princesses and castles

i'll pretend to be the princess and here is my castle. 

normally this is surrounded by the alps.  instead, we got fog.

 this is Neuschwanstein Castle built in the late 1800s by king Ludwick II.  He was nuts and would regularly walk around the castle dressed like the swan king.  He only lived here 174 days when the townspeople he was taking taxes from decided to have a doctor check out his mental status.  He was raided in his bedroom and told he was no longer able to be king because he was declared insane.  A few days later both he and the doctor were found dead in a lake.  6 weeks later the castle opened up as a museum and has 1.3M people visit regularly.

this was one of kim's ideas.  kim is my awesome friend who lives in germany and was kind (& patient enough) to hang out with us a couple days as our tour guide.