We storm Munich

After a few days in Bamberg, Zach, Katie & I headed down to Munich. We spent the first day just walking around the city. We walked by the opera house and down the most expensive street in Munich, complete with Gucci and all the other stores that most people only looking into longingly. Then we walked through the big open air market and had a snack of some Bratwurste. Next we walked by the toy museum and the town hall. Outside of the town hall, there was a lit Christmas tree. By tree, I mean TREE. This tree was almost as tall as the entire town hall building. It was huge. I cannot imagine someone going out into the forest to get a tree and trying to carry this one home. Unbelievable. Then we played super tourist and went to the Hofbrauhaus for some beer and pretzels. We walked around a bit more before dinner and purchased a few souvenirs. Dinner was amazing. We ate over by the art museum district at a restaurant called Deeba. It was Pakistani and oh so tasty. After the meal, we were all very full, so we went back to our hotel and had a quiet evening. The next day we had breakfast and checked out. As we were walking to the train station to put our suitcase in a locker and buy our ticket back to Bamberg, we walked by a construction site. They were tearing down a building with a construction ball. Don't get to see that too often! Our first big stop of the day with the Pinakothek der Moderne [the modern art museum], where there were many wide-ranging exhibits from design & architecture to surrealism & abstract painting. For lunch, we had sushi around the corner from the musuem. Then we headed to the other side of the city to the Deutsches Museum [German science museum]. This museum is huge. I have been there more than 4 times and have yet to see everything. We went through about one and a half floors, including rooms on physics, chemistry, science & fiction, the history of musical instruments, and aviation. Very cool. It was getting late, so we came headed back to the train station and back to Bamberg.