The Ariel Invasion

So I met up with Ariel in Munich after a fantastically gorgeous train ride through the Alps. There were a couple mix-ups at the airport (like me waking up early in Venice and forgetting to check what city she was coming in from...I thought she had a connection in germany). I thought I knew what time she was getting in...but got Google-Calendared...she entered 4:50 on the joint schedule...Central time...google adjusted it for me, so I presumed she was getting in at 5:50 and well...yeah. oops. it would have worked out eventually somehow, but we ran into each other at the internet station. Sweeeeet.

We did dinner at a pretty fantastic vegetarian restaurant, wandered around the downtown portion of munich and crashed pretty early to get ready for the morning drive to Neuschwanstein! Neuschwanstein was downright amazing...so fantastic a time, ridiculously picturesque. Mad King Ludwig II was a little extravagant and probably got killed for spending so much money on castles...but they were definitely amazing. Words really don't do it justice...look at my pictures :)

That afternoon we got back into Munich for more walking around and sightseeing, we stuck to downtown for the most part, went into one of the cathedrals, saw Marienplatz and the associated Rathauses and such. Dinner was at the Hofbräuhaus because we're tourists and I wanted beer! Deliciousness.

We woke up nice and early again on Tuesday, off to do one last bit of sightseeing before driving to Regensburg for lunch on the Danube, however, our car had different plans and refused to lock. fucker. It treated me so well on the Autobahn (up to 195 kph, 122mph) but didn't want to lock. Boo! So we had to trade in the car and miss a little bit of sightseeing. Thankfully the airport was in the right direction for the rest of our plans...