Deutschland –> Italia

I slept in for the first day since the trip began.  Although I woke up once before, I stayed in bed until 11.  We got cleaned up and checked out plans across the street at the Kopfelsbergers.  We also took Kwetschgendatschi (?) for the others to taste.  Carola offered to wash our clothes, which we ended up taking with us before drying (since most places do not have dryers).  Geli (short for Angelica) took our clothes and dried them more at her place in Altotting, where we headed prior to heading to the airport.</p>

Altotting is a religious pilgrimage place and also the location of the school that Katie and the Kopfelsbergers attended. We saw the Schwarz Madonna and the nearby church. Soon after it was time to go

We then drove directly to the airport. I was excited for the stretch of autobahn (highway) on the way to Munich, since I got a nice car partly for this purpose. I only went 115 at one point; otherwise I kept it around 100 mph. Soon the highway changed back to two lanes and the fun was over. Still a fun car though.

Once in Rome we had confusion about the hotel we booked. Apparently it was in the "outer limits". We used a car service to get there since the metro would not be ideal. It looked like the Rome ghetto, but in the end the hotel was decent and we walked to a restaurant (eventually finding the right path) that was also excellent. I had Carbonera, which I was looking forward to ever since I had it a couple weeks ago at Angelina's in Green Bay. We had some wine ($8/bottle) and I also had a creme brule dessert. Excellent. There was karaoke and a bachelorette party going on, so we had free entertainment...just the bachelorette party and us. We sat in a section of the restaurant that had erotic pictures on the wall...interesting for a restaurant. I see the license on the wall that says "Eroticism" and the actual restaurant name further down, so maybe that is the motif. Either way, great food and people. In the end, the outer limits was a great experience.