Wow... I can breathe again.

Not sure if anyone is reading this, or if we're just typing to ourselves ;)

It's been nice having the web since we're both able to blog and give our perspectives, tonight will be the lat night we have it till London.

Today was, as expected to be, an INSANE day. We took it easy in the morning, got our last bit of Euro $$$ traded into smaller bills (hence the pic); then we went got lunch (burger and chicken nuggets from a little local joint), then went to find the castle in the city that we see on top of the hill. For whatever reason the road that leads up to the castle is under construction; and it seems to be the ONLY way to get there. We ended up driving around in vain, and for parts of it ON A BIKE PATH! OOPS! haha. It was a rainy day and kind of a bummer because this is the day we had the track rental :(

After not finding the castle we had a date with the Nuburgring Ring Cam (aaron had told friends to look for him at a certain time on the web cam at the entry to the track). We stood there for about 20 minutes hoping someone would catch screen prints of us (thanks BEN!!!). We will upload those in our pic album later.

After that we went to the track rental location, filled out tons and tons and tons of paperwork; during this time the BMW we had rented was getting it's brakes bedded in, kind of funny coincidence since when Aaron proposed it was all about brakes as well, since we were bleeding them on the STi then... ok had to have a weird girly moment, over it :D

Got the car to the track, and the owner of the car gave us a ride around the track as an instructional session. I sat in the back, and I thought it was going to be a calm ride. HOLY MOLY was a WRONG! I had been feeling a lil sick to my stomach all day, and then getting the ultimate roller coaster ride around the track REALLY did me in. I felt like vomiting while in the car, and was just 100% miserable. There was very few people our driver didn't pass on the track, he's got 4000 laps around the track so sure, he knows it well and can drive it to the ultimate, but wow I didn't need that!

After that I was done, and 100% sure I wasn't going to ride with Aaron or drive myself around the track. I just wanted to be on the ground. I happily took pix of Aaron going around, he did four laps. I held my breathe waiting for him to come back from his first, but after that I knew he would be fine, and was having a blast! During his third I had a heart to hear with myself, and basically told my self to get over it and not pass up a chance of a lifetime. So i went and bought my self a ticket to do a lap. Put on my helmet and waited for Aaron to get back.

He rode along with me, and though I didn't go super fast I still was pretty scared. It was very intense and I noticed I was doing what could be considered "normal high way speeds" but just knowing how insane the track was scared me.

I am SO GLAD i did the lap. It was really an awesome 20 minutes (exaggeration, but you get my point). It's a 21 kilometer track, just HUGE.

We filled up the race car with gas, and returned it.

We got some food, and now are beyond exhausted.
Thankfully the days rain was gone by the time it was our turn on the track, and now we can both officially say we have driven the Nurburgring; a pretty cool accomplishment, even if I do say so myself. Thanks to everyone who peer pressured me before we left the States to make sure I did it, and didn't come back without having driven it.

:D