Wow, it's been a while

So since Prague I've been to Amberg and the Neuschwanstein castle. Amberg was pretty cool. Right off the train station there is this whole road that has a bunch of shops and restaurants and stuff. In the middle there is a big square too and while we where there there was this guy with a lama which was kinda funny. I got a super cute pair of boots which I love to death :) There were a couple stores there that were super cheap too.
After Amberg I went over to the Vilseck side of the Grafenwoehr base and hung out with the Camp A's on that side. We went to this castle party for Fashing a couple miles from their apartment with some of their coworkers. Stopped at a bar before we got to the castle, which really wasn't a castle. It was more of like a little tower with half a wall going around. Lots of drinking and watching weird old people dance...
The castle trip to Neuschwanstein was quite the adventure. We had to be up at 4 in the morning to catch a taxi to the train station where our train left at like 530 in the morning. The train ride itself was pretty uneventful. We got to Fussen which is where the castle is and caught a bus up to where the castle is. We got out tickets but we had a little while to wait before our tour for the first castle started so we stopped at some of the little souvenir shops. I got a ton of stuff that I then had to carry with me on all the tours but it wasn't that bad. We got a tour of the first castle (I forget what it was called) which was the one that the guy (I don't remember what his name was) built for his parents. That was pretty cool. Then we took a horse drawn carriage ride up to the Neuschwanstein castle. I felt like I was participating in animal cruelty... The castle was amazing though. It was gorgeous!!!!!!! Only like 1/3 of the actual castle was finished though so there wasn't a whole lot more to see. We had dinner at this like mini Hofbrahaus though which was really cute. I didn't really like what I got though which was like this weird pork patti. We walked back down the hill after that and got some mini wine bottles at the grocery store there and waited for our train to come at the station. This is where it got messed up. We got on our train and it was having these weird spasms and making funny noises. It would stop for like 5 min periods of time and then keep going. So we thought we were going to get to the station that we needed to switch at super late, but we got up to check where we were and realized that we were there right on time. We got all our stuff together lickity split and went to the doors but they wouldn't let us out and refused to open. So.... we missed out station and our train that would take us back. We had to go all the way to Munich and switch stations there in order to get to Nuremberg, but my the time we got to Nuremberg it was like 1230 at night and no more trains left that station to our base till 530 the next morning. Therefore we had to spend the rest of the night attempting to get some rest of a bunch on uncomfortable tables and chairs in the station. There were tons of people there too though. There were a bunch of police wandering around which was nice to know, but also a ton of drunks and some homeless people. At one end of the station there was this club/bar that was going on all night and drunk people kept coming in and out of it. A group of drunk guys were singing some sort of random German songs at the top of their lungs and it was super annoying. We got the first train that left though that morning and were back at our apartment at somewhere around 630. Slept most of the next day and then went back to work the day after that. That's enough adventure for me to last the rest of the trip :)

Prague

The trip to Prague was pretty uneventful. My friend Leo and I took a train to get to Nuremberg, and then from there a bus into Prague. The bus pretty cool. It was a two story one and it wasn't super cramped either. We got to our hostel called Sir Toby's (I highly recommend it) checked in, and then went into the Old Town and took this free walking tour of the main part of the city. We saw the astronomical clock and the church that was right there on the square, the Jewish graveyard, and some other things but we mostly just walked by them and weren't able to actually go inside or see them. We decided to have dinner back at the hostel because there was a full kitchen there that we could use. It was nice not to have to spend a bunch of money on going out, we just went to the grocery store about a block away :) At the hostel we met this Australian girl names Jess who came along with us on a lot of the things we did. The next day we were able to walk up tot he castle and see the cathedral which was amazing! We also walked across the Charles Bridge and then had this dumpling dish which apparently is a must when in the Czech Republic but I just thought it was ok. We also saw the monastery there and had to pay to go inside the library. The day that we left we had a little time, so we hiked up to the huge metronome that is up on a hill and got a nice view of the whole city.