Catching up

Since I have last blogged we have gone on a pub crawl in Amsterdam, taken three trains to get to Munich, and spent the day out of town with a contact Shelby's dad had here.

The pub crawl in Amsterdam was absolutely insane. The tour takes you to five different bars and one club. In each bar you are given a token for a free drink, and four bottles of pucker need to be finished by the group before the group moves on. While waiting outside we met two guys, one who was raised in Chicago but now lives in Germany, Victor, they two seemed very nice so we stuck with them for a bit so we weren't all by ourselves.

We only made it to four of the pubs--we thought we should quit while we were ahead and still safe to make it back to the hostel. We met quite a few people that we got to talk with fora good bit of time. We met two very sweet girls from London who we hung out with for a while. They were just in Amsterdam for the weekend to spend a few days relaxing and going out.

So, we survived the bar crawl and got a free t-shirt! Success.

The next morning we had to wake up early to check out of the hostel. We had a leisurely breakfast at a restaurant on the canal and made our way to Amsterdam Centraal train station. There were no direct trains left to Munich so we had to take three. The two were about an hour and the next was somewhere around five hours. We finally made it to our hostel around 9:30pm.

When we arrived we learned that we had gotten a room upgrade. We had signed up for a 12 bed shared room, but they had a cancellation and upgraded us to a private twin. It's a bit of a bummer that we don't have roommates to chat with, because in Amsterdam we met some really awesome people, but on the other hand it's nice to have some privacy.

Last night at the hostel when we were in the lobby, Gina--a woman Shelby's dad knows--came looking for us. Se invited us to a major music festival but it would go on into the wee hours of the morning and we really wanted to get some sleep. After declining the festival invitation she invited us to go visit a famous castle on an island outside of Munich with her daughter and her boyfriend, and two other couples who are staying with them from the states.

We took the tram this morning to a location near Gina's house where we got picked up by Anya and her boyfriend. They drove us to Gina's and we had breakfast there before taking off. Since it was far out of the city, we had to take the Autobahn to get there. We clocked in at 190km/hr which felt pretty crazy, but when all the other cars are going just as fast it wasn't hard to adjust to.

After the trip in the car we had to take a ferry to the island where the castle is. From where we were you could see the mountains of Austria. They were absolutely breathtaking.

We took a guided tour of the castle with the group which I will write about tomorrow because I only have a few minutes of wifi left.

Write again soon if possible

PS
Sorry mom and dad for all the scary details of bar crawls and the autobahn. But I assure you we look 
out for each other