Talk about a trip. I just got back from Garmisch, which is a army owned resort community on the outskirts of the austrian alps. Yeah, if you cant tell it was awesome from that you need some wicked culturizing! We were driving along heading south on the audobahn, and as the haze cleared, I saw a wall of mountains from as far left and right as my eyes could see. We drive a little further and get to the cabin that we rented for dirt cheap (military benafits are off the heezy!), we get settled in and I go to head out the door back to the car to head to the commisary to get some grub, and I am met with the most beautiful view outside of texas that I have ever seen. Three mountains so high it hurt my neck to look up at them for long, and all with their powdered sugar-like snowcapped peaks. Its hard to put into words just how cool it was. Once I got done gawking at the view we went to the commisary and got a bunch of marinated porksteaks and buns and headed back to have ourselves a nice meal. After that we just sat around talking and telling stories till almost midnight. It was definately some good times. Today we got up and headed to Noischwanstein (sp) (its the castle that everyone talks about that supposedly inspired walt disney to come up with the castle at disney world). Yeah, it looks nothing like the disney world castle, but it was highly impressive. It was raining all morning, so that made the mile plus hike up the mountain that it sat on even more unattractive. It was pretty cool castle, it wasnt that old, and was just made for fun so it didnt really have a purpose, so it was decked out to the nines with paintings and woodwork and all that. I took alot of pics so they should be circulating around in a week or so. I'm gonna head back to the dorms, I just wanted to talk about my days off. Have fun, and be safe everybody!