July 17, 1990: Rothenburg to Cologne

We had some leisure time in Rothenburg.  I bought a crystal and went through this gorgeous Christmas store.   We did another concert at 11 a.m.    Then, we took our bus to St. Goar for a Rhine cruise to Koblenz.  Stayed at a Japanese styled hotel in Cologne, Germany.   

July 16, 1990: Rothenburg, West Germany

Today was Mrs. Wibalda's birthday.  We left for Rothenburg, West Germany.  We stopped in this town called Neuschwanstein.   I wasn't feeling very well today, so stayed on the bus.   Mrs. Fox stayed with me to make sure I was ok.  Jeff Grant asked if I had thrown up which made me laugh.

We had a tour of Rothenburg, then a Medieval dinner.   We all had to drink mineral water out of this big horn in order to see who could drink the most.   Chris Logan finished it.    Our meat had a whole jawbone still in it. Plus, we could see some hairs in the meat.  That freaked us all out.  Needless to say, we didn't eat the meat.      Dave Fox played with the jawbone.

July 15, 1990: Innsbruck, Austria

Today was a day of leisure which was nice.   We did some more shopping in Innsbruck.  I bought a leather wallet and a t-shirt of Innsbruck.    I walked with Susan and Mr. Christopher around the town.   I was holding Mr. Christopher's packages and I accidentally dropped one of them.   It was one of his steins he bought.  I felt so bad, as I knew he was collecting these different steins.   

Mr. Christopher was one of the many chaperones that went on this European trip with us.  He was one of our teachers at the high school.

Tonight, we performed a concert at Steinach's Community hall.

July 14, 1990: Brieg to Steinach, Austria

We left Brieg, Switzerland for our 9 hour trip to Steinach, Austria.   In Vaduz, Liechtenshein, I walked around with Mr. Christopher.  We went through at least 20 tunnels on our way to Austria. 

Went to a Tyrolean evening in Innsbruck, Austria.   The dancers did yodeling and German dancing.   

July 13, 1990: Alps Excursion

We left at 9 a.m. for an excursion of the Alps.   Mr. Fox is afraid of heights, so it was hard for him to go on the cable car we took to the top of the Alps.  He suggested that I wrap the camera cord around my wrist so I didn't lose it.   There was a nice lookout at the top.   I walked with Dina and Mr. Christopher through the Alps.  The mountains were spectacular.  They were lightly snow covered which made it so pretty.    I took several photos.   Nick Adams's glasses unscrewed and the lenses fell out.   Luckily, he could see without his glasses.   We saw some goats at the top of the mountains which was neat.  Of course, I was scared to get too close to them.  

In the afternoon, we went to this grocery store across the street.  

We did another concert at 8 p.m.   The crowds enjoyed it and wanted us to perform some more songs so we did.  

July 12, 1990: Castle de Chillon in Switzerland

Today was Matthew Tomasiewicz's birthday.     We went to the tour the Castle de Chillon in Montreux.   It had these sweet passageways you could walk through.   I had pizza and sprite with Susan and Mr. Christopher.   At 12:30, we left for Brig, Switzerland.  It took about 3 hours to get there.   The scenery on the way there was gorgeous. I had never seen anything like it in my life.

When we got to Brig, Mr. Fox hurt his foot when the wheel of our trailer went over his foot.   We went to the thermal baths.  One of the pools had a current that pushed you around so fast.  That scared me.  Mr. Holmen lost one of his lenses in the thermal bath, but luckily found it later on.  

I had a crush on Dave Fox the whole time I was on this trip.  

July 11, 1990: Montreux, Switzerland

I went shopping in Montreux with Dina, Susan, Dina's mother, Mr. Christopher, and Mrs. Fox.   Then, we went to the casino terrace to see our jazz band play in the Montreux Jazz Festival.  There was a pool down below with women swimming in the nude.    The boys on our trip were busy watching them, instead of the concert.   Jason and I had to go to the casino to pick up our t-shirts because they didn't have the black t-shirts that we wanted from the festival. 

In the afternoon, I went to Gruyeres to look around.  I bought Grandpa and Grandma Gonyo a souvenir.    The boys on our trip played soccer across the street from our hotel.  

The view of Montreux at night was gorgeous.   I had a nice conversation with Katie Gingras.   We also played the card game, "Bullshit".