The redhead was in Füssen.

As you all know, I was gone for the last week and half or so on an epic adventure through Germany. I went with my very beautiful cousin Löki Gale who has been spending her time in the Peace Corp in Azerbaijan (SCORE, I spelled that totally right without using Google!). If you want to know a little more about her or about her journey there you can click her name and it will take you to her blog!
   Now that I'm done shamelessly promoting, back to the travel shizz.
     We saw Füssen, Munich, and Berlin, which admittedly is only a very small snippit of Germany, but it was definitely a pretty one and  it made it even more wonderful to see a member of my family a little after christmas. In Füssen we saw the main tourist attraction... or tried to, because you see there are two big castles there, both owned by this prince who became king but didn't like his first castle so he ordered for a new one to be built for him. it took about 17 years (if I remember correctly) to build and when it was done he only resided in it a few months before his death. Oh...and this second castle is one of the main inspirations for the Disney Castle!
      Unfortunately, the original disney castle was closed for the three days we were there (over new years). We got to see the first however, Hohen Schwangau (The High Swans). It was quite fancy, with gold everything and murals and this REALLY, REALLY old loaf of bread which was sent as a good luck charm to the kind a very, very long time ago and has not yet, and probably will not mold... Which I find a little to creepily like McDonald's french fries to be ok with it.

     The whole time we were in Füssen we walked all over the place, tiring our legs and feet and selves out. Needless to say, I napped quite a bit, which was quite ok with me. On New Year's Eve the town had a party in the main square with a live band, Glühwein, and "street meat" (in this case, a Rotwurst in a Brotchen). The night was cold, but exciting and fun. the band played some fantastic songs including TNT by ACDC, Proud Mary by Tina Turner, AND TIME WARP FROM THE ROCKY HORROR PICTURE SHOW. It was epic. We danced a lot and as it approached midnight children and teenagers and drunken adults flooded the square and the streets surrounding it letting fireworks loose into the air.
    That really freaked me out. Fireworks were being thrown and lit every which way and all I could think was AHH EXPLODING FIREY THINGS!!! Löki was a little bit calmer, which was great because that is probably the only way I kept my head on. Once we had toasted the new year and walked back to our hostel the fireworks echoed on throughout the night lighting up the sky through our thin cutains like it was daylight.
    The next day we boarded our train in the leftover debris of past fireworks and candywrappers and left for MUNICH! See the next one for the continuation of our journey.....