night train = wierdest experience of my life...

well, we are here in munich, we arrived at 8:30 this morning after being on a train since 1400 yesterday. (i have fully embraced military time) for some reasom if you want to go to munich from the south of france...they take you all the way back up to paris, make you switch stations (paris has 6) and then take you back down again. all in all...16 hours on a train.

the night train wouldnt have really been a big deal had we been able to get sleeper cars. they were all sold out. so, the only seats left were these 5 foot by 7 foot rooms with 6 airplane type seats in them all facing each other. hannah and i's seats were in the middle. somehow you are supposed to sleep here. so you get in your little cubby hole, shove your pack 35 lb pßack over your head (which i can now do with no problem...im getting tougher by the day...) and then sleep in this little room, with no ventilation, staring at strangers. AKWARD!!!

we were ok at first, we had two asians that didnt speak english, a french dude who didnt really speak english, and an american guy who is moving to munich and offerred to give me and hannah free tours of the city. NO THANK YOU!!!! (in a lovely twist of fate, he also happens to be romming at our hostel...why does this happen to us) those who spoke english all chatted for a while, and i fell asleep for a while, but then by a few hours later, the need to get out of the room was imperative. lol. it smelled horribel, and was like 90 degrees in there so we left. the whole train was completely full though...but we had to get away from everybody, and could not go back into our little germ breeding cubby. (the asian chick next to me had a nasty cold...caughing everywhere in that heat with no air flow...no thank you!!!)

so we ended up in the bike room. thats right, hannah and i spent the night in the ventalated bike rack room, on the floor of a dirty german train. not an experience to be repeated. (but somehow it felt cleaner than our seats...thats how bad it was...)
we arent aloowed to check into our hostel until 1500, so we took a little nap on a street corner in munich. we have officially turned homeless for the moment. parents grab the hands of their children when they walk past us. lol. i officially appear to be a threat to society. haha.

needless to say, we miss the south of france. we were in the town of arles...i think my favorite destination so far. it was beautiful there...van gough was institutionalized there, and did several paintings during that time. (including starry night) if you look up what he painted while in arels, provence...those works are an awesome portrait of the town. It was nice and kicked back, we pretty much just hung out at the cafe, and walked around town, and sat on the banks of the rhone river that borders the town. it was awesome. the accents down there were pretty dang thick though...lol. we could never understand a word our desk clerk said...i swear he wasnt speaking french or english. (subsequently he couldnt understand a word that we said eiher...lol) it deffinately cancelled out all negative feelings towards france that we were possibly harboring. lol.

anyways, we can unload our pictures at the hostel were at, so ill probably be putting some up at some point today...i think hannah is uploading some right now...so if i dont get any up...just check hers. hannah-europe.blogspot.com

love you all!!
(sue...please assure jeremy that i dont spend my wholoe trip on the computer...up till now, it feels as though i spend most of it on the trains and the metro. lol...he can calm down about it. haha)