Monday, July 16, 2007

Our week in Germany

Hey everybody this is our adventure in Germany , We hope that you all enjoy the pictures.Germany is seriously the most beautiful country we have been to yet... The Area of Garmish is so beautiful! we had the opportunity to stay for 7 days and explore the surrounding areas. We also got to stay in a resort that military members could stay in for really cheap! It was wonderful they have a really big hot tub in the resort and after our travels we would sit and relax in it almost every night. Garmish also has many beautiful mountains so rounding the town not only can you hike and see it you, can drive from town to town and see its beauty.

On day One we went to Dachau Concentration camp...It was so sad and the way the people were treated, was awful! A lot of the camp was torn down because when the United States came in they turned it around!!! GO USA!!! The picture to the side is of the camps front entrance You can look at the tower that the SS would watch over them while in camp and shoot anyone that got to close to the fence.


The picture with Josh in front of the door is the entrance to the camp. The people would come in by train and walk through these doors... some didn't make it back out. They said that at times there were over 100,000 people within this camp. The picture of the men standing there wasn't a real picture it was propaganda taken by Hitler to show the people that they were well treated and they were well taken care of it was like a boot camp, or retraining. But Dachau was actually the worst of all concentration camp.

The one picture is a smaller version of the ovens used at the camp... it was in use for a little time but because so many people were being burned they had to build a bigger one that was four times bigger. Josh and I took a picture of us outside of the bunkers they only have two standing the rest were torn down.




The picture of the hall way is of the prison of the camp if you didn't think the concentration camp was bad enough the prison was horrible... They would hang the people by there back arms for 36 hours and then they would have to stand 72 hours in a cell that was just big enough to stand you couldn't even sit or lay down... the man that attempted to kill Hitler with a bomb was one of the many people that stayed here! Many leaders and solders stayed in these cells!! The people that stayed in the camps didn't want to ever have prison time because it was a million times worse!!! It was a long day and very sad and I can't believe that people were treated that bad!!! Also how people in the town didn't know what was going on!! There is no way because the town was that close to the camp... the Americans made the town people come in and look at what Hitler and the SS did to the people in the camp and how no did anything to stop it, they just sat there and did nothing!! It was a good learning lesson! But it was very sad!!!
On a lighter note we went out to eat at this Germany restaurant in Garmish it was good food and Great Sauerkraut!! The Sauerkraut in Germany is wonderful!!! We LOVED IT!!! They had these little German boys come in and dance for you we didn't stay long enough to see the Girls dance but it was great!!!

Can you tell if this is a man or a women??? She was really interesting and we had to take a picture of her!! You should really zoom on this picture, is that Face Plastic?!?!?!?
Our next adventure was Neuschwanstein it was beautiful. Every year 1.3 million people visit a year... It is really beautiful... the Seven weeks after the death of King Ludwig II in 1886, Neuschwanstein was opened to the public. The shy king had built the castle in order to withdraw from public life. He was crazy but made some beautiful Castles even Walt Disney copied it!! Before we made our hike we saw these German guys dressed up and needed a picture!!


The one part of the hike you can hike over this bridge... It was so scary!!! But it has a great view!! I was terrified though because the bridge is stable but the wood part that you walk on shakes it is so scary!!! I was screaming the whole way but I did it!!!

This picture is of the bridge that you can hardly see I am at the bottom just to show you how high it is... Josh and Matt wanted to do a little more exploring I would have went with them but all I had on was sandals but was really pretty and they had to get into the water people were taking pictures of them and asking me if they were teenagers... Not they are grown men one is a father!!! The only thing that made me really mad was the castle is not child friendly at all!! Also this handicapped girl that already paid for a ticket they wouldn't let her go in because they only had an elevator that ran only two times a week... Don't worry I started yelling at them but they wouldn't let her go in and then on our tour there was a little child that was crying and they told them to leave!!!! I couldn't believe it!!! Other than that it was really nice!!

On our way back to the hotel we stopped at another German restaurant in the back yard of it they had these Goats that were playing on the jungle gym in the back they even went down the slide it was funny so I had to take a picture!!!


Since we were only hour and half from Austria we went to the Swarovski crystal place!!!
Swarovski Crystal is in Austria and only about an hour from the resort, so we had to stop by.....
They have this waterfall thing when you first come in that is really neat looking!! Picture opportunity!!! We didn't pay for the whole museum tour thing we just went to the outlet!! It was really neat inside of the outlet and they had so much jewelry!!! Josh wanted me to get something really big because we were going to spend the same amount on two items but I looked at it as more the merrier !! I purchased a necklace and a bracket!! But some of these people were going crazy buying a lot!!

Since I got what I wanted all Josh wanted was a picture of the outside with this statue at the outlet place!!! Him and Matt had to have this picture!!! The other picture is of me inside of the outlet!!

The other reason we went to Swarovski was for Candy's birthday, Happy 21..... Later that evening we went out to eat at an Indian restaurant!! The food was amazing and the water was great!!! The bottle of water was so big!!!! We had a great time!!!


Since we were all tired from all the traveling and such we had a back massage the next day!! It was nice but my back still hurts!! After our massage Matt and Josh decided to have a guys day and go hiking!! The area was beautiful and they had a great time and they came back with a lot of blisters though!!!
They hiked the whole area and it had beautiful waterfalls through out the whole place but us girls thought they got lost and we were about to send out a rescue search but they came back in time!!!Thank goodness!!!






After they were done we went for a walk into the town to eat!! It was so pretty!! We got some beautiful pictures of the town!! We ate at a sushi restaurant it was all you could eat and they came out on a little convair belt it was so cool!!

The next night we were going to eat at this Restaurant named MukkeF**k that you can see in the picture but it was really trash looking so we didn't eat there!!


Finally on our last day we went to the top of the Mountain!! It was so neat!! It was a little Cloudy but it was beautiful I could hardly look over the edge It made me really sick but I did it!! You ride up on these little ski lift things with windows all the way around you!! It was beautiful!! Germany was wonderful we would like to go back but is a must see so if anyone comes and visits we are going back and you can stay with us in the really cheap resort!!!


****Click on the picture to see the whole thing they are really beautiful!!!******