~DAY THREE~
We woke up and packed our bags and had a very good breakfast - again with eggs and coffee, cheese, ham, bread.. except today we had pretzels as well. Also- you know that famous picture that everyone loved of me with the pretzel and the beer. Well I forgot to add that in Nurenberg we got a huge pretzel and my family enjoyed it. :) It was hard and crunchy just like mine!! Well back to day three. We packed the car, said good bye to the Hahns and headed down to Dachau. It was quite an expierence. Dachau was opened in 1933, and it started out as a political prision. It also was a model Camp for the rest of the camps. Dachau was inhabited by only Germans in 1933-1938 and then other denominations were added to the mix. Dachau had bedding changes, it went from single beds with dividers and another room for mingling, to a room just for sleeping with single beds stacked three high, to the last one where there the inhabitants had to sleep side by side head to toe and toe to head packed in tightly on beds stacked three high. The guide informed us that the goal of Dachau's Soliders was to strip the inhabitants of three things. 1) Their identity 2) all of their posessions & 3) their dignity. this was the goal however, the inhabitants were not the ones who lost their dignity it was the soliders working at Dachau who were lost it. The environment of Dachau was Grey and covered with sheets of sadness. It was not the happiest day on our trip, but it was one that will leave a mark forever in History. After Dachau we continued on our way to the Gasthaus of Frau Ballwein in Salzburg, Austria! When we arrived we walked into another little quiant house, quite nice :) and warm!! We unloaded and made our way to the Salzburg Christmas Market. We had some hot Chocolate with Rum, Sara did not like it to much :( go figure. haha. We bought some souveniours and gifts :) We also were adventurous with our desserts, some marshmallow thing. It wasn't that bad, we also had some potatoes wedges with salsa to keep us over while we were finding a place for dinner. So we searched for an information booth I approached and asked for help on where a good resturant is. The person helping us, was a boy probably around my age, and he first sent us to this place that was super smokey, and he also reccommened another place but it was pricey, sooooo we found our own and had pizza and salad from a small resturant. My mom claims that this boy was hitting on me and I did not know what to do. All he asked was if I wanted to go out, like out on the town. He told me where he was gonna be and where he likes to go. So I guess maybe, lol but still that never happens. OOO wait. I forgot to tell you about our lovely experience driving to Salzburg, well the GPS was a bit confusing and it led us to driving down one way streets twice. It was interesting but we eventually made it to the market and back safe to our quaint little house at the Ballwein Residence and went to bed.
~DAY FOUR~
We awoke at the Ballwein residence and went down to Breakfast, Again it was a typical german breakfast, with eggs, cheese, ham, rolls, coffee for my mom. Very tasty once again! This day- we had a lot planned for, oo we also made sandwiches for us to eat on the road. So we headed out on our action packed day. The first stop was the Saltmine. We put on our saltmine outfits all decked in Blue with a white strap and extra fabric on the butt for slidding. So we headed intothe mine on a tiny train straddle sitting one behind the other. We walked around and then got to slide down a steep slide twice in the mine, Order goes, Mom-Me-Sara-Dad. It was rather fun :) Then after this we changed out of our mining gear and headed towards Koenigsee, where my mom had a little fun on the ice.. not so much :( We checked out the boat ride and thought about going on the boat but decided not to, because it was so cold. So we settled for a Cable car ride up to the top of a mountin 1800 meters high. On the way up I road with my mom and we discussed things about life and about how my dad is probably taking a billion pictures of the brilliant landscape. On the way down I road with my dad! And he was taking a billino pictures, but I was doing the same thing.
After our adventure to the top of a mountain we got back in the car and headed back to our place. We thought we would be smart and walk to a place to eat but, we walked there it was closed so we walked back and got in the car and drove around trying to find somewhere to eat, but we did not know if we could park where we were so we went to find yet another place to eat. My german failed me there, i could not read the sign... if we could park or not.. :( causing us to find a new place to eat.. Pizza Man.. sounds nice but.. the man was a royal pain in the ARRSS. So we got out of there with our food as fast as we could. Before we left we asked for a fork and he was like 40 cents please. so we just left and stopped at a gas station and asked a very FRIENDLY man and he gave us 2 forks for free, also we bought some chips and some Peach tea :) After this we made it back to our hotel to eat our pizza and my moms spaghetti carbonara. It was very good :) despite the bad service. But then we just relaxed watched some European Handball and called it a night! end of day 4! :]
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