No description Today we took a bus tour to the Neuschwanstein castle with a stop on the way at a small woodcarving shop. The shop had all sorts of cool woodcarvings, nutcrackers, cuckoo clocks, nativity scenes and lots of little people. Next stop was a famous church known for its statue of Jesus. Apparently when the statue was first made it was considered ugly but then some lady said that she saw it cry and claimed it had healing powers so lots of pilgrims came to see it and be healed. The chuch was built so that more people could see it. The church was really beautiful. The day started out kind of wet and never really dried off. It rained most of the time we were out until we got back to Garmisch after the end of the tour. The last stop was the Neuschwanstein castle which is the castle that Disney was inspired by. When we got to the castle area we had lunch at a cafe and walked around until our tour. The castle was built by King Ludwig II as a vacation home and most of the rooms in the castle had magical themes. Neuschwanstein means New Swan Stone in German and refers to the fact that the castle was built on the foundation of another castle which is built directly into the swan stone of the mountain. After the tour of the castle and waiting in the rain for a while we took a route back through Austria. We even passed the old checkpoints that were last used only a couple of years ago before the European Union started. The sun finally broke through the clouds when we got back to Garmisch. We then went to dinner at a nice Yugoslavian restaurant recommended by our tour guide. Then we went back to the hotel to go to sleep.