Wednesday July 25, 2007

At 6:20am this morning we arrived in Munich, where we had about an hour train ride to Frielessing and then another 45 minute train ride to Berchtesgaden where we are staying for the night. When we arrived in Berchtesgaden we were told that we would have to walk 500m from the train station and then up a bunch of stairs and another 500m to our hotel. Neither Tasha or myself were excited about that idea so we decided to treat ourselves and just take a taxi which was really nice and not to expensive. The Hotel Watzman was really cozy in the inside right down to the people that work there. It felt as though we had just arrived at grandmas house. The room was nice, but didn’t have a view. We arrived to late in the city to visit the Eagles Nest, but were able to take a bus to the Lake Konigsee where we took a boat tour around the lake. It was really a beautiful sight and the water was really clear for a lake. You could see the bottom, which is not typical of lakes, to bad it’s against the rules to swim in the water. We were so sleepy on the boat that it was hard to stay awake but we managed to do it until we reached the last stop where we could get out and walk around to another little lake. Along the path to the other lake were boysenberry plants growing so I picked some of the berries that were ripe and ate them. They were so delicious. We stayed around for about an hour before heading back to catch the boat to go back to the dock. We had to wait 1 hour for the next bus to take us back to central Berchtesgaden. We ate dinner at our hotel, which was super delicious and worth every penny. After dinner we went back to our room to relax, pack, and watch the news on CNN in English. We went to sleep pretty early so we could get some rest.