Innsbruck, Austria

On our way to Austria (Dec. 29, 2006) the tour bus crossed through the Alps and the views where amazing as you can see from the picture above. We also had a chance to see the Neuschwanstein Castle (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neuschwanstein) in Germany. You can see it from the road (the yellow box is not actually there).
A few people had never seen snow before and they got out of the bus and started a snow fight!!! As for me I thought I would escape snow this year but it seems to follow me everywhere :-(.
Here we are on the road toward the castle:

As you can see the castle was huge and we had to go up the mountain in a horse carriage in order to get to it. The castle employees where trying to get as many people as possible inside the carriage so I ended up almost on the lap of the carriage driver..lucky me?!?!?! I think he smelled worse than the horses!!!! But it was worth it!!!

Here we are in front of the castle's main entrance.
The castle was very impressive inside (sorry you can't take pictures in the inside). It was full of paintings, mosaics, murals and very elaborate wood carvings. There was one room that had paintings and sculptures everywhere with more than 1,000 white swans. We where like why are they so many swans? At the end of the tour I asked the guide "Where was the queen of this castle?" (she was never mentioned). The guide replied: "The only queen was the king", hahaha no wonder, the king was gay!!! That explains all the extravagances!!!

Once we arrived in Innsbruck I was impressed by the view of this huge town in the middle of the Alps as you can see below:
Here is a picture of The Golden Roof. It's balcony was used by royalty to watch events in the square below since 1500 and it looks like new!!!
Iddya in the streets (I'm not actually dancing if you where wondering)

Check out one of the cool buildings all around town:

For a parting thought here is Orlando in his signature pose: