Munich

Last weekend we went to Munich! Me Kalyn and Maggie had so much fun! We rode the train (my first time) and I was able to see how beautiful Germany is! Seriously i wish I could find a place in the states with this much green.

It rained all day on Saturday which was kinda a bummer but we made the most of it and explored the sites. Munich is a pretty crazy town. We really embeded ourselves in the culture and spoke as much german as possible. I am slowly learning the basic so i can at least get my needs met. Munich reminded me a lot of san francisco with street performers and thousands of people rushing through the streets. A lot of people would bump into me and not even react. For how slow paced German life seems this town was quite shocking. Its so bizzare to wonder the streets and see so much history all over the place. THe buildings are hundreds of years old (something we never experience in the states)The rain kinda kept us from doing tours so we just explored on our own. The main plaza is called marienplatz and it has a huge cathedral with a glockenspiel. Hitler did a lot of speeches in Munich during the war and prior to its beginnings.

We ran into so many Germans celebrating their bacholor parties. The were hilarious. Dressed up like women and singing drinking songs. We even ran into a guy dressed as a viking singing Opera!! :) That made my day! (I have a video but its not posted yet) Next we headed to the hofbrauhaus... It was just like in the movie beerfest. There were so many tables and a huge culture shock was the fact that you just sit at a table with other peopel you dont know (which I guess is common in Germany) So we filled a table with some people from Hungary. During dinner we had live traditional german music, people dancing on tables. being dressed in laderhoisen, and some many different countries represented under one roof. CRAZINESS. I had a blast. The beer mugs were almost to heavy to hold.

After dinner we went to our hostile. It was a room with 10 beds divided into 3 sections. But the blankets were amazing (def better than the baracks we usually sleep in). We woke up the next morning and explored and had breakfast then headed home. :) Great trip great trip.