Not All Who Wander: Austria and Germany and Childhood movies

So our first stop was Vienna. We were there for a couple days got some amazing bratwursts and hot dogs. So yummy! Got to have real legit Vienna beef! I didn't realize how many famous musicians came from Vienna including Mozart. Maddie told Caroline and me about these candies we had to find that we're these chocolate balls that had like nuts and marzipan inside of them. We finally found these "Mozart balls" and they were amazing! So I guess you could say that in Vienna we enjoyed some great wieners and some really good balls. ;) We saw some amazing museums that all have become a blur to me. Love the art but I don't remember which art I saw in which museum only because there was too much and we are seeing 2 or 3 museums every day. Also one of the best parts of Vienna was the hotel! I got to room with Caroline and our hotel felt like we were from Xenon! Everything was motion censored and we could control all the lights by the remote on our bed and the shower was in the middle of the room and clear all the way around but blurred in the right spots haha. Kinda awkward to shower but the best part of the shower was the shower head changed colors! So we had fun showering with the light off. It was awesome haha. Tried watching tv but everything was in German and English subtitles wouldn't work. Wieners, balls, and light up showers: I promise this is a BYU study abroad haha

Then we made our day trip to Salzburg which of course where sound of music is filmed!!! We got off the bus and walked right to where they sing the Do-Re-Me songs! We walked around what truly felt like the sound of music. We all couldn't help but sing the songs, I'm sure we all did not like the loud and annoying Americans that he Europeans know us as. Sorry not sorry.. Haha but we also got to walk up and hike our way to the top of the mighty Hohensalzburg Fortress! Too much money to go inside but it was pretty and fun to walk up! Got an amazing pretzel and walked into many lederhosen shops that they took very seriously. Felt like Rapunzel walking around the fun Shops and dancers right next to the castle. All i needed was a Flynn Rider to get a cupcake with..next time. We then got on the bus to go to our group dinner somewhere in Austria on the way to Munich. It was like a thanksgiving feast. They just brought out plates and plates of food kind of buffet style. So much meat and vegetables I was happy to eat them all. Sometimes on the road you feel so awful because your just eating carbs and sugar all the time haha. Little did I know that the best meat I ate was actually veal! Sometimes ignorance is bliss. If I had known I would not have ate it. But then they brought out dessert and I felt much better. There was like 6 different cake like desserts and we all just grabbed our fork and ate off all of them. Felt like I was a seven dwarf in Snow White. "What's wash???" Because maybe the last time we had washed was "recently" haha. Thanks for anyone who understands these quotes from the movie. Everywhere I turned in Austria and Germany I was either seeing Snow White, Sound of Music, or Tangled haha

So after dinner we get back in the bus on our way to Munich. All I can really say about Munich is that the metro is the hardest thing in the world to figure out. First of all I'm not very good at direction anyways but if things are properly labeled and color coded then I can figure it out. This was not the case. After a very successful day of wandering around the main shopping area of Munich me, Maddie and Caroline start to make our way back which shoul take about 20 minutes ended up taking us about 3 hours. But the best way to figure out your way around town is to get lost. What I love and hate about study abroad is that our professors will give us a map and tell us where our hotel is and then say, "good luck! See you at this place tomorrow!" And then let us loose. In Venice when they did it it was kinda fun because it felt like amazing race. Like here's where our hotel is; see who can get there the fastest haha. But by the time I was in Munich I was done with getting lost. While we were lost though this random little man helped us and gave us directions. I kid you not, he looked like a gnome. he was little, had a beard, came out of nowhere, and had grass in his hair! I think that there are magical dwarves or gnomes in germany that help people because it was magical. He shows up and knows english and then like magic he dissapeared instantly. Very cute man. Still though after getting directions from the gnome we were still confused and lost. Luckily all of the metros have been much easier but basically the way we home was random king running into our professor and figuring out that we had the wrong written down for our hotel. Haha so once we got that cleared up we made it home in no time. Munich was beautiful though! Went to the worlds biggest beer hall and got water and yummy food haha we looked pretty silly but there were a lot of funny drunk people and especially giant groups of bachelor parties. Very fun to watch them, it was like dinner and a show. That's it for Germany though. Very green, very pretty, didn't like the metro