Getting the most of our card!

What a busy day we had today before 11am (before our Innsbruck card wasn't valid anymore).

We started at the town's tower where we both climbed the tower to get some great views of the city and then headed to the Court Church just after 9am and took a really, really neat multi-media tour/presention about Maximillion, the former Emperor od Austria (centuries ago). It was a really neat tour that was lead by a pre-recorded voice that took us through different rooms (doora opened to us on cue!) until we could use headsets in the church were Maximillion's sarcophagus was. The emperor's wish was to have family and royalty surrounding him in death (he wanted to live forever) and so many bronze statues were extravagently crafted of kings, leaders, wives and his daughter to surround him. It honestly was very creepy at first, until our audio sets told us who people were. It was all very cool.

We then headed to the apline museum to look at information about mountaineering through the ages and to watch some really wicked wipeouts that have been caught on camera over the years (enough to be glad that we hiked yesterday...). Then we headed into the Imperial Palace to look around. We didn't get headsets by mistake so just wandered through rooms on our own. It was similar to the Schonbrunn palace in Vienna as the same people used it at times. I learned that chairs carried certain significance based on their make and model (a toyota to a mercedes, lol).

We spent the afternoon souvenir shopping and had a really nice time looking at all the trinkets in the stores.

We had pizza for dinner in our room and are about to hit the hay in preparation for our journey tomorrow to Venice!

Sweet dreams!

Amanda