Germany Day 3.

On a brighter note than yesterday, I went to Neuschwanstein today. It's winter, so the whole place is covered in snow. It is a very good thing my rental BMW has snow tires, because I was slipping around as I was. In the parking lot there, I met my old friend Maria with her family, who were also going to see the castle. We all had lunch together and caught up. I had Knodel, a traditional Bavarian dumpling, sauerkraut, and Goulash, or stew. We chatted, and learned a lot about each other. Her little brother has grown so big. A couple of years ago, I went to his first birthday. Also, when he found Hannah too much of a mouthful, he called me Harry. Their family found that so funny, I am now Harry at there house hold. After lunch, we took a horse drawn cart up the mountain to the castle. It looked so much like the Disney castle it wasn't even funny. The inside was like out of a fairy tale, with murals on the walls of tales from the bible. I almost didn't believe our guide when he said it was built in 1869! It looked so old! Nearby was the palace that king Ludwig II grew up in. It was much older, but was not nearly as fancy. We learned later in that trip that King Ludwig II was drowned mysteriously in the Starnberg lake, near Munich, after spending all his money building his four castles. I loved my day here, and it was great seeing my friends, but it was getting late, and we had to go home. The castle in fall the interior