Day 16 - Stuttgart to Munich

Woke up at 10ish to Christian's beautiful face telling me its time to wake up (not pretty). Having a big German guy wake you up like that was something right out of a bad dream and i was pretty afraid until i realized i wasn't chained up and realized that nobody had any leather on and no whips were in sight.
I didn't feel too bad, but Rob was definately in rough shape and looked like he wanted to die. We cleaned up and packed and I spent a solid hour or so updating my blog and Christian burnt all my digital pics so that i can mail them all home.
Christian and Anke made us a traditional Bavarian breakfast, although Stuttgart is not in Bavaria. The breakfast was freshly baked pretzels from the bakery and 'white' sausage. I've never seen white sausages like that, but they were very good and the pretzels were great too.
All fo the food all weekend was fantastic. Christian and, especially, Anke were teh best hosts that I could imagine and we had a fantastic time staying with them. Anke was even nice to us this morning after us being so loud and waking her up last night. Either she is genuinely nice, as she seems to be, or she just puts on a really good act and then lost her shit on Christian after we left. I think she was just that nice though and was really happy to have us. Rob thinks that she was happier than a pig in shit to have us leave...haha. Maybe a little from column A and a little from column B. Either way, she was fantastic to us.
They dropped us off at the train station and we took a 15:58 train to Munich. Train ride was okay adn we stayed out of the smoking cars (live and learn). Seeing the countryside from the train is pretty cool and the forests here in the south of GErmany are pretty cool and almost look kind of enchanted or something, not sure what it is. They're not dissimilar to Ontario, but there's definately something different about them.
We got to Munich in the rain, but we thankfully found our hostel quickly and it was very close to the station.
We were both still exhausted so we hit the phones and internet for about an hour, and then grabbed some quick pizza and then back to the hostel to bed early.
Over pizza we decided we will leave Munich Tuesday and head for Innsbruck, Austria to do some hiking, and then probably to Zurich, Interlaken adn somewhere south to see the Matterhorn, but nothing beyond Innsbruck is of course set in stone.
Up at 7am tomorrow to hit Oktoberfest, Munich! Drunk and in bed by noon i'm sure!