Day 1 of our germany trip- we rode a trip....ALLLLL DAYYY!!! then we got to our hotel which was really nice, ate an amazing meal...weiner schnitzel is AMAZING!! its breaded veal sooooooo good. then i went to bed.
Day 2- well due to Ev's ear-busting-snoring and the fact that our beds were touching each other, i didn't get much sleep. i've also been missin things at home and ppl buuut, thats irrevelant. so we ate breakfast and headed to the trainstation, but the trains were shut down for construction...soooo we had to take a bus to Berchtesgarden. we had gotten about 1.5 inches of snow it was really nice. we got to the salt mine and made a snow man along the road it was fun...then had snow ball fights in which my LCD screen on my camera was broke...not a happy camper bout that...but the tour was fun sliding down the huge wooden railings...we had to wear really funny clothes...HUGE clothes...afterwards we ate, looked at the shops, then went to Salzburg for a lil bit then back to the hotel and we ate gyros YUMMY! then bed
Day 3- we got up at 7...ugh...grabbed a quick bite then headed back to berchtesgarden. we then took another bus to Konnigsee. and got on a boat and took a very nice tour of a lake in between the bavarian alps. it was really nice and relaxing...we could see the eagles nest from the lake. then we got to some little place w/ a church and spent 2 hrs relaxing there. then we trained back to salzburg and walked through the park that was in the Sound of Music movie...it was really really nice i think if it was summer or spring or fall it would be the best one thus far....bbbuuuuuttt...instead it was covered w/ snow and everything was dead lol. o well...then we toured mozarts houses...i guess that was aight...i kinda just ran through both...then i used a computer and headed back and went to bed.
Day 4- today we got cleaned up, ate breakfast, and headed to munich to hit a train to Dachau which was the first concentration camp of WWII started way before the war in 1933. we toured the museum, watched a movie, and walked around the camp...it was very somber. then we had worship in the chapel...Papa T made a good statement. "this is a very good place to worship, seeing as there were probably more prayers said to God from this place than anywhere else in the world." i think this was an amazing statement...pictures nor books will ever do this place justice....no words can ever make someone relive the feeling of walking on the same ground the 60 years before people were tortured and killed on....afterwards we went back to munich, grabbed some super, went to the hotel, watched some more german tv lol, then hit the hay.
Day 5-we got up at 8, ate breakfast, and hit a train at munich. then hit another train to the neuschwanstein castle...(cinderella castle) we toured it...yada yada yada...it was nice...then Ev and i went for a walk and took some awesome pictures of the castle. then we came back to the hotel, chilled, and went to bed...we were on a train for a total of 8 hours UGH...not fun!
Day 6- today we got up at 6:30 GAY!!! then we hit a train to salzburg then another one to vienna for 3 hrs. we went to the hapsburg palace...toured it...blah...then we played hacky sack out in the gardens behind it...now that was fun lol. then ev, ferg, watson and i just chilled and walked around for a few hrs. then we grabbed a bite to eat and headed back to salzburg and back to the hotel...i took a walk and got away for a while...it was SOOOo nice!!!
Day 7- Free Day!!! YAY! we slept in til 8:30 or 9, ate breakfast, and watched watson get new boots to go hiking (foreshadowing of unfortunate events for watson lol) we headed to berchtesgarden. than, loren, caleb and i went to a place and almost got a tour to the eagles nest but we couldn't so we found watson and met up w/ the guys and got a taxi halfway up the mountain that the eagles nest on....so after the crazy fast taxi ride we started our climb up the mountain...severely unprepared for a 10 mile hike up 1000 vertical meters...it wasn't an easy climb but than and i made it up just under 2 hrs. so we spent lots of time resting at the peak at the eagles nest...we didn't get to go in but we talked to a tour group about it they were really nice. then 30 mins later the other 5 guys came hobbling up. watson's heel was rubbed raw from his new boots so he was having to stop every 30 mins...we got a group picture and rested for a while then trecked back down...it was soooo beautiful at the top. i've now jumped into the swiss alps and climbed the bavarian alps its great. then we got down in an hr and 20 mins, grabbed a few taxis ate at an amazing!!! resturant...i got spare ribs, steak, and a baked potato for 10 euros. it was sooooooo good...then we headed back and went tooo bed we were soo tired...we also packed too. p.s- mom once again u were right...don't eat a 2 day old sandwich...it makes u really sick!!
Day 8- we rode trains...ALLL STINKEN DAY!! then we got back unpacked did laundry, ate, and chilled and went to bed...
HERE YA GO KIMMIE!! i hope u like ur pictures lol. miss and love ya bud! i never have ur number w/ me when i make calls home but one of these days i'll get to call ya. just think 24 more days then guess who's comin home??!!
