Day 4: We take budget showers, look at some stamps and drive through a lot of tunnels

1 Tom Tailor leprechaun + Mirm

In the morning none of us wanted to leave our warm sleeping bags. Since every minute we spent there was one less minute we could spend in Liechtenstein we skadoodled to the showers. We quickly figured out the hot water part of the shower was not in our budget (free). The temperature also seemed like they pumped it directly from the alps. The best part of the morning was when we saw Tom Tailor leprechaun prancing across the grass.

We drove through the maximum amount of Switzerland possible, starting in the south and exiting in the northeast. We ate some Toblerone and had some trouble taking photos in a field. Mirm got super excited about all the grass and Waffle was not excited and got quite dramatic about the 100km speed limit. We drove around Switzerland quite a bit since the Swiss don't seem to like letting you know where their roads are and whether they are closed or not.

Grass!!!

Maybe my grandmother's roses came from Liechtenstein?

Are you sure that's okay for humans?

Stamps!

We arrived in Liechtenstein sooner than we realized without fanfare, if we blinked we would have missed it. Unlike our usual record, we arrived in time for the tourist office to actually be open. We walked around the town center and found the stamp museum; stamps are one of the things Liechtenstein is famous for. The other thing Liechtenstein is famous for is money. We then drove a windy road up the mountains to the not so random castle on the hill. Turns out the royal family lives there, so we couldn't go in, of course someone didn't realize that the castle was something special until we left. Turns out grandmothers all have the same roses and they could come from Lichtenstein as well. Waffle tried to get get us to drink out of a random trough/fountain he claimed was clean. Apparently this is how you do it in Europe.

Innsbruck in the rain

Arriving in Austria we went through a 10.3 km tunnel under one of the highest mountains in Austria.  Austria is the land of tunnels, tunnels tunnels and more tunnels. They love their animals in Austria so they build tunnels even under small hills.We had our first rain of the trip in Austria, at one point it was not raining on one side of the tunnel and pouring coming out the other side.

Our first stop was Innsbruck, not at all like the Innsbrook in Richmond, Virginia. We walked the beautiful city center taking lots of photos, or at least one of us was. We had more snacks in a McDonalds housed in a building probably older than the discovery of America. P.S. Happy 4th of July! Then a thunderstorm rolled in and we ducked into the Swarkoffski crystal store with displays of 63,000 euro chandeliers, stairs covered in crystals and a crystal laser light show. After the rain storm we caught a live classical music show in a palace courtyard. We had a beer and listened for a while. Just a live classical music concert in Austria, no big deal.

We made 4 border crossings, only driving through Germany briefly and then back into Austria. Unfortunately Waffle couldn't travel as fast as he wanted to on the autobahn since we hit a huge thunderstorm with some impressive lightening.  It slowed us down quite a bit since it was a little bit like driving underwater. We were entertained for a while at least until it started to hit all around us and our little white lion. That Germany, so rainy right now. We finally drove through it and then saw a beautiful full orange moon.

OOOooooooooo!

We saw the track for the high speed train that goes 320km per hour. Mirm and I learned and laughed about the German word for exit, ausfahrt (teheheh). Waffle didn't understand why we thought it was funny. Someone almost learned to tell the difference between a church and a castle.  We arrived in Linz, Austria,  at Waffle's parents house, ate some sausages and cheese and slept like babies.