to explore and have lunch

We went to a cute restaurant

and got soup and I got a gingerale. The others got cider.

Jim's salad, us attacking it and picking out the cheese.

Then we went to a brewery and learned how to make beer. Water, hops, malt, and yeast are essential, as we learned.

Passing around the malt and eating it

Passing the hops

Then we walked into the basement and saw all the old advertisements

and after a weird video we beer tasted

I tried Guiness and this fruity strawberry beer which tasted like juice bug hit me quite hard.

A few of my friends had consumed weed cookies/brownies during the day so they were DYING at this point and looked so, so gone. Some later told me they were having a horrible trip, that they thought they were in a bad video game.

At night we toured the church

This beautiful clock not only told time, but it also told you how the moon looked that night, where the planets were aligned and what houses they were in, and each hour, death, youth, adolescence, old age, would come out and ring a bell while cherubs twirled an hour glass and a little bell down below. The clock was not powered by electricity, but rather, someone who pulled ropes every week.

Indeed the moon was exactly how the clock predicted

Dinner! Salad, Fish in riesling sauce and ice cream

We stayed overnight in a cute little hotel. Nassim and I roomed together in the azur room, we lucked out and got 2 beds while some people (Will & Andy) (Iris & Jim) had to share beds in honeymoon suites.

We drove out of Strasbourg