August 3rd: Why Not Throw in Germany?

We altered our trip a little bit towards the end. We decided that the Disney castle in Schwangau was too close and incredible to miss. Making the trip would also break up the 6 hour drive to Zurich we were planning on making beforehand. So although it didn't make monetary sense, we left our condo a day early and headed northwest to Fussen, Germany. As we weren't in any big hurry, we slept in very late that day. We didn't get home till late the night before and we deserved to sleep in. We had been on the run for like a month you know?

We stopped several times to take pictures. I have been trying to improve my eye for pictures. (I don't think its working.) However, we did meet some friends that we stopped and hung out with. No, our friends are not from here.

Fred and Julie.

Paul.

Me and Jeff.

Jen and the friendly one.

Bully.

Wassup?!

Dale mamacita.......Takata!

He was rude to Jen.

I made that for her. :)

During one of our picture stops, Jen got attacked by killer ants!! Why do they like her so much??

This particular drive was really easy and well broken up by the picture taking stops. We found the little town just outside of Fussen with out any turn arounds or skull duggery. We drove straight to the wrong place and I asked confidently for our room. The lady seemed somewhat entertained to ask us in english, "are you sure you booked THIS hotel?" My answer, "um......no not really". But she pointed us to our real hotel just down the road. Both hotels had the word pension in them. German is really hard to understand. I mix up the names of things all the time. I frequently say the name of something and just trail off........Jen knows that I can't remember ANY of the german street names she gives me. I wish Germans spoke Spanish.

We got to our REAL hotel and checked in, awkwardly. I couldn't find the reception desk and then left the building to make sure we were at the right place and look at parking spots. The receptionist/waitress came out and got me. Not a smooth interaction, but we got taken care of. Jen was really tired so I took all the luggage up to the room (in one trip I might add) and then we went for a run! Gotta get ready for Vegas!

It felt great to exercise after being couped up in the car all day. We sat down and ate some schnitzel and potatoes for dinner at the hotel. To end the night we stayed up after everyone went to bed and tried to catch up on the blogging. We were the last ones to go to bed and turned off the lights. We were excited to see the castle in the morning!!