Day 10 - May 12th, 2008

If you thought my entries before were about food, man were you wrong.

Today we went to Neuschwanstein, the famous "Disney Castle" I guess you could say. But, the highlight of this trip was the Italian restuarant we stopped at before the castle trip. The waiter was hilarious, but the food was Godlike... I'm pretty sure I ate the food of god. Our table of 4 guys got 7 dishes, that we all demolished. I got a spicy rigotoni pasta dish and a pizza (it was a personal pizza about a foot in diameter), Mike got lasagna and caprasi, Steve got lasagna and a pizza, and Evan got a pizza. It was hard to finish all of that food, but us Americans never shy away from a food challenge.

The castle was another 2 minute drive past the place, and we hiked up the mountain for a 2:15 pm tour. The tour was really short, which kind of sucked, but the tourguide showed us about 10 rooms. Afterwards we hiked up to a really high bridge that gives the famous pictures of the castle. After that we hiked to the top of the mountain above the gorge/waterfall (probably a quarter mile drop at least) and got some great photos, including each of us with the castle in the background.

On the way back to Augsburg we stopped at a little church that Sonja wanted to see, where I picked up a Bavaria tapestry I guess you'd call it, to put on my dorm wall in the fall. Later that night (after watching Jumanji dubbed in German of course) we went to this "11 to 11" party that was a beach on top of a building in Augsburg. Too bad it was 11 am to 11 pm, not the other way around. Instead we stopped at a really nice bar which we became members of, because it was a smoking bar. I got a good cappacino and we all watched about three quarters of good old German Bundesliga soccer.