AWARDS

Yes: Copenhagen and Oslo were awesome. But as the trip is now over, its time for awards (anecdotes included):

Best Tour Guide: Tie between Ricky in Munich and Robert in Oslo. Together these are the two cities where we can most identify what we walked past, thanks to these dudes.

Most incompetent hostel reception: Sleep-In-Green in Copenhagen, where the teenagers running the place could not even handle assigning people to numbered beds, and ending up having to turn people away who had reservations - really. They also apologized that we would not be in the same room... as if five feet and a large bulletin board constitute the divider between rooms.

Good beer that we had but don't want to rank against each other: Lasko (Slovenia) was great and cheap, Gosser (Austria) was extremely smooth, Dreher (Hungary) was good, and Germany - you rock.

Most lethal man we met: Jim Ross

Coolest hostel in the world: The Loft in Budapest... just go there.

Coolest hostel in the world, if cool meant sucking: Jaegers Hostel in Munich. In addition to the breakfast toast and 80 degree basement, they had amazing showers: You know how water-conservation sinks will come on for like ten seconds when you press them (like in an airplane) and then go off and you can press them again to get ten more seconds of water. THATS HOW THE SHOWERS WERE. Think about it.

Best time that Evan fell asleep and we covered him in cheese: The time Evan fell asleep and we covered him in cheese (Copenhagen)

Favorite City: Munich. We actually unanimously agree on this, and it comes even despite the fact that we stayed in our worst hostel there. Very nice

Coolest club we went to: the 5 story club on the river in Prague, where John and I each danced for three hours while both of us actually wanted to dance with the other's dance partner. We would have switched... but it didn't come up until Munich.

Most Scenic Place: Oslo. It was never dark, and we went to a completely still lake at 2am with a purplish white sky backdrop. It was really peaceful... until we realized we could scream and get huge echoes from the other side of the lake.

Longest running jokes: Evan spends forever writing Anna e-mails, Marshall can't ride a bike, Johns republican.

Ugliest Prices: Oslo - standard bottle of beer in a bar will set you back 12-15 US dollars. No joke.

Best time we got Jim drunk and peer pressured him to let us stay in his apartment while he was out of town: The time we got Jim drunk and peer pressured him to let us stay in his apartment while he was out of town (Prague).

Best foosball table on which I beat John: Budapest. Or Vienna. Or Prague. Or Copenhagen.

Largest foosball table: The Vienna fanzone had a foosball field where the players on the sticks were 5-6 feet tall, and each row of players was controlled by a different person, turning a huge wheel. Neat

Coolest playground: At Rob's old elementary school in Oslo, they had a see-saw type thing where you swing around like ten feet in the air.... John's dismount? 4.6 4.4 4.7 4.6

Best romantic comedy I watched on my Virgin Atlantic flights...: Definitely, Maybe beat out 27 dresses, so I decided to watch Definitely, Maybe twice.

Time Evan glared at me for watching romantic comedies on planes: see above.

Kind of interesting local tradition: In Copenhagen, high school graduates ride around in huge flat beds shouting at traffic while drunk... all day, many days.

Worst local beer: Ozujsko in Zagreb. It tasted like an American Light beer, only not the good kinds like Miller Lite or Keystone Light, but the bad kind like the mix of beer that you had to play the last game of beer pong with because some of the cups had a little Busch Light in them which you topped off with your last can of Pabst. Woof.
(Did you see the Pabst reference coming? I didn't. Who drinks Pabst. Haha, if you say Pabst a lot it sounds like a dirty word. Pabstface)

Dumbest decision any of us made..: Jury's still out.

Least comfortable hardwood floor on which we slept: Rob's floor

Most disagreeable Hungarian woman: The Hungarian woman who would not validate our Eurail passes nor tell us what to do with unvalidated passes.

Most agreeable woman: A woman in Prague approached us on the street at midnight asking us, "Do you have a lighter?" then whispering "sex sex sex". A few hours later we were on our way to the club..

Best meat plate: PLATE OF MEAT (Ljubljana).

Best faux-hawk: John.

Coolest train stop: When riding from Berlin to Copenhagen, our train actually got on a ferry when we had to cross a stretch of water. We had to leave the train and hang out on the deck until we got back to land.

Best families in the world for encouraging us to Eurotrip: Mine, Johns, Evans. Thank you so much for all of your support!

Marshall's Pictures up on Flickr and QUIZ SHOW

My pictures from the entire trip are now up right here. This is the first and only time pictures from my camera have been put online so see them before theyre gone. The last 100 or so pictures are from Copenhagen and Oslo which arent covered in the other albums. This album pretty much has every day of the trip from my camera except today (our 2nd day in Oslo). Enjoy. More pictures from John's camera are also up and Rob's camera will be uploading shortly... so if you have time to kill, there will be about 2000 pictures for your viewing pleasure. Mine are the best though

Five shoutouts to the person who names these five people correctly from our days in Berlin:
1. went to the hospital
2. became Gorbachev when an Irishman ran him into the tree
3. had sex inside a Brazilian inside a bar
4. got a good dose of bird shit on his leg
5. lost his sunglasses in the river