Day 12

On Day 12, Tyler and I visited the Residenz, the former royal residence of the Holy Roman Empire of Bavaria. The state rooms and paintings were very interesting, as were the papal rooms..

After the Residenz, we walked by some stores on Munich's pedestrian walkway. We passed a tie store that looked interesting and Tyler decided to take a video of it. But right when he pressed the record button, all we hear out of the distance was "La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-la-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-ba-la-la-la-la-la-la." No, we weren't close to a beer garden. What it was, was 2women who worked in the tie store, diving over the counter and launching themselves at Tyler and his camera. I turn around to get out of the store, and in comes another screaming woman pointing and reaching for my camera (which was still in its case). I don't think we were allowed to take pictures in their store.

Then we went on the train to Salzburg, which would have been very uneventful, if not for something very diabolical. We exit the train in Salzburg and Tyler realizes that he no longer has his wallet. He runs back on the train, which was about to leave for Vienna, and qucikly looks for his wallet, but he can't find it. Plus, there's people who got on at Salzburg who are now sitting in our seats. Inside his wallet was his driver's license, credit card, debit card, and 60 euros. All he had left for money at that point was 100 euros in his money belt. We think it fell out of his pocket while on the train because we had our feet up on the seats opposite us.

We go to the Information desk who promptly points us to the Lost & Found desk. Unfortunately, the Lost & Found is closed, so we return to the Information desk, where the lady tells us that we'll have to come back in the morning. People are very helpful in Austria.

We then decide to find our hostel, which is a little outside Salzburg. We get to the front door and there is a sign posted saying that we have to use our code to enter the front door. (There is no one at the front desk). What code? Yes, we never received a code to open the door. There's a number to phone, but no payphone close by and Tyler's cellphone still needed a SIM card. Anyway, before too long, a couple of guys who are staying at the hostel came back and opened the door for us grudgingly, because I don't think they fully trusted that we were staying there. We get into our room and it's the nicest room we've stayed in so far. It has a kitchenette, a private bathroom and shower, and satellite TV (with hundreds of channels, but only a handful in English). We also have lots of space, both in the room and the bathroom, which is a nice change from what we're used to.

Unfortunately, since we did not know the code to the front door, one of us had to stay in the room at all times to let the other one in. So Tyler left first to use the phone to cancel his cards. After he returned, I left to go get something to eat at McDonald's, which was a 15 minute walk down the street. After I returned, Tyler was hungry so he went to McDonald's. The next day we found out that our room key worked in the front door.

So my Thanksgiving Dinner was a Big Mac and a large fry, and it was mmmmm...good. I'm lovin' it.