Thursday July 26, 2007

This morning we woke up at about 8:15 so we could get dressed and pack our stuff before going to breakfast, which was included in the price of our room. It was really good and tasty too just like all of the meals we have had in Germany. After breakfast we went back up to our room and started bringing our bags down to the bottom floor. Once we had our bags down we checked out and paid for our room. The lady who was working at the desk even called a taxi for us so that was really helpful. We made it to the train station in time for the early train to Munich. Once we made it to the train station in Munich we ate some lunch and went to the next set of tracks for our train to Garmisch Partinkerchin. It was a short train ride compared to the others that we have been taking. The people in Germany are so much nicer than anywhere else that we have been. When we arrived in Garmisch we had to try to figure out how to get to our hotel and ended up asking a taxi driver, but were told that it was a 45 minute walk to the lifts so we decided to catch a cab. After watching the drive we came to the conclusion that it was worth it to take a cab especially with our heavy bags. The only way up and down from our Hotel is by a ski lift which we were kind of worried about since we have our heavy bags but it turns our that it didnt matter. We did have to travel pretty far up the mountain to our hotel. It is such a nice view and really home inside. Our room is really nice and cozy as well and we have a balcony for the first time in Europe that looks out onto the mountains. We decided to just hang out at the hotel and relax today so that we could have energy for tomorrow so we went to the spa downstairs in our hotel and had use of everything because it was self service. It was really nice and relaxing especially because we had the view of the mountains while we were sitting in the jet baths. For dinner we ate at the hotel restaurant which was decently priced and the portions were big and the food was delicious. We headed up to the room afterwards to catch some shut eye!