Innsbruck

On Tuesday we decided to drive to Innsbruck Austria for the day.  We parked at the parking garage in the old town area (seems like every city/town has an old part for shopping) and headed to buy tickets for the train up the mountain.  It was another funicular which also separated by car vertically so we could look out over the roof of the car in back or front of us depending on which direction we were going.

 We got off on the last stop and bought tickets for the cable car (and it was Marc's idea) to go higher up.  Here is what the view looked like from the cable car stop.

There was a little restaurant up there and Marc got some Apple streudel and it was yummy!  Notice the jacket...it was chilly up there and had been overcast all morning.

 We walked on a little path and then a littler path along the side of the mountain.  I was kind of scared, but did it!  That little path on the right side was where we walked.

 Views from the path--well worth the shaky legs!!

 Along the trail we also saw some beautiful alpine flowers.

We headed back and got on the cable car and this was our view ten minutes after the above pictures.

And another minute as we were going down...

 We wanted to eat lunch once down and headed to old town.  We found an Austrian restaurant which had the best food!  Marc had spaghetti with meat sauce and I had bratwurst, sauerkraut, and boiled potatoes. Yum!!  Here are some pictures from old town Innsbruck.

This morning we packed up and left Germany, drove through a part of Austria, and are now in a hotel in Switzerland near the Zurich airport.  It has been the best and somehow the longest couple of two weeks!  See you at home!!