Chad had a work conference in Innsbruck, Austria this week. So we decided I would tag along and then we’d use it as a jumping off point for some traveling. It worked out great to be able to have the Zürich to Innsbruck leg of the trip all taken care of by a private Google train. We arrived Monday night and started our time off by having a REALLY good Tirolean meal. The next couple days while Chad was working long days at the conference I looked around the beautiful city and got a lot of school work done. I have really liked all the Austrian cities we have gone to. There is something so elegant and aristocratic about them. It has been a really nice jump start back into working good long days on school stuff. I really lost my drive after being sick and us being so busy for the last while. I think all the cool stuff that I saw at the conference is still confidential. I liked learning about the Google phones. But now that I think about it, only a real nerd would be interested in the conference anyway.

Today we officially started our vacation. We rented a car and drove through Garmish and Füssen to Hohenschwangau, home of the Neuschwanstein castle. The town was fairly uninteresting, and honestly the exterior of Neuschwanstein was far less appealing to me than it’s golden neighbor, Hohenschwangau, but both interiors were amazing. We weren’t allowed to take pictures, but the entire interior of Neuschwanstein was very unique and colorful and modeled to be like a set to a play. These poor royal heirs grew up surrounded by murals of monsters and wars and evil plots. At least the murders looked pretty. On the way down we had some Quark Böllchens, (a donut-like thing, but way better) and relaxed on a horse-drawn carriage ride.