| Thursday
morning: With Mary in the parking lot of the Stuttgart Flughafen;
they knew it was morning, but weren't too sure about what day it was… |
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Thursday evening: after
a three hour nap and a big meal at Rauchfang, what could be better than
some pick-up B-ball with some Germans at a nearby high school? It was
already after 9 PM when the Dynamic Duo joined the game, and they ended up playing
for another 45 minutes or so until the light finally gave out. |
| Saturday
at noon: The Dynamic Duo view the world from Beethoven's house in Bonn.
Taylor Harroun: "Kind of a let down." Paul Maass: "The fact that
we were at Beethoven's house hasn't hit Taylor yet…and probably will never hit
him." |
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Saturday afternoon:
Monkey-Boy receives his first lesson in How to Pick Up German Girls.
Be sure to ask Paul about the poster that Garion is holding. |
| Saturday
evening: After an entire day of walking through Bonn, the only people
still awake are the baby and the middle-aged white guy. |
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Saturday morning: outside
the church in St. Mère-Eglise. Note the parachute and mannequin hanging
from the steeple, a tribute to American paratrooper John Steele, who
jumped with the 82nd Airborne before dawn on D-Day. As popularized
in the movie The Longest Day, Private Steele's canopy caught on the
church steeple
and he hung there for several hours—wounded and playing dead—before
finally being cut down and taken prisoner by the Germans. |
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Saturday midday: inspecting the bomb craters and ruined encasements with
Alex at Pointe du Hoc. |
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Saturday
afternoon: Walking the low-tide line at Omaha beach at Normandy. |
| Sunday afternoon: in the main courtyard of Versailles.
It was in the low 90's by this time, and Paul—in the background in a
long-sleeved red and blue shirt—quickly decided that it was worth walking
back to the van to get a T-shirt. |
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