We had breakfast at a really nice cafe that I can't remember the name of. We had a croissant, plum streudel, and cafe lattes. Then, we headed to Belvedere Castle to see the gardens. Unfortunately, the gardens were not much to look at. We ended up walking around in some kind of garden that was free. There were a few pretty sights to see, including this field of bamboo. Eric has a thing for bamboo so I had to take his picture in the middle of all the bamboo.
Next, we headed to the Hofburg Treasury, where the Hofburgs kept their most prized possessions, including things like wood from the "true cross" (the cross that Jesus died on) and part of the table cloth from the Last Supper. It's hard to say if these things are real or not, but it's crazy to think that we might have seen something like that.
Then we went to the Naschmarkt and walked around for a bit. There were food booths and souvenir shops. We ate at a place called Nordsee (I think it's a chain) and had some seafood. We also bought some chocolate kuchen and took it back to the apartment to eat. It was amazing and was different from any kind of kuchen I have had here.
And I have to include this picture of Anya just because it's funny. She kept taking her hair out just about every day so it would look crazy like this. Plus, I think we were eating the kuchen shown above.
We finished packing things up and picked up some sandwiches to take for dinner on the overnight train. We got a taxi to the train station and were able to find our train right away, though I was nervous because the train went all the way to Cologne and our tickets said something a little different. Thankfully, it ended up being ok. Here are a couple of pictures of our train compartment.
The curved thing on the left is actually a sink. When we took everything off the top, it flipped up and we could wash our face and hands. There were a couple of spots to put luggage and we had to stuff some of them under the seat. The seat actually pulled down to make a bed and there was another bed above it. It was kind of a bunk bed arrangement.
The overnight train Eric and I took to from Munich to Venice a few years ago actually had a public shower. This train did not have one, but we were prepared for that. We didn't have a toilet in our compartment but there was one in our train car so we just had to go down the hall to get to it. It is definitely cramped to sleep in a compartment like this, but it is definitely something everyone should do at least once in one's lifetime. It is an experience!
We decided that I would sleep with Ani on the bottom bunk because I was freaked out about sleeping on the top, even though there was something there to keep you from falling. But I was scared to death of rolling on top of her or of her falling off. She slept on the inside of course but I could never get comfortable.
This was the night we were most worried about Anya sleeping but she was awesome. After we ate, she told us she was sleepy and that she wanted to lay down. We figured we could use the extra sleep so we decided to go to bed, too. She was asleep in literally minutes and slept like a log all night long. We were the ones who couldn't sleep. The train kept going up and down and stopping and starting at different stops. Halfway through the night, Eric and I switched spots. I slept a little better on the top bunk because I wasn't with Anya but I had nightmares about missing our stop. We only had 2 minutes to get off the train when it stopped at Mainz and this really worried me because we had Anya and a lot of luggage.
The next morning, we arrived in Germany....
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