Proof I've been to Liechtenstein. (:
We got the chance to be in four countries in one day. We were in
Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Austria and Germany. Who else can say they've been
in four countries in one day? Cool.
After Liechtenstein, we got back on the bus for a long ride through
Austria into Germany. I tried to stay awake for a while, but after an hour I
was fast asleep. Luckily, because I don't sleep much here so I really needed
the rest!(:
We made it to Germany and stopped for lunch at a pretty cafe. Finally got
some American food after so much gross food. We had chicken nuggets, fries, and
macaroni and cheese. Haha. We did however try a cool German drink called Spezi.
It was coke mixed with orange flavors. Kinda reminded me of a dirty diet coke
that I adore from home. It was nice though because I've been craving Wendy's.
Also, Kena and I just want ice. Like. So. Bad. They don't use ice in Europe
hardly ever. Are you kidding? We survive off of ice. So that's been a rough
loss for us.
After our pretty lunch, we headed up to Neuschwanstein Castle. It's the
castle that Cinderella's castle at Disneyland is modeled after. Ummmm. Oh my
gosh. What could be more perfect for me? I'm a straight up princess loving
girl. I'm the princess of princesses. I was so excited. To get there though we
had to walk up a one mile super steep path. For the most part, I have
sucked at picking shoes. I wear hiking shoes for simple strolls around town and
then for this ridiculous hike up a steep mountain, I happened to be wearing
sandals. No one warned me. But it actually wasn't too bad. I'm seriously going
to have hot legs after this trip from all the muscles.
We got up there and it was totally worth the walk. The most gorgeous
castle I've ever laid eyes on. So pretty. I can see why they'd model
Cinderella's castle after it. Ahhhh!(: I was in heaven. It is set all alone in
this enchanted looking forest straight out of a fairytale. We hiked up a little
farther to this amazing bridge between mountains with a perfect view of the
castle. The bridge was kind of sketchy since the wood was old and shifted when
you stepped on it, but I didn't care. The view was perfect. I want to be a
princess and live there. The king who built it only lived there 172 days before
he was murdered. Evidently he was mentally ill and spent like half the treasury
on this castle so everyone was mad. But his murder is a mystery. Him and his
psychiatrist were both killed. Weird.
He had 14 wood carvers working for 4 1/2 years just on the wood in his
bedroom. Crazy detailed.
The castle is unfinished on the interior, but we got to tour the
completed rooms! It was beautiful. We weren't allowed to take pictures inside
to prevent the paintings from deteriorating. We were sad cause I wanted to show
everyone how beautiful it was.
I'm pretty for sure this will have been my favorite part of Germany when
this trip is over. I loved every second. Felt like a princess(: I got a pretty
keychain, postcards, and this darling crown necklace. I was so excited. This
was definitely my kind of thing. (:
After we got to explore the area a little and then we got back on the bus
for a two hour ride to Munich for dinner.
Oh man. The dinners keep getting worse and worse.... Tonight's went
seriously downhill. They started with an appetizer of some sort of soup. And
yuck. Looked like dog food soaked in water. We hated it. And they forgot about
Kena so she didn't even get any. But that's ok because it was terrible. Next
they brought out the main dish. Still confused about whether the side was
potatoes or pasta. But it was alright. Then we had meat. They knew what it was
finally, pork. Not terrible but we only had a few bites and called it good.
Then for dessert we had like a custard with creamed rice and sprinkles. It was
terrible again. The texture was unbearable. So that was my dinner. German food
is even worse than Swiss.
Eww.
Made me feel happy that I got the chicken nuggets for lunch. Good plan.
So.
Funny server though, he was absolutely crazy!(: Melanie, Kena, Mckenna
and I were sitting by Garrett and the server came up and asked him which one of
us was his girlfriend. Garret said we all were and the server congratulated him
and told him good job. He also said that he has two girlfriends and that's
already too much work so Garrett should probably choose two. (: Hahaha. He
asked Henson to move to Egypt with him too. Just a crazy outgoing guy!
After dinner we had another 1 hour ride back to our next hotel.
And this hotel was a joke. Haha. We walked into our room, Kena, Danza,
Cassidy and I, and it was pitch black. We wandered around in the dark looking
for a light switch and none of them worked. Eventually we discovered that you
have to put your room key card in the wall to get the lights to come on.
Next I went to take a shower. The bath water was running but I couldn't
make it come out of the shower head. We had to go ask the front desk how to use
the shower because we thought it was broken. It was complicated but it works.
Then we went to open the window, and behind it was another window.
Weird.
Plus you have to pay for wifi which nobody was happy about.
But it's a nice hotel
like always and we were definitely ready to go to bed. (:
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