11.7.10 (part 2)
So I didn't end up going to München yesterday, just chilled around, watched the game with my host dad. Netherlands lost, boo Spain! =( LOTS of yellow cards. It was pretty insane.
12.7.10--Obersalzberg
Today was soo fun! We took a 2 hour bus ride to Obersalzberg (not to be confused with Salzburg) [First experience on the autobahn!--this part was one of the first sections to be built and endorsed by Hitler, and he actually commissioned one of the parts just to get to his summer home]. First we went to Dokumentation Obersalzberg, which was a museum about Hitler´s summer home up in the alps and we also got to walk around an old bunker. We didn´t actuallz get to go up to the Eagle´s Nest, it was wayyy higher up the mountain than we were, and expensive, but the bunker was pretty cool. After that, we got back on the bus and drove on the Panorama Straße up the mountain, and then walked around a bit up on top. It was soooo pretty! We could see Salzburg, Austria, along with many other mountains and little towns and cows and sheep. So beautiful! We then got back on the bus and went to lunch, where I had Gebratene Laberkase mit Brotkartoffeln. Tasty. After lunch, we went to a schnaps distillery, which was pretty cool. We had a very short tour/description of how they make it, and then watched a short film about Enzian, which is the mountain flower that they ferment to make the schnaps. After the film, the tour ended in the gift shop (like Disneyworld!), where they brought out a big cart with 6 types of schnaps and many glasses full of each (enough for everyone) and told us to finish the cart. So everyone had at least 6 shots, plus you could try whatever else you wanted to taste. My favorites were the blood orange, peach, and HAZELNUT!! The hazelnut came in little wafer shotglasses coated with chocolate on the inside, so you could eat it. Yum. I also had half a shot of absinthe, cuz one of the girls didn´t want an entire one. Pretty interesting. After this tasty venture, we went down into a salt mine, which was SO FUN. We all had to wear these jumpsuits, which were so stylin. Then we took a little train down into the mine, until we reached a bigger cavern, where we exited, heard a little spiel about salt mines, and took an awesome slide down. We learned some more about salt mining, and all the little parts of the tour were very Disney-esque. Lots of led-light shows, magical-sounding chill music, etc. Very Epcot. We got to taste the wall, and I felt like I had eaten about 10 pretzels. We then rode across an underground salt lake on a boat, of course accompanied by another light show. At the end of that, we got to taste the water, which tasted like 25 more pretzels, on top of the previous 10. We then reached the "treasure room," where they had lots of interactive computery thingys so you can learn anything you ever wanted to know about salt. Next, we took a diagonal elevator thingy up a bit, learned some more, and took the train back to the entrance (they even had a fake cave-in! SO much like a Disney ride). The conductor gave us each a little canister of the salt they make there. The train ride, of course, ended up in the gift shop. We then went to dinner, where I had Currywurst mit Pommes. Such a great day =]
New photo album: Berlin, Part 1. http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2048894&id=1135320260&l=6e308f33d2
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