+ Satisfied Amy’s meat craving by having another Genuine Hot Dog (at the same place as the day before… “two days and we’re already stuck in a rut,” says Brian. (Amy doesn’t understand this phrase very well…) + Took a picture of a typical Munich Manhole + Met up with the NewEurope free Munich Tour + Learned a lot about the history of Munich and important sites for World War II history + During the twenty minute lunch break for the tour, we weren’t hungry. So we decided to run up the 300+ steps of St Peter’s tower, go around the tower once, and run back down to meet up with the group, almost on time. Amy barely made it up to the top, and almost tripped on her way down. Meghan, the tour guide, was so impressed with what we did that she said she would include our feat in her tour from now on. We are now officially “Legendary.” + Went to the Toy Museum, learned a lot about teddy bear history. Did you know? The Teddy Bear started out as an ELEPHANT. Yep, that’s right. + Went to the supermarket (They sell Pretzels in the bread cabinet!) to get some lunch and ate it on the steps leading up to St. Peter’s. This was a big step for Brian, the first time we went up these steps, he ran away in fear of the birds that flew at him. Brian says “No no! It was the ONE DEVIL BIRD! And it was dark!” Yeah, that makes him sound a lot more manly. + We had no silverware, so Brian had to “drink” his pudding through a straw. We also had these awesome potato snacks called Pom-Bars. They look like teddy bears, but they taste just like McDonald’s french fries! We could only have so many of them… We also bought a slab of sausage. It was cold and it wasn’t very good. + Went to first Jewish Synagogue built after WW II + Rushed back to the hotel to get our things and to walk over to the Train station, bought our tickets five minutes before train departure to Fussen, and ran across the train station to Platform 32. Phew. We made it! But…. + The train conductor checks our tickets after we had settled into our seats and told us in German-English (mostly German) that we needed to be in the “first car” to get to Fussen. So we pick up everything and make our way to the first car, Amy’s shoes hitting people along the way. We go forward until we see nothing but a big impenetrable metal wall in front of us, and we sit down. The train curiously stops in a station for a longer time than usual, but we didn’t think anything of it. When we finally started up again, the conductor sees us, comes over, and says something about going to a place that wasn’t Fussen. She walks away, then brings this random guy who spoke more English and he translated that the part of the train that went to Fussen was beyond the big impenetrable metal wall and the front part of the train had already split from the back part of the train that we were sitting in. He also said that we had to get off at the next stop and catch the next train to Fussen. + We think they made an extra stop just to kick us off. + We make a video explaining our plight (Very good job, Brian!) + We caught a train to Fussen an hour later + Got our first close up glimpses of the Alps! Highly recommended. + Get picked up at the train station by a nice man from the hotel + He takes us on a 2km detour to see Mad King Ludwig’s Neuschwanstein and Hohenschwangau Castles (the reason why we’re here) at night. Very pretty in their spotlit splendor! + Ate very yummy beef at the hotel restaurant. + Everything about the hotel was great, except for the odd problem of too much hot water. The water always got so hot it was scalding! It was very tricky to get it to be even lukewarm. I don’t think we ever succeeded…
