Friday July 27, 2007

After spending our first night in beautiful Garmisch Partinkerchen we woke up this morning and wandered downstairs to eat a delicious breakfast. There were so many options and everything looked so delicious and tasty that we had a hard time choosing what to eat. We got stuffed off the delicious and healthy food and then took the lift down the mountain to go on our adventure in the town. It took us about 35 minutes to walk from the bottom of the lift into town. It was a really nice relaxing walk though because it was on a gravel road with cute little houses and farm land and a couple of pubs. There were people out in their traditional Bavarian dress so that helped add to the surroundings. Our initial plan was to make it to the train station where we would take a train to the Zugspitz mountain which is the highest peak in Germany, but the weather wasn't very good so we ended up just walking around town. We wanted to go up the mountain because on a good day its possible to see up to 4 different countries, but we didn't want to spend the money for something that we wouldn't get to fully enjoy because of the weather. We found some really cool tourist shops and wandered through some cute little towns. We ate Doner again which was not as good as the ones we had in Koln. After spending a while in town we decided to wander back to the Forsthaus Graseck, which was the hotel we were staying at to rest and relax. As we were walking we saw a horse carriage ahead of us and decided that it would be fun to take that to our hotel instead of walking to the lift. It turns out that after waiting a while a group of cute little old ladies had the same thought as us so they hopped in the carriage with us and we rode off to our stop. These ladies were so cute and had so much energy. They kept smiling at us as we looked around and took pictures of everything. It helped make the carriage ride a bit more fun. We didn't do to much the rest of the day except relax, look at the mountains, listen to the goats with their bells run around the grass, and pack up our bags for our trip tomorrow. We did eat dinner again at the hotel and it was so delicious. I think we are gonna miss the good German food when we go back.