Oktoberfest and Cinderella

 My weekend trip to Oktoberfest and Fussen, Germany was an adventure. On Friday morning I caught a train with 4 other girls to Oktoberfest. It was crazy, on the ride there we met 5 other students (they were from all over: Salzburg, England, Spain, etc) but they all studied abroad in Flagstaff last year! They'd been to Kingman before which was really rare considering most people I met in Oregon didn't even know where Kingman was. I met one of the girls that lives in Salzburg for coffee last week. She studies at the University of Salzburg and is involved in a lot of stuff in the city which is nice because she updates me on local events ha. Oktoberfest was a lot better than I was expecting. I thought it was just all beer tents (since drinking is all you here about it in the States) but it was really a huge carnival. There were rides and cotton candy and kids and families all over. Of course there were huge beer tents and that’s were all the craziness happens ha. We had a blast, but that night two other friends (John and Bethany) and I caught a train to Fussen, Germany. We got there about 1 in the morning and didn’t have a hostel so we slept on a bench in a park ha! It was freezing and super uncomfortable but we made it fine. We would get up every few hours to walk around and try to warm up until finally at 6am a coffee shop opened (Nothing is open 24hrs in Europe). The next day we hiked to the Newschwanstein castle which is the castle Cinderella’s castle was based off of. It was in the Alps over looking 5 lakes and with a waterfall to its side. So beautiful! I think my favorite part was hiking around rather than the actual castle. We lucked out with beautiful weather and everything was just so peaceful. Bethany and John are really good to travel with just because we’re all pretty chill people. We don’t need plans and just kind of go with the flow of things.

John and I in front of the castle