Europe: part 3

Fussin:

Thinking our alarm would be going off at six to make our 6:51 train, we woke up at 640 in a panic! We both got out of bed, changed and ran to the train station as fast as our little hurt feet could get us to go in order to catch it.  One thing I learned while in Europe, German trains are NEVER late.  Brian and I watched our train pull away as we ran up to it at 6:53.  It was ok because we decided to go ahead and get some breakfast pastries (johannisbeer streusel and Butterbreze). I actually had some time to get my hair brushed before the next train left for Fussen an hour later.  This is the day I discovered the most disgusting thing in Germany..I am sure you have heard of it, it is called carbonated water.  Yes, it is as gross as it sounds.  If you want to try some, just press the soda button at Taco bell and taste what comes out. Its disgusting.  After waiting an hour on our train, the train starts to pull away and down plops two Asian girls who talk NON STOP in Chinese for the 2 hour train ride to Fussen! 

We had fun tho taking pictures out the window :)

When we got to Fussen, we grabbed a bus to take us the half mile to the castles.  I am sure you are thinking, oh ½ mile, we could have walked... No we couldn't have, our feet would have fallen off. We got to the castle area and bought passes to see both castles.   We first saw hohenschwangau.  I was loving this beautiful castle the whole time we were inside and outside of it!  

Brian knew the next castle would be way better.  My thoughts though were, that nothing can beat the bedroom with stars that could be lit from behind and the hanky-panky secret tunnels between the king and queen’s rooms.  

After going through that castle, we hiked up the "40min" trail in 20 minutes, by which time Brian was dying of hunger. We got 2 salami sandwiches called semmel, then continued our hike to the marienbrucke (bridge) which was totally worth it. 

 

We crossed this beautiful bridge, and off to the right of the bridge, the alps, to the left, the beautiful castle.  Of course Brian was right, The 2^nd castle was SO much better than the other castle.  The tour of this castle was awesome (except for those dang Asians in our tour group who talked the whole time and cut us off at every corner of the castle) Inside this castle, we saw his man made cave, his private concert hall with different statue pieces on top of the pillars, the throne room without a throne and a huge chandelier with 1100 candles, and the secret door to his bathroom, that had a padded chamber pot.

After touring this beautiful castle, we headed back on the bus to the train station where a train took off for Munich just 5 minutes later.  When we got back to Munich, we went straight into a schnitzel house to get a bite to eat. It was neat to see that most waiters and waitresses wear dirndl and lederhosen (the formal German attire). After eating some yummy dinner we walked around looking for a Market place that sold delicious German chocolate.  We couldn't find one in the area we were in, so we took the train (s Bahn) to Giesing where Brian served his mission for 6 months and knew exactly where a store was for chocolate.  I have never witnessed with my eyes an adult act like an awestruck kid in a candy store.  He loaded up on way too many treats.  We actually tried to see if the elders were home so Brian could see the apartment he lived.  They weren’t home though, dang. Brian said it was so much fun seeing and smelling Munich and the things he saw and did just 5 years ago.  He kept saying that he was getting these feelings of dread, that he needed to be doing missionary work after all our p-day activities were finished.  He is silly.