Le Jour Vingt-Quatre (Day 24)

Yucky, yucky travel day today. It rained ALL day today. I enjoyed my big breakfast and last giant bowl of chocolate granola and coconut, and out the door like packer pros we went! We’re headed for Fussen, but we made a pit stop at Kufstein, Germany, to visit the Riedel Glass factory. It’s known for their fine wine glasses! The purpose of Fussen is a mere overnight stay and spending the day at Neuschwanstein Castle! This is the beautiful, yet unfinished, castle that Walt Disney used as the inspiration for the Disney castle; I cannot wait to see it and pretend like I’m a princess for the day…

Riedel was interesting to learn about, and we got to see the behind the scenes work as we watched tons of men hard at work in the 100 degree factory making each part to glass pieces to perfection. They then walked us through this automated sensory, illusion tour thing. It was emphasizing what makes Riedel special for knowing and making their glasses to cater to each of the five senses to make the entire wine-drinking experience “magical” or “the best.”

Besides that, there’s nothing to say about the day’s activities unless you all want to hear details about Kelly and I getting bus fever and claustrophobic in the VERY BACK, or perhaps the many dreams I had as I slept pretty much the entire way. I’ll spare you. But I’ll give you a random fact for the day: many of you know I’m a hairspray junkie. Jodee, my roommate this past year, even pointed out that we live and breathe in a fog of hairspray in our room. I’m not addicted…I just…like my hairspray. And my pick. You don’t want to be around if I’ve lost the pick… now I’m rambling. ANYWAYS, I ran out of my trusty, Treseme hairspray, so I had to buy sketchy German hairspray in a bright purple bottle. It smells weird, makes a strange noise when I spray it, and I can’t read a word on the thing, but it does the job for the time being! Haha, thought some of you would enjoy that little fact.

This is our second favorite room!! It’s so cute with it’s turquoise, reds, and yellow, and our bathroom has steps leading up to it, and it’s white and futuristic-looking. We approve!

Kelly, Brady, Drew, Garrett, and I went to this random German restaurant mostly because we were hungry and it was raining and we just wanted to find somewhere to eat. I’m going to be honest, I was purposefully trying to avoid ordering most of the strange sounding and looking German meats for the past few days while we were at restaurants. Tonight, I sort of had no other choice because that’s literally all that was offered on the menu/I wanted to at least try Weinershinzel once before leaving…. So, checking it off my bucket list, I ordered it, and actually liked it! It just tasted like chicken fried steak.

 

Afterward, we basically bought out the entire grocery store and stocked up on German/Swiss chocolate because it was really cheap here! Yummy espresso, rum, and coconut flavored too. Then, we came back to the hotel, joining company with Allison, Syd. And two other sweet girls and played Fish Bowl. It was hilarious, and we had a good time laughing hysterically at each other. After we played a round, Kelly and I called it a night and came back to our cozy room; however, I made the mistake of leaving my phone with all of them. Of course, Drew, Brady, and Garrett got a hold of it, and I had nice little surprises in my photo album, including pictures of random hotel things, their hairy feet, mirror pics of themselves, videos of them tackling each other, and other boy-ish things. At least they unashamedly love us enough to do that, right?