Well, not really. We actually did cross the border.
We got up, fairly early as usual and showered and ate breakfast, and then got all packed and ready to head to the airport. Then we still had like 2 hours left before we had planned to go. Guilherme and I sat there trying to come up with things to talk about and watched TV and napped a bit. Finally we decided to leave about half an hour earlier than we had planned out of sheer boredom. We gathered up Laritza and checked out and headed to the Hauptbahnhof. From there it was a 40 minute ride to the airport where we hung out in air conditioned wonderfulness for an hour or so until Jon showed up.
We got in Jon's rental Audi A4 and I took shotgun and got to work on figuring out the navigation system.It took me a while to figure out that Hall wasn't showing up because it was set to Germany for the country. Once we found Osterrich then it was easy to find Hall in Tirol. We weren't sure how trustworthy the navigation system was but we decided to trust it after it seemed to jive pretty good with the printed Google Maps directions we had. It (the nav system) was also periodically checking for traffic updates, and at one point directed us to leave the main highway and take some side roads to get around what appeared to be a bit of a traffic jam. It had us going on gravel roads and short sections that only had room for one way at a time.
Some of the countryside we saw on our detour off the main highway.
Anyway, about two hours later we made it to Hall without much trouble, and after a bit of driving around were able to locate the Leopoldinum where we'd be staying. It is a boarding school for what appear to be maybe middle school kids, who are gone for the summer right now. We got checked in, and found Spencer had beat us there. Our room was pretty big with 3 desks and cupboards and then the 3 beds up in a loft. Spencer started calling it the Leopold-i-drome which somehow made it seem a bit more exciting to be staying there. We were all a bit hungry at that point, having not eaten lunch, and we headed down to the Old Town part of Hall and wandered around for a while, before finding a Kebap shop that made us some excellent Kebap sandwiches.
Spencer in Old Town
Another shot of Old Town. If you look close you can see Ali Baba's kebabaria.
We then wandered around town a bit more and then came back to the Leopoldinum.
Picture looking out our window at the Leopoldinum
Later there was a opening reception where they gave us some information about the week's activities and fed us some dinner. After staying for a while, I went with Spencer over to the Kebap-shaped ParkHotel where he'd seen someone setting up a wireless router earlier in the day. We took some seats that were kind of out of the way and interneted it up for a good long while, before finally calling it a night.
More pictures from Day 5.
Coming tomorrow: Der Burgermeister
So far:
Days 1 & 2 - Exploring Munich
Day 3 - Mass Transit Extravaganza
Day 4 - Stop looking at me, schwan
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