DGF OHHS 2019

Thank you so much Lynn for this great honor. I am very proud of you!!

Traveling can be fun and exciting, but traveling can also be EXHAUSTING!!!
We are flying from Munich to Dallas and then Cincinnati. We are 19 hours into a 24 hour trip at this point.

Tuesday July 16. Saying our sad “until laters”. It was an amazing trip.....the beginning of a lifelong friendship. That’s why we don’t say goodbye!

Monday July 15. Final day. Tonight we celebrated another successful exchange. We put on our Dirndls and Lederhosen and had our goodbye dinner with a surprise video presentation from the Dingolfing media team !!

Thursday July 11. Schulfest. The Dingolfing kids put on a little festival I guess you could call it...fundraiser for their classes. Many good and small games.

Friday was our Munich day. Started with a lovely train ride. After arriving we walked the Main Street and ended up having lunch at the Hofbräuhaus. After lunch we split into groups. Frau Schott’s group went to Schloß Nymphenburg. My high adventure group took a roof top tour of the Olympische Stadium, home of the 1972 Olympic Games!!! Then we went to BMW Welt across the street. Proud of my adventure group, Emma, Joey, Jack and of course Nikolas. Awesome Munich adventure!! P. S. We represented O-H-I-O all the way!!

BMW factory tour today. No cameras allowed, no test rides allowed, no free samples.

Tour of Passau part 3. Our last adventure of the day was a short boat ride. Passau is called the three rivers city. It is the point where the Donau (Danube) , the Inn and the Ilz rivers converge. Because of their paths, the three rivers are all 3 different colors. When they meet, they take a few hundred yards before they actually mix. One cool thing to do is take a boat over them and look down at the mixing waters. Can you see the different colors?? Then a sleepy Gary bus ride home. Tomorrow...BMW plant tour.

Tuesday in Passau part 2. After walking down the hill, we walk through town past the old Rathaus (town hall). Then the kids had 45 minutes to do a scavenger hunt through town. That hunt ended stop the hill on the island where the cathedral is located. Inside the cathedral is the largest pipe organ in the world. We were treated to a 45 minute long concept. Absolutely amazing experience!!

Tuesday in Passau part 1. Today was the group field trip where the kids brought their German partner with them. We went to the bottom corner of Germany on the Austrian border to the city of Passau. We started at the top of one side of The Valley at the castle Veste Niederhaus. It’s about to celebrate its 800 th birthday!!!!

Today we got to meet the county commissioner for the Dingolfing area. He has held this position for 28 years. Next year will be his last. Best wishes!! After he told about his job and the Dingolfing area, he gave us lunch, took our pictures for the local newspaper and let us get some free license plates for souvenirs!!!