Fuck baggage handlers

The plane flight over was fine, it actually seemed a little short. From Philly to Germany it only took a little over 7 hours. Unfortunately my baggage wasn't so lucky, my brand new bag was completely destroyed and some of my cloths fell out the gigantic hole in the side of it. Luckily it arrived at all and the back pack straps aren't too damaged so I should be able to buy a duffel bag and place it inside the backpack bag for the duration of the trip.


We arrived at 7:30am German time, about an hour early so we had a long wait until our ride showed up. Being Switzerland while waiting at the airport a Lamborghini Giardo drove by and almost hit one of our members. We took a ferry across a lake to get to our destination and wow, perfect introduction to beautiful European architecture.


The BA is a very wealthy university with many sugar daddy sponsors. For example the brand new van we rode from the airport in was given to them after doing well at their last competition and when we arrived we saw a 2006ish Mercedes SLK which was given to them for a student project! We saw their support truck which has a super nice tool/part storage system inside and has a hydraulic lift gate about 7'x5' which can probably lift 1000+lbs. Their shop is immaculate with some very very expensive CNC's but not much else, it works for them as most of their parts are made by other companies unlike at OSU. They also have a ton of cool displays around the school like a BMW M10 engine cutaway with a steering wheel mounted to the flywheel so you can turn it and see how everything in the engine works.


Once in town no time was wasted and we got some Donner Kebap and then went to a beer garden.

Later that night we went off to some town for the last night of a festival involving lots of beer and fireworks. Much beer was consumed and fun times were had all around, those Germans sure like to party and smash glass bottles/mugs like the spanish.