Innsbruck

Our train ride to Innsbruck was nasty. The Italian trains are dirty and smelly! If this is first class, I'd hate to see what second class looks like!

When we got on the train in Bologna, again, the compartment we had reserved was full, and we found another with only 1 man in it. We soon found out why. He was farting up a storm. A smelly storm. And he was farting loudly! Troy and I sat across from one another and communicated with our handy Ipod touch, about how smelly it was, and what we should do. Troy was even trying to muster up some of his own farts to combat with.

Finally I figured it was time to put an end to the farting, so with as much disgust as I could muster without laughing, I said to Troy, "Are you Farting?" and Troy replied "no" and I answered him, "Well it really smells bad in here!"

Troy immediately put his book in front of his face and would not make eye contact with me. I soon found out that was so he wouldn't laugh. Shortly after this, smelly left, and we did what we could to air out the compartment. What an obnoxious person! On top of the farting, he was playing video games on his cell phone, with the volume turned all the way up, he was talking loudly on his phone, and at one time, he bent his nasty face over the seat between him and I, and started doing something freaky I can't even describe. He was a nasty weirdo. Troy said he also spoke audibly to himself. We think he wanted us to leave the compartment...where would we go?

Finally the ride was finished and we arrived in Innsbruck, Austria. A country I love so dearly. We arrived at 4:33pm, and I navigated this time. We easily found our cute Austrian hotel The Weisses Kreuz, and got to our cute little room on the 5th floor, mountain view. We think Mozart stayed in our room, since it is advertised he stayed in that hotel, and there is a carving in the wall, of a date, and Mozart's name.

We settled into our hotel, and set out to explore Innsbruck. We nearly got trampled by a horse carriage, but despite that, it was a cute town. We found a restaurant for dinner called Weinerwald, sine I wanted some schnitzel.

The meal was enjoyable, but we found our waitress was quite nasty. Not to us, but to other people. The dessert we had ordered was supposed to have vanilla ice-cream. It didn't, and the waitress yelled very loudly at the girl who was delivering it. It was quite embarrassing. She took our desserts away, instead of just bringing some ice-ceam. We didn't see the waitress who was yelled at for probably 20 minutes, we thought she may be crying (I would cry if someone spoke to me that way!)

We went back to our hotel after dinner and watched an English movie on our Ipod, and had a fight over something silly that got blown out of proportion, as most fights are.

We woke up at 8am, got ready and went and had a typical Austrian breakfast buffet. From there we walked to the Gondola Station, and purchased tickets to take that and the lift to the top of the mountain. It cost nearly 50 Euro's each, but the views were worth it. The views were breath taking, too bad we couldn't stay longer!

Back in town we did some souvenir shopping, and went to check out, mail some post cards and grab a train ti Munich.

We got a yummy lunch of sandwiches and cookies to teat on the train.