Day Two...Autobahn, Pottery Market, and Neuschwanstein Castle

Day two in Germany was crazy busy.
We got up around 8...with not nearly enough sleep. But going to the party in exchange for sleep was worth it, for sure. :)
Leslie and I went with her parents to meet her grandparents at a famous pottery market...apparently people from all over Europe go there.
We went into the little town it was in though, which was hundreds and hundreds of years old, and went into the catholic church there. It was really pretty...but I have NO idea how any one actually concentrates on the sermon. ahaha.
Oh, and we went on the autobahn (ya know, the highway with no speed limit). After years of hearing about it in classes at school, I finally got to go on it. How fast did we go? I have no idea. Because they don't measure it by miles per hour...




We went to Neuschwanstein Castle (please don't ever ask me to actually say that name) which is in the Alps. It was pretty much tourist central there too...there were people from everywhere. And instead of taking a horse carriage, or a bus...we walked up to the castle (which was pretty brutal since Leslie and I only had 4 hours of sleep). The castle was INSANE though. Literally. It was insane. It took 17 years to build this thing. That's how crazy it was. And the rooms were so busy and detailed, I didn't even know what to look at, so most of the time I found myself looking out the windows...and the look outside the windows...that was amazing (that's the reason King Ludwig built it there in the first place). I can't even describe to you how beautiful it was. I preferred the outside of the castle to the inside. :)


We went on another short hiking trip after the tour, to see the outside of the castle from afar, only to find that the entire side of the castle was covered with plastic!! haha! :) I guess you can't always have the best of luck. On the hike back down it began to pour. It was beautiful weather outside and it changed in an instant. It reminded me of Minnesota. :)


Oh, and just on an end note...We were driving home, and they turned on the radio...and what was playing?
American music.
In between the songs, the radio host would talk, and what name did I hear?
OBAMA. And they went on and on and on about Obama, and everything else that's happening...in America.
What?
Yeah.
That's what I thought.
I knew that America was present in other countries...but seriously....that's crazy. Or at least I think so. Everyone here knows the songs from America...from "Boom Boom Pow" (that chickens jackin my style!) to the oldies.
In fact, the band at the party from the night before not only played traditional Bavarian music, they also played "Hey Jude" and "Sweet Home Alabama."
What in the world?