March 7th - Interlaken

We woke up to eat breakfast downstairs. They had bread, hard croissants, cereal, the best local yogurt ever, Nutella, sandwich meat and cheese. The yogurt was seriously the best ever!! 

We walked to the train station and started our trek to the top of Europe Jungfraujoch. The first was a train to interlaken ost. Then we had to change to get the next one to grinderwald. Next we had to change trains again to get towards the top of the mountain. Changed trains AGAIN, but before we did, we got a beer and some hashbrowns. This was our final train up to the top. 

The train ride up was amazing. The views of the town and the mountains were something I will never forget. Just gorgeous!!! I can't believe how much the roofs can hold. The snow on them were at least a few feet high!! 

When we arrived, there was an hour tour to walk. The sphinx, LOOK UP SECOND ONE, and then Jungfraujoch. The first was a little look out where you could go outside. It was snowing! Then you went to another and it had one of the coolest snow globes ever. It was huge and made out of wood. The Swiss are known for their wood making skills also. It also showed a memorial of the people who passed away while making all the train tunnels in the beginning of the 1900's. Lastly, we went through the ice palace. It was super awesome. Everything was ice including the floor! There were ice sculptures and a tunnel. I was glad when we got out of though cus it was getting quiet cold! 

Finally we went outside another time which was where we had a snow fight. It was still snowing so we played around throwing it. I didn't know that with it so fresh you couldn't make snowballs! 

We went down the mountain and ate at a restaurant right at the station in grindlewald. The soup was delicious. It was a Swiss kind. Kind of like a potato and split pea. We also tried a cheese pasta with bacon and a few potatoes in it. It was just as good as the kasespatzle from germany! I had the hash browns with bacon. It also has a fried egg on top. Also had some ice cream, of course :)

Got the train back to interlaken west and packed up our stuff! 

March 6th - Munich to Interlaken

We woke up before 5 am to get ready to leave. It was sad leaving Germany.  We didn't have enough time there. We missed the hop on hop off tour which I think would have sufficed me. I wish I would have seen more the city and learned more info about it all. 

We got to the train station and go some food and beer. No, we didn't pop it at 6 am even though we were thinking about since you can drink in public. I bet you if the states were so taboo about drinking, we wouldn't have a binge drinking problem! We were taking the pipe beer back home to keep the bottles :) 

We got on the train (not without mom freaking out of course) and settled into our seats. Oh wait, we found out they're the wrong seats. Awesome. We were actually supposed to be in first class. We had to move all of our luggage through 3 carts. How embarrassing lol. Once we found our seats, we relaxed. Derek and I watched 3 ninjas. God I love that movie!!! The country side was gorgeous though so I kept going back and forth between looking at the iPad and outside. 

Our next train was 50 min late. It was freezing!! Our train finally came and we arrived in interlaken. The train ride there was amazing. The views were gorgeous!! The pictures really don't do justice for it. The air was so clean and the water tastes great! 

The hotel was good but I miss the hotel in Germany. This one is not even and the floor was so noisy in the room. The pillow sucked too, ha. 

We walked around town a bit and shopped. Got my second shot glass of the trip! We also had a piece of chocolate each. We were disappointed actually in it :( Mom and mckenna had attitude sickness. Mom walked around in a circle. It was like she was drunk haha. Then we went to the recommended restaurant by our hotel for Swiss fondue. And boy did that shit smell horrible and taste horrible :( so much for that!!! Derek and my mom got the hash browns with meat in it. It's a staple here and basically a breakfast bowl. Super good! 

After we went back to the hotel and crashed! 

March 5th - Munich

We had breakfast downstairs again. Yum pretzels! We left to get to marienplatz where the glockenspiel is. That's where the tour starts for Dachau. We took a train ride there then we had to take a bus to memorial. Our tour guide was funny but so knowledgable! We were able to stop at the cafe first where we got a couple of different ice creams that were good. My cinnamon roll wasn't that good though! 

The concentration camp was eerie to be in. The thoughts of what happened there where sick. To know that people would just vanish and never been found again or heard of sucks. Everything that the nazis did was psychologically damaging such as giving them a shelf on their bed but they didn't have any belongings to put on it. They were stripped of their clothes, giving uniforms with a number on it and a colored triangle. The color depended on the "crime" they were sent there for. This is how many people found out "why" they were arrested. They did a lot of manual labor like digging holes and filling them back again, building walls and knocking them down in the same day. It was to weaken them and mess with their minds. They were fed bread and water soup with some veggies in it. Not always was the bread good, sometimes they would bake it with shit in it like sawdust. The officers made everything a joke and sadistic to have pleasure from it. You only survived by not standing out. 

We walked through the whole camp and ended up at the ovens and the gas chamber. It was so weird to walk into the chamber. They were told that they were going to take a shower, so they would take their clothes off before going in. What is disrespectful is that the general public has taken every "shower head" off the ceiling which was low except for one. How sad is that?!?! 

The thing I kept thinking the entire time was how brilliant the nazi party was. What could have they actually done for the world if they used their minds for good instead of evil?!? Everything was an action and a reaction but it almost like they planned it all out beforehand. 

It's so sad how the living conditions worsened and how we will never know how many people actually lost their lives at each of the concentration camps.  The interesting part is that all of the school kids come to learn about the shame they have as a country. Those words were interesting to hear since 

After coming back into Munich, we went shopping a little bit to get the rest of the souvenirs we needed. Had dinner and went home early to pack and sleep. We leave early to go to Switzerland in the morning!!  

March 4th - Munich

Woke up a little late to cure jetlag. Had breakfast downstairs at the hotel. The bed was so comfy and we love the staff! They're so helpful and nice. Sebastian was in traditional dress which was fun to see! The breakfast was mainly breads. Pretzels are a staple here for breakfast and anytime during the day really. I love them with Nutella :) the eggs, they eat raw...so weird!!! Mom wanted to go see the glockenspiel. The guide last night told us that it's boring and overrated. Mom said we needed to get there at 10:30 cus it got busy. What a freaking joke. Barely anyone was there and it was so lame haha. The grand finale was a owl that made some noises. We had some time still so we went shopping at pimkie. I got a high low skirt. 

We got picked up nearby by a taxi to drive us to Wacker headquarters which is one of our larger vendors. We got a free lunch and a private tour of the warehouse. I chose a meal that is german with no english translation. It was really good. Had vegetables and the "pasta" portion was a bread dough like thing.  It was fairly interesting seeing everything go together and learning about the apprenticeships. He also told us a little bit about Germany as well. 

We got the taxi back by city center and went to dinner at a really nice restaurant. I got my cordon blue veal  with roasted potatoes and it was amazing. The apple strudel here was the better than last night!

We went shopping at H&M afterwards while the boys got a beer at paulaners. Got a cute dress and shirt! Went home and crashed!! It was so nice to sleep more. Jetlag sucks!

Pics will be later as I'm not wasting time with that again, haha

March 3rd -Munich

We got into Munich and took the train towards the hotel. We lost the Munich folder. Thank god mom saved the address in her phone so we went to the hotel. Took a little nap when we got there. Went to kurgarden beer garden for dinner. Had the kasespatzle (cheesy pasta with fried onions) and apple strudel. The vanilla ice cream here is amazing! After the train from Laim to the center train station, we got some caffeine at Starbucks. Outside, we waited for the beer challenge to start. Learned that you can drink beer anywhere except for the trains!!  You can just close it by putting your thumb over the bottle. A couple years ago they had a huge nye party on the trains and damaged 8 trains!!! We took the train to paulaner beerhole. I had their wheat beer which is called the breakfast beer. They have beer all throughout the day here because its considered a food. After we went to the hofbrauhaus. The beer wasn't that good but the atmosphere was crazy. Bulgarian traditional dress, liters of beer, loud noise with a band. It was where the nazis declared their party upstairs. The swasika was painted on the top of the ceiling but after the nazi party stopped, they painted them to look disguised but still can make it out since it was part of history. Lastly we went to Augustine which has the best beer! Very tasty. They have what's called the popes beer. It's the ex-popes favorite beer and he only drinks that beer. I got an ice cream sundae here which was heavenly! We also learned that beer was originally created for the monks and their fasting. It was liquid so they could drink it but still had nutrients in it!! After, we went to another little bar for a bit for a free beer and jäger shot. Then we got a taxi home. Not too bad to spend the first night in Munich drunk with your husband and dad!  

I'll add the photos later since I'm having issues right now!

Holy SHIT

We leave TODAY! Omg, I'm so stoked, I can't believe that it's finally here after almost  a year and a half of planning and saving.  This is ridic! I miss Chewy already :(  So we're on our way to Philly first and then we will leave from there to get to Munich! I've got my sleeping pills, hehe!  Next time we talk, we'll be in a different part of the world, so crazy!

Food Poisoning

Yup, Derek and I got it.  It was straight up damn awful!  I haven't called out of work in forever. Actually, I made it to work for 3 hours and then peaced out.  No more chipotle for a long time! They were SUPER nice on the phone when I reported it.  They even called me the next day to see how I was! So needless to say, we were out of commission on wed and then last night was spend trying to get stuff together for the trip.  Nothing much ended up getting done though.  Derek has today off so he'll pack and clean the house since we did laundry last night.  I just have to verify what I'm bringing and pack some more up.  Holy hell, I can't believe that we leave TOMORROW!