24 hours in Würzburg!

We woke up bright and early Monday morning to Nicole having a swollen eye, which is an unsolved mystery. We think it may have been caused by all the use of public transportation and aslo by their lack of hand soap over here.
We headed to the train station to catch our 9AM train to Würzburg. But, before boarding, Nicole bought a Cappuccino to warm her bones and an ice water to reduce the swelling of her eye. After a nice, quick ride to Würzburg, we jumped off the train to find Katharina walking towards us!
Katharina studied abroad in Monterey when Nicole was a sophomore in high school, so I has been 8 years since they have seen each other.
Katharins welcomed us with open arms and she took us to her and her fiances new apartment.
It is 3 flights of stairs up, at the top of the building. It has an incredible view of the castle Marienberg. Since it was raining, we hung out indoors, catchin' up on old times and we lavished her with all of our crazy stories of the past month.
We got our last load of laundry done for the trip, for free this time, thanks to Katharina! And then headed out to do a quick tour of Würzburg.
Katharina took us all around town, first showing us a night view of the Residenz in Würzburg and we peered through the closed gates to see the Hoftgarten(their beautiful garden). Unfortunately, this was all closed when we arrived there.
We also took som epictures of the Marienburg Castle from the 15th century stone bridge, Alte Mainbrücke. While on the bridge, Katharina pointed out to us the Alter Kranen (old crane), which serviced a dock on the river back..."a really long time ago," she said. :)
After our tour, we went back to her place to meet her fiance, Todd, so we could all go out to a wonderful German restaurant.
Katharina and Todd ordered us some wine, made right in Würzburg and also hlped us decide on dinner, since the menu was in German.
Katharina recommended the schnitzel, an authentic German meal of fried pork. Both Katie and Nicole went with her recommendation, but Nicole got it Cordon Bleu style, which is fried pork with ham and cheese. And mmh mmh was it delicious.
After dinner we headed back to their place, watched a little T.V., then hit the sack at a decent hour.
Tuesday morning our train to Berlin was scheduled to leave at 11:30AM. Katharina gathered up some quick breakfast for us and we sat around her table chatting until it was time for our departure.
We had a smooth ride up to Göttingen, where we had to switch trains. After barely making it onto our next train, we had just two more hours until Berlin.
After trying to follow the horrible directions to our hostel, we finally made it. We got all settled in, then headed to a German restaurant our hostel recommended. Nicole and Katie both went with the schnitzel again. With full bellys we headed back to the hostel and made our way up to the top floor, where the bar was located. We ordered a pitcher of beer, had a lil chat, then decided to call it an early night.