Friday, July 18, 2008

Howdy from Texas!

Hey everyone, this is Andrew and I'm kidding about the Texas thing. We're in Fussen, Germany at an internet cafe waiting on our ride back to Munich to head to lovely Frankfurt. Frankfurt will be out homebase while we travel to smaller cities in close proximity and what not. Anyways, back to our travels.

It looks like Stevie left off at the night before our big romp through the Duetches Museum. As far as museums go, it was insane. As stevie said we spen over two hours looking at boats, from canoes to huge war ships. That really didn't prepare us for the madness that was to ensue. We then spent a good hour looking at planes, trains, and automobiles. Chemistry experiments followed where we got to mix up some neat ingrediaents to make something new, somehow I found myself in the fermentation exhibit.....weird. I could go on and on about the magnitude of the museum but you can look it up and get a good idea for yourself.

After lunch in the museum it was time to hit up another beer garden, the Augustiner something or another. There was an old man sitting across from us who wa son his 3rd beer, we could tell by the notches on his coaster made by the waiter. The old man got up to use the restroom and the waiter dropped off another beer. Well apparently the old man wasn't aware of ordering or the waiters are used to just bringing him one after another, because the look on his face when he saw the new beer was a look of confusion and exhaustion. He then proceded to shrug his shoulders and sit down for another drink.

WE went to Munich Residence which was the political center to the first dukes, then the electors (from 1623) and finally the kings of Bavaria (1806-1918).......I had the brochure in my pocket. It was insane ton's of stuff a good king want's, including a bedroom devoted only to looking like a very nice bedroom, and was not to be used.

Englischer Gardens was fantastic, especially playing nude frisbee with the locals, pictures soon. The have a huge beer garden and Bavarian food pavillions in the middle of the park, and it took a long time to get to the middle, very very big park. Just kidding about the nude frisbee by the way, but we did make it a point to get a little closer to laugh at the well tanned old people. After all that we just shopped a little in the Marienplatz, ate some more, probably more beer and so forth.

Munich has easly been both of our favorite cities so far, (and it wasn't just the beer Mom). It was beautiful, extremely laid back and loaded with cultre. I'll let Stevie update you on Fussen and the like becasue our train should be here soon. Love you guys, keep the comments coming.

4 comments:

Jami said...

What a nice way to start my morning, I have my coffee and an entertaining blog entry :)

Anonymous said...

So glad to finally hear from you guys. As a mom I was worried and as usual for naught. I am so glad you are having such a good time. Your poor brains must be overflowing with beauty , info, and such. Can't wait to see pictures. Love you both and can't wait for updates on your adventures.

Love

Mom

Anonymous said...

So glad you all are having a great time. Also glad you finally wrote something in your blog, mom was getting worried. lol Can you send one of those pretzels in the mail, i am hungry. Have fun and I am thinking of you all.

Anonymous said...

Andrew sorry I missed your call. I was in the pool with the baby and phone in my room. You sounded tired. Are u guys due a vacation day from your vacation. Hopefully you will get to call again. Miss you guys. Stay safe and have fun.

Love
Mom