This is the castle of Lichtenschtein. I believe the princess still lives there. 
Reilyn is all bundled up!!
This is in Rothenburg, outside of the famous Christmas Museum.
Sunday, December 11, 2005
Lichtenschtein and Rothenburg
This is the castle of Lichtenschtein. I believe the princess still lives there. This is in Rothenburg, outside of the famous Christmas Museum.
Innsbruck
I thought this was a fun one because my maiden name is Glauser-- which is Swiss-German 
The inside of St Jakobs kirche (church). This is what most of the churches around here look like inside.
The famous gold tiled place. The roof is all gold. Salzburg
Reilyn found her Mercedes! The lady in the store said she could ride the red one,because it was the cheap one at $600-- while the others were probably $2,000
This is one of the places from the Sound of Music!
Saturday, December 10, 2005
Neuschwanschtein Schloss (Castle)
King Lugwig's Neuschwanschtein Schloss. He only spent 10 days in the castle in the condition that it is in today, before he died, or was assassinated. Only 1/3 of the castle is finished. It is such a beautiful, fairytale castle.
This is where he grew up. It is a castle across the mountain from the one he built.
This is the beautiful view.
Munich
the Rauthaus in Munich
Rauthaus in Munich (city hall)
Lion statues all over the city
the Chinese tower in the English Gardens
check out all the swans in the background
the dome of Love
This Lion is in a courtyard where Hitler would make alot of his speechesUpdate!
Are you suprised that I am updating our blog? Sorry it's been a while. I need to block out an hour once a week, so that I can update this! Sorry.
Well, since I've posted last, we had the chance to visit Munich. My cousin Becky Glauser was staying there for a while, so we were able to stay with her. We had a fun visit. Munich has lifesize statues of lions everywhere. Each lion is painted a different way, and has a different theme. That was Reilyn's favorite part. She was on a quest to find as many lions as she could, and wanted me to take a picture of her with each of them! We were able to visit the beautiful castle Neuswanstein (I know I'm spelling it wrong.)
Becky was able to come back home to Wuerzburg with us. We decided we wanted to travel a little bit, so we went down to Salzburg, Austria. We stayed there for a day and night and loved it!! It's where Mozart was born and grew up, and it was also where the Sound of Music was filmed. It is a beautiful city. Then next day was a pretty crazy one for us. We woke up early, and went straight to Innsbruck-- which was also a very charming town. The drive there was amazing! We were driving the huge Alps the whole time, and actually going through them in dozens of tunnels. One tunnel was 14 km long. We were pretty nervous in that one.
From there we drove to the smallest country called Lichtenstein-- which is only about 40 miles long, and probably 3 miles wide! It took us less than an hour to drive through it (the long ways).
Then we decided to go to Zurich, Switzerland and stay the night there. Well, once we got there, we drove around looking for a hotel, and discovered that the cheapest hotel we could find would have cost us $150! We decided that we would just eat something there, and drive back up to Germany and find a hotel there. We did, and found the most charming little hotel, that was beautiful, and only cost us $5o. So we thought it was pretty cool that we were in 4 different countries in one day.
This past month has been fun to see all the little Christmas Markets. But we are difinitely getting homesick as Christmas approaches. We got snow a couple days after Thanksgiving, and it stayed for about a week. Reilyn and I built a little snowman, and she loved it! She still talks about how sad she is that it melted.
I'll try and find some good photos to post from our trips.
Well, since I've posted last, we had the chance to visit Munich. My cousin Becky Glauser was staying there for a while, so we were able to stay with her. We had a fun visit. Munich has lifesize statues of lions everywhere. Each lion is painted a different way, and has a different theme. That was Reilyn's favorite part. She was on a quest to find as many lions as she could, and wanted me to take a picture of her with each of them! We were able to visit the beautiful castle Neuswanstein (I know I'm spelling it wrong.)
Becky was able to come back home to Wuerzburg with us. We decided we wanted to travel a little bit, so we went down to Salzburg, Austria. We stayed there for a day and night and loved it!! It's where Mozart was born and grew up, and it was also where the Sound of Music was filmed. It is a beautiful city. Then next day was a pretty crazy one for us. We woke up early, and went straight to Innsbruck-- which was also a very charming town. The drive there was amazing! We were driving the huge Alps the whole time, and actually going through them in dozens of tunnels. One tunnel was 14 km long. We were pretty nervous in that one.
From there we drove to the smallest country called Lichtenstein-- which is only about 40 miles long, and probably 3 miles wide! It took us less than an hour to drive through it (the long ways).
Then we decided to go to Zurich, Switzerland and stay the night there. Well, once we got there, we drove around looking for a hotel, and discovered that the cheapest hotel we could find would have cost us $150! We decided that we would just eat something there, and drive back up to Germany and find a hotel there. We did, and found the most charming little hotel, that was beautiful, and only cost us $5o. So we thought it was pretty cool that we were in 4 different countries in one day.
This past month has been fun to see all the little Christmas Markets. But we are difinitely getting homesick as Christmas approaches. We got snow a couple days after Thanksgiving, and it stayed for about a week. Reilyn and I built a little snowman, and she loved it! She still talks about how sad she is that it melted.
I'll try and find some good photos to post from our trips.
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