Chilling (Literally) in München

22/23.7.10--Holzkirchen, München

Not a whole lot happened on Thursday, just school and then chillin at home.  We watched a movie about König Ludwig II, who brought Wagner to fame, loved his married cousin, was engaged to her sister, was assumed gay, built a few beautiful castles, and went insane in his later years.  It was interesting, but had that 50s movie corniness. 

Friday was a tad more interesting.  After school, I went to the HEP (tiny new "mall" in town) with a few other students, and then chilled around til we met up again to go to München.  After a bit of confusion with people being late and such, we finally ate dinner at a Mexican restaurant, which, contrary to what I had previously heard, wasn´t too bad.  It´s a good thing we were there during happy hour though, because it would´ve been ridiculously expensive otherwise.  With the reduced prices, my enchilada con carne and a drink was 13 Euro.  Not too bad for a huge delicious dinner.  We then met up with a few others and one of the other student´s host sister took us out on the town to show us the München nightlife.  Despite a few speedbumps, a good time was had by all.



24.7.10--München

After sleeping in a bit (11:40...early for me by home standards, but late for my normal here), a couple of us went to München for the day.  There was apparently a festival at the Olympic Stadium tonight, with fireworks and such, but it was really cold and rainy so we decided not to.  It´s been awfully cold and rainy for the past few days, and it´s going to continue like this for the next week or so until it warms up.  A few days ago it was like 90 out, and today it was 57.  Crazy shit.  Not exactly too excited for tomorrow, when we go up in the mountains to see Schloss Neuschwanstein (built by King Ludwig II) and then sit outside for 6 hours watching the Oberamergau Passion Play (2 of those 6 are intermission=dinner).  Anyway, so after a bit of shopping, we went to an Indian restaurant, which was pretty tasty.  Then the rest of them went to BMW-Welt, which I could really care less about, so I went off on my own, walked around the city, and got some souvenir shopping out of the way.  When they were done, we met up again, walked around a bit more, and then decided to mosy on home.  Got some dinner at the Hauptbahnhof, and got on the BOB (Bayerische Oberland Bahn).  While on the train, we got surveyed--where were we coming from, how did we get there, where we were going, how we get home, how often we ride the BOB, do we like it, etc.  And now I am here.  And cold.  I hope there is at least a semi-roof or blankets or something tomorrow.


And, yet another album up: München part 1--  http://www.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2049782&id=1135320260&l=3e0b074062