Day 16 and 17 Munich

Our day began with a 9 hour bus ride. Woooo. That was fun, except it wasn't comfortable and Cindy lost most feeling in her tiny butt. The actual ride wasn't too bad, we slept most of the way and listened to music and watched movies on Cindy's ipod. Once we got to Munich we got into our rooms unpacked and changed and headed to town.

We were about 20 stops away from Karlplatz on the tram so after a long tram ride we finally got to town. We were supposed to do a walking tour of the area but everyone was tired, and hungry so we headed straight to the Hofbrauhaus after a brief pause in front of the Glockenspiel for pictures. Cindy and I felt right at home each ordering a liter of beer, and splitting some Kasespatzle and a pretzel. We joined a "cheers" off with another table seeing who could shout and toast the loudest and since Cindy was at our table we obviously won. Especially after she stood on the table with a boy from the group and got yelled at by the waiters. So we toned it down after and enjoyed the Umpaa band and the food and beer for a bit. Until the rest of the group joined us at our table because they had been "cut off" at their table and got all of us kicked out!!!!! So we left the Hofbrauhaus a bit sad and went through the square again took some more pictures. Then Cindy saw her favorite fountain that she had run through the last time she was here and her and a guy on the trip decided that it was a must to repeat. So a very wet and cold Cindy boarded the tram after hugging everyone that she came in contact with and we headed back to the hotel.

Day 17

So Cindy and I decided to sleep in a bit and let our roommate have full use of the bathroom and we then slowly got ready before getting directions to the S-bahn and the post office. We mailed a package home to mom and then boarded the S-bahn after a bit of confusion with getting our tickets and headed to Unterhaching. Unterhaching is the town Oma was born in and we wanted to see the house that she grew up in. We got to Unterhaching which is a small town and walked around a bit and tried to figure out just where Oma's street (Robert Koch) is. Cindy asked a lady and she actually complemented Cindy on her good German skills but all Cindy got out of her is go left after the bridge. We never found a bridge. So we ended up walking into the Rathaus or town hall getting maps and asking the lady at the desk. Once again Cindy's excellent German skills helped us out and we found out we were only a few streets away. Unfortunately Cindy lacks map skills and didn't believe me as I read the map and we got lost for about 10min anyway.

Luckily we found Oma's street walked around for a bit before realizing that her house number 5 no longer exists. It has now been converted to either a school or apartment buildings. We took some great shots anyway grabbed a sandwich and a pastry and got back on the S-bahn.

We decided to go to Olympic park where the 1972 summer Olympics were held. It is now a great park complete with running and biking paths and paddle boating on the little lake. So we walked around sat on a park bench ate our pastry, took a picture of a typical european family because they just looked ridiculous and then headed back on the subway to the main square.

We were in search of new birkes unfortunately our search failed. They were all 65-70 euro. Way to pricey for us. So we walked around town saw the Frauenkirche, the Salavator Kirche, the glockenspiel again which never went off either time that we sat there with our cameras ready and many other sites. We ended up having a seat at the beer garden in the old town of Marienplatz which is my favorite area because it has that german feel with lots of little shops around and little markets for you to wander through. We had a beer and a pretzel and ended up taking pictures of Cindy's favorite Germans, German's with socks and sandals. Yes ladies and gentlemen we have an entire album of this. We stalked people too to get really excellent pictures. We had a great time.

After we tired (yes I know we tired of the picture taking) we hopped back on the tram and headed to the hotel where we ran into the rest of the group that was heading out to where we just were to watch the Netherlands vs. Uruguay soccer game. So we grabbed some warmer clothes since it cools to about 60 degrees at night and headed back with them.

We sat in the beer garden and enjoyed a beer and the game and cheered for the Netherlands. After a stressful first half they finally scored and kept it up!!! There was a lot of cheering and it actually got a little close at the end of the game but the Netherlands came out on top and will be in the finals on Saturday. We will arrive in Amsterdam on Sunday so it could get interesting if they win the cup! After the game we headed back to the hotel with the group but Cindy saw a Doner place that was open and she leapt up (yes leapt it was the most exercise I've ever seen her do) and ran from the tram as I followed and got herself a Doner at around 1130pm. We enjoyed the doner and hopped onto a subway and headed back to the hotel to pack up prior to our departure the next morning to Prague.