Western Europe: Austria (part 2)

Hey kids!

Still in Austria. We hiked in the Bavarian Alps in the rain this morning and crossed the Austria-Germany border in the mountains. The scenery was beautiful and the rivers were this emerald colored because it comes from glacial runoff. The forests here as so majestic. We saw several salamanders as we walked the hiking path.

As I mentioned in my previous blog, we were supposed to do the luge sled thing today, but alas it is raining. owever, we still visited the castle I mentioned in the last post. Oh, as it turns out, I was wrong about it belonging to a Kaiser. The castle was built by "Mad" King Ludwig and its called the Nueschwanstien.

This afternoon and this evening should be fairly relaxing, so I'll be catching up on laundry, shopping, and meeting some friends from the tour at the bar later. The next 6 days will be super busy in Italy, so I don't know if I'll have time to answer many emails or update this blog much.

So until next time...

Good times!