This morning we woke up and traveled about an hour to Neuschwanstein Castle, built in 1869, home of Ludwig the II, Bavarian king. The king only lived there a few months before he died, and actually the castle is not finished to this day. We toured the inside, but unfortunately no pictures were allowed. It was amazing....just like a fairy tale. It reminded me of Beauty and the Beast. We saw the servants quarters, the throne room, the opera room, the kings bed chambers, dining room, and some other rooms. I kept thinking how awesome it would be to live there, and look out the window and know that you rule all of what you see. Inside the castle is was so detailed and ornate. I can't even describe how awesome it was. At one point the thought crossed my mind that as beautiful and unbelievable as that castle was, heaven will be even better!! Men created that castle...imagine what God has for us! Anyway, because the castle was built in the late 1800s it was pretty modern. It had running water in the sinks, and a flushing toilet, as well a working telephone. The throne room was so beautiful, with a huge painting depicting Jesus as King of Kings right above the throne. I also thought it was cool that the bed chambers had pictures of the Tristan and Isolde story. My sisters will appreciate that. So anyway, really really cool castle. I got a postcard...haha. It was quite a hike up though!
It rained all morning, so we were all pretty soaked. Again, I didn't mind because it is all so awesome!
There was a castle on the opposite hill called Hohenschwangau I think. We opted not to go inside of it, but it was a cool view for sure. The view as we hike up to the castle.
And the view once we got up there!
At the foot of the castle. There was a little gift shop right there. This is where I got Emery's beer stein.
While we were waiting in the rain for our tour to start. How many people can fit under one umbrella?
After we toured the castle, we walked through to the other side where we could hike over to this bridge that passed over a waterfall. This picture was halfway up the hike to that.
The waterfall! It was such a high way up.
The view of the castle from the bridge.
It reminds me of the castles on the Disney movies...mostly the one on Snow White.
After we passed the bridge, a few of us kept going and hiked on some less-traveled trails that went even higher! It was me and four guys. I'm so glad I followed them, because although scary, it was probably one of my favorite things I have done so far. Such a rush!
And what an amazing view from up there! These pictures, while still awesome, won't even do justice what I saw.
I needed to sit down for a sec. When I was standing I felt like I could fall over the side at any second, haha. Plus I could just take it all in.
OH MY GOSH!! This is the coolest thing in the world. Like a foot behind where I'm standing it just went straight down.
I was pretty proud I climbed up there....I have never done anything like that before.
You can see how it just drops off. Plus it was wet and kinda slippery. I had already taken a bit of a fall the day before..
So...obviously this is how I was feeling.
But look at that view! haha.
Wow. Like a postcard....but I was there....looking at this!!
It is so awesome that I look photo-shopped into this.
My shoes are so gross now...and just soaked. I'll have to buy some news ones for sure before school starts back.
This was on the bus ride back. Still so pretty and the clouds cleared away a bit...Sun came out some.
We passed by this sweet lake at the foot of the mountains. I think this is the one that I took a picture of from up high.
So that's all for the weekend. I can say this was the coolest thing ever!! I'm definitely more into nature and God's creation than monuments and ancient ruins, that's for sure. For future reference for vacations, I want to do stuff more like this. Everyone here agrees. A bit of a story: so we hiked way up there just of us. Well after we got down we were saying how awesome it was. A guy and a girl decided they were gonna go do that and said they'd be back in an hour. So we waited for them and shopped around town for a while. Well we waited about 2 hours and they still weren't back. Although we were a bit worried we thought they'd find it back so we took our bus back to our hotel. After we were back an hour we started to get worried. We said if they don't make it back by tonight we would tell Winegeart and possibly have to send out a search team! We thought for sure that one of them was hurt. Well as we were all sitting in the lobby about the possible bad things that could've happened, they pulled up on their bikes. Apparently they got lost and went 2 miles out of the way. At one point they apparently were screaming for help! Crazy crazy. Although that description may not sound like much of a big deal, it certainly was for us for about 3 or 4 hours today. So its definitely been an adventure. As a group we have eaten a snail, crashed a bike, gotten lost in the Alps, and much more. I'm about half-way through the trip now. This week will be busy I think...and the last one in Leipzig before we go to Berlin and then Oxford. Next weekend I'll be visiting Marilyn and Jeremy. Very excited about that! Tomorrow (Sunday) I travel back to Leipzig. I think our train is from 11-8:30....wow. Bedtime now....already excited for a German breakfast!!
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