Castle Garden

So I took my ginormous intensive german test that I just stayed up till 1 o’clock for and woke up at 7 for and the good news is it wasn’t as bad as I thought it would be but the teacher that I didn’t study his information really at all (cuz he gave us like no information) was the hardest part!!! He put so much hard stuff on there that I had no idea what he was talking about or what it was asking me to do and then we had to answer in complete sentences in german and it was hard =(

But then we got rewarded and got to hop on the buses and go to this castle that has the most amazing garden of my life!! People don’t even go there to see the castle they go there to see this beautiful slash massive garden that is I don’t know how many acres wide! It reminded me of the garden of the castle in the princess diaries two, except much much bigger and much much better! It was pretty cool! Except we had to follow Her. Lerner around for like 5 hour lectures every 5 feet! I would have much rather just walked around with a few friends and enjoyed the garden myself and I would have got to see a lot more of it but instead when the tour he gave was over we were allowed to go and do whatever we wanted but I was way too tired by that point to go explore on my own! Got some really good pictures there so I’ll be sure to post them!

The Schwezinger Schloss (that means castle! And I still can't spell in German!) It was better than  The Princess Diaries castle!

Oh, just the backyard!!

And more of the backyard!

Roomies slash Humanities 5 hour Dr. Lerner tour that we almost ditched several times buddies
Valerie Clack Says: "How could you even consider ditching Dr. Lerner????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :D
Me: "haha!! That made me laugh soooOOOoo hard!
Alex Says: "I love you. What would I do without you? :)

Awwwww.... friendship!

That's the other humanities group, too far away to tag

All worn out and still so much more to listen to...

So cute!

Snuck away for a quick pic!

Straight up Rocky style! Carter would be so proud!
Emily Jones Says: "Shannon, you're so cute"
Carter Says: "Get 'em Shan!"

Definitely love!! Haha!

Uh oh!! Watch out!! I couldn't resist!
Sister Says: "Oh sister, at least he can't turn you down."
Me: "haha! You're so mean!!"

So he's spreading his legs really far apart and bending and I'm on my tippy toes and I'm still nowhere near reaching his hands!! Haha! It was a good try though!

Looked like a good frolicking in fall picture opportunity!
Sister Says: "Why aren't you jumping higher?? Use those leg muscles..."
Me: "I know right?? She's a dancer and puts me to shame!! I'd like to say I've already landed!

I don't really know what this is... maybe a tool shed? It was behind the castle??

Perfecto!! And Jill popped in unexpectedly with the best face of all! Such a natural!

Another little part of the castle!

I think this came out really cute!

Ian was so cute! He was trying so hard to pretend to hide he kept ducking too far below the bushes! 

Now THAT is an amazing pose! Look at the form!

Awesome!

That is actually water coming out of my mouth... some people think I aligned myself perfectly with the fountain haha!

Oh and then we went to the train station after being completely exhausted from walking around all day and I tried to exchange my eurail cuz I bought the wrong one since of course that would happen to me, and it didn’t work so it was a trip for no reason but I got it all straightened out $90 later =( whatever it’s my fault for not reading carefully and understanding what the eurail I was buying was saying…. It happens… but the good news is todays day is almost over and I get to go on my first experience of traveling tomorrow!!! Next stop… the black forest/bodenboden/some cool flower island! It should be a pretty good weekend!

Luv shannon