Although Mitzi's small, she's still pretty heavy to carry around when she falls asleep or wants to be held. Here Brecken's helping out by carrying her for a minute.

Neuschwanstein is the famous castle of southern Germany, but Fussen, only about 5 miles from Neuschwansein has a castle as well that has great views of the city, and an art collection. It's pretty interesting seeing some of the art from the middle ages.

On the outside of Fussen castle, it was painted with some pretty cool designs and pictures, as well as this clock.

In Fussen, they had these fountains that were on top of the large rock columns, then the tops would spin as the water came out. The kids really liked it.

Although I'm not in very many pictures, as I'm usually the one taking the pictures, Brad took one of me on the bridge overlooking Neuschwanstein Castle.

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Neuschwanstein Castle & Fussen. I went for about a two hour ride this morning in the rain, despite what I said yesterday about riding in the rain. I wanted to get my ride in, as I hadn’t the last couple of mornings. It was really coming down at times. I was totally soaked. I felt like I was riding my bike through a cold a lake.
We went and saw the town of Fussen first. It has it’s own castle and a lot of the rooms had been furnished with art work from the middle ages. Some of it was really cool, some was a bit odd, and some was downright weird. There was one picture that was supposed to depict when King Herod had the babies killed, trying to kill off the new “king”. It had a bunch of plump, very alive looking babies on the end of swords with blood gushing out. Pretty gory. We then walked along the castle walls overlooking the city. Everyone was pretty hungry and most of the stores weren’t open. Apparently today was some type of holiday. There was a store open that sold these ball type things that were like strands of dough formed into a ball, then fried. Some of them had coatings like chocolate or powdered sugar, and some of them had some filling as well. They were OK, but not great. Different than anything I had tried before. We then hiked up to Neuschwanstein Castle. It’s about a ½ hour hike. The stroller we bought for Mitzi was perfect, and has been great going over coble stones and hiking around towns with her in it. The hike was beautiful and the forests look fantastic with tall trees, ferns, very green and mossy. The hard part is taking Mitzi into castles like Neuschwanstein. Her attention doesn’t hold too long, and she has to be held almost the whole time. Neuschwanstein was pretty amazing. I find a lot of things they did back then amazing in that they didn’t have the power tools, computers, and other equipment we have today, yet they build these massive amazing castles up on the top of a hill. It probably had 4-6 floors. After the castle tour, Brad and I hiked up to the bridge that overlooks the castle while the others grabbed a bite to eat in the castle café.