Castle 2?: Into Fuessen

A "mistical" fog settled in over night and early the following morning I took this pic of the castle we would see on Wednesday.

On Tuesday we didn't have anything scheduled as far as castle or museum tours so we decided we wanted to see more of the actual town/city of Fuessen. We had to catch a bus that would take us to the train station where we came in to town. On the way to the hotel on our arrival night we saw a tourist map that had some potential for visiting if we had the time. However, our main goal that day was to get some lunch and groceries for lunch for the remainder of our stay because lunch wasn't included in the package deal we got and it was pretty spendy. A lady at the front desk told us that there was a McDonald's in town and it had a play palace. We still aren't fond of McDonald's but the play palace sounded fun for the girls. So we chose to go there for lunch and then see what we could of the town and try to get back to our hotel in time for our next 3 course dinner and have a family movie night.

We went to the bus stop in our little village and hang out for over 30 minutes. So I took some more pics of the mysterious castle in the fog, but I will just show one of them.

During our 10 minute bus ride we saw the following:

A castle/monastery in the town

 We eventually saw a sign that said there was a historical square in town. So of course we are going to want to check that out!
 So we get off the bus and follow signs that made us think McDonald's was nearby and walk for over half a mile in the snow, while it's snowing with 4 four hungry people and two toddlers that don't want to walk anymore and one of which is cold and cranky because she was in need of a nap again (Kenya) We finally get there and the bloody play palace is an out door one and was most likely closed for the season! What a let down! To top it of we ate there and would have gotten some delicious new flavors of Mcflurries and got the shaft because their machine was broken. They couldn't serve any ice cream at all. We had to settle for hot chocolate, which was pretty good but not what we wanted since it was probably close to 90 degrees Fahrenheit inside! Also, Kenya loves ketchup so I asked for another packet for her and it cost 30 euro cents which is 40 cents U.S. With all of this I am once again reminded that there's opposition in all things! Our trip was amazing so far so we needed a little something thrown in to make us appreciate it even more...or something like that....uh...yeah.

After lunch we walked our expensive meal off and cruised through the historic portion of the town. We didn't find the castle/monastery, but we found a ton of unopened shops and cool looking buildings. We think that, like in China, there must have been some kind of 2 hour break in the day for lunch and stuff because almost everything was closed.

Sorry couldn't flip the pics

Jasmin and Daddy conquered the hill!

Lois saw this old man and had to take a pic because he seemed like the vintage German guy you expect to see everywhere in Germany.

 

Since were in town we thought it convenient to got get our train tickets for Italy so we ended our brief walk about and hit up the train station. However, we were again met with disappointment because that too was closed without any explanation. We were going to have to wait a long time for our bust to come but was blessed to share a taxi with an Australian woman headed to the same place. It was kinda cute to see her reaction to seeing the castles from the taxi like the night we arrived because it was almost just like a child's reaction. She was giddy and kept saying it was like a fairy land and a fairy tale! She was a flight attendant and she was the only one from her crew who chose to go see the castles. (We eventually saw her in the tour next day and she was still like a kid in a candy store!)

We went back to the hotel and had another 3 course dinner and went to the room, watched a family movie and crashed in preparation for the other castle tour and a trip to the Museum of Bavarian Kings.