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| Sunday, May 21 – Participate in the morning worship service in
Haiger. Then travel to Neuwied where we will perform a concert this evening. |
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Monday, May 22 – Today we head down the Rhine River for a relaxing cruise! Before we get on the boat we may visit the Bierkenstock factory store. Evening with host families in Neuwied. |
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 We toook a cruise down the Rhine River. It rained for most of the trip so the upper deck was fairly clear. Our group huddled under umbrellas and took in all of the sights. |
 One of the many castles we saw along the way. There were well over twenty that we passed in the course of our two and a half hour trip. |
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 A brief pause in the rain allowed some of us to lower our umbrellas. |
 The Loreley. Legend says a maiden lures fishing boats towards the rocks. |
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 Our hosts ate and sang hymns with us. We sang some in German as well as English. |
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Tuesday, May 23 – Today we are on to Leipzig, home of J.S. Bach. Hotel stay for the next 2 nights. |
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 The German Countryside that we saw on our way to Buchenwald and then on to Leipzig. |
 The gatehouse for the Buchenwald Concentration Camp. |
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 Where the barracks that housed thousands of Jews, Russian POWs as well as others, once stood. |
 The bell tower that stands as a memorial for those who died at Buchenwald |
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Wednesday, May 24 – Leipzig, Germany. |
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 The square right outside of the Nikolaikirche. This was the center of the nonviolent movement that brought about the fall of the the Eastern German Government. |
 The Thomaskirche . This is one of the churches in which Bach played. He was in charge of music in this church as well as four others in the city of Leipzig. |
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 Inside the Thomaskirche is Bach's tomb |
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Thursday, May 25 – We travel to Rothenburg, Germany, to visit an old monastery…etc. Lodging in a nearby hotel. |
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 The altar of the holy blood found in the back of the church in Rothenburg ob der Tauber. We spent one night here in Rothenburg. |
 Looking down on Rothenburg from the city hall. It was a medieval walled city. We were fortunate enough to be able to spend the night inside the city walls in a hotel that was over four hundred years old. |
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 The oldest building in the city. It was built around 900 AD and now is a pub called Hell. |
 A view of the city wall |
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 The quartet again set out their bowl to try to earn a little cash. This time they were fairly successful. They drew a good sized crowd. |
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Friday, May 26 – Travel south to present a concert and stay in homes in the Weierhof area where Rachel Whitmer, a former Hesston College student will be our contact person. |
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 We gave a concert to the people of Weierhof and a few fellow Americans that were there with the Intermenno Trainee Program. The concert went fairly well. Afterwards a group ofchoir members met at one of our hosts home. They had an apartment above a gym that housed two large trampolines. We had fun taking pictures of people jumping off onto large mats on the floor. Here Jon Huber is doing the superman thing. |
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Saturday, May 27 – Into the Black Forest today. Concert in Emmendingen. |
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 Today we traveled to Strasburg right on the boarder between France and Germany. |
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