Fun Facts!
You know, when many people come home from trips, they just tell you the basics. Like, where they went, the historic buildings they saw, this and that. BUT, it's times when people tell the bizarre little details about their trip that others really start to pay attention and notice how great of a trip it must have been. Kind of like a trivia book, only better! So enough chit-chat, let's start the fun!
Most times in one day that I ate ice cream: 4
Flavors I tried: Strawberry, Banana, Vanilla, Mulberry, Triple Chocolate, Apple, Pineapple, Lemon, and Raspberry
And most mothers say to never have more than one bowl of a ice cream a day, tops!
Most popular female name on trip:
Jennifer (13, including me!)
Most popular male name on trip: David
(6)
Largest Ambassador group to visit Champery, Switzerland: Iowa! 477 musicians
(second place goes to Wisconsin with 235 musicians)
Favorite food of past tour members:
Bread and nutella! (nutella is like a thick chocolate
syrup)
First Iowa Ambassador tour: 1988
Water closet = bathroom
# of hours spent in the Detroit airport when flight overseas
was canceled: about 12!
Estimated amount of $$ Northwest spent on my flight that
was canceled: 40,000!!!
(this was printed in a newspaper in Denver, Colorado I believe. Some of their costs? Putting 50 or so of us up in the Marriott, many pizzas and crates of pop to feed us at 3am in the airport, 3 different meal vouchers - about $25 per person, plane tickets up to Canada, etc)
# of times I ate at a McDonald's: only
twice, thank goodness!
(once we had to, second time it was to save time in the airport)
Most used phrase while on the trip:
It's a cultural experience!
(a close second goes to "Hey, we're flexible")
Price paid to mail one postcard:
$1.40 in Austria, $1.30 in Switzerland, 80 cents in
France - but don't quote me on those!
Please? Bitte - German, S'il vous
plait - French, Por favore - Italian
# of visitors to Dachau's concentration camp each year: 700,000
That's all she wrote! For now anyway... Hope you enjoyed this useless info. Hey, if anything, now you've had a taste of what I lived for 20 days... We survived it though. Cause after all, ya know, "we're flexible"! haha