WHAT A WEEK!
This is not a trip for the faint of heart or anyone looking to chill out, eat regularly or turn in early. But for adventurous travelers looking for something different, this be the trip. 
 Arriving in Europe, we all were buzzed with excitement for the competition.  Not knowing where we would be going the [...]

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  Fortunately for us,  Judie’s cousin Marina lives in Paris and decided to accompany us on the day’s adventure.  We had decided to go to Reims to the Pommery Champagne headquarters – between the train ticket and the lunch, not an inexpensive choice but as it turned out, definitely worth it.  Dashing for the train, we [...]

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Team Valley Girls has been so busy making hilarious and creative videos (in our unbiased opinion, of course), that we haven’t had time to blog but here we are again. 
Currently we are on a train from Amsterdam to Brussels studying our challenges for today which include something to do with  the world’s only French Fry [...]

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Day 1 
Omigod! You wouldn’t believe it!  
  Met all the other teams in Newark, a real mixed bag.  Got very little sleep, arrived in Frankfurt at 8:30AM, got on a train to Cologne, where we checked into our hotel and dashed out to meet our first challenge(s).  
Here’s how it works, all eleven teams choose from [...]

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Judie is usually our writer and I am the technician (don’t fall off  
your chair laughing, Mikel), but she’s very busy getting ready to go,  
so I will be the one to throw down the gauntlet to you other teams.   
Judie and I have been traveling together since college, when we went  
to Europe on [...]

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