Well, I just finished the ultimate road trip and have
arrived in Vienna! I’m going to split up my posts about each city/country
because I took so many pictures and we did so much, and I don’t want to leave
out anything! Our first stop was Dresden. What a gorgeous city! I can’t believe
that it was completely demolished due to bombings—you can’t even tell. The
buildings have all been restored to what they looked like before they were
destroyed, and they’re gorgeous.
We did our favorite thing in Dresden:
EXPLORATION! We visited an art gallery full of Renaissance paintings. The main
highlight was the Sistine Madonna. It is a really beautiful painting. The museum was
massive and slightly overwhelming. One can look at paintings from the same era
for only so long. Caspar David Friedrich is from Dresden, so I was hoping to
see some paintings by him, but unfortunately, we only had time to visit the
Renaissance art gallery. We also stood on a bridge that overlooked the skyline of Dresden! There were fields of tall grass, so naturally, we had to frolic through them :)
The next day, we went to the Freiburg Temple. It was so
gorgeous and peaceful. I miss going every week, so this was a really wonderful
opportunity to go while in Germany.
Later that afternoon, we went to the
Sächische Schweiz, but we like to refer to it as the Sexy Schweiz. It’s a
national park on the border of Germany and the Czech Republic. Pretty much our
entire group went hiking. We had to take a ferry across the Danube. Some people
in our group decided to swim across instead! I just love our group. :)
Hiking in the Alps is amazing! It’s stunningly beautiful.
Colter and I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to take a great Titanic picture.
The best part of the hike? I stood where Caspar David Friedrich stood to paint
one of his paintings! So I guess that makes up for not being able to see any of
his paintings in Dresden—I got to see one of his paintings, but the real life
version of it. Ah! :)
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