Great hostel right next to the Oktoberfest Field
Oktoberfest Field! 200th anniversary next year!
Best pretzels ever.
These pig things where you rub the nose are all over Europe.
Cool church in the heart of munich
Amazing Dali painting, this is just a close up to show the detail.
Cool design through history exhibition in the Modern Art Museum.
River surfing in the English Garden!!!!!!!!
Beautiful, huge english garden
Christmas decorations everywhere!Munich was so great, Dana and I spent the weekend there, relaxed, ate good food, and saw some pretty cool things.
We took a 6 hour train ride out there, stopped in Stuttgart, and ended up in Germany. The first guy we run in to is probably the strictest man in Germany at the train station. Dana and I needed to get a train ticket so we could get home, so we thought we would do it early, and we run in to this guy, who a supervisor for the Eurail passes, and is one of the most annoying workers in the world. I have not gotten as mad at someone as I did since I have been out here. He basically said that my Eurail pass worthless, because someone else messed up in the Paris station. He forced me to pay a 20 euro fee to get a new copy for my eurail pass, and I was really furious because it was not my mistake, but I couldnt do anything. I was so mad. And he also got mad at Dana for not using a ballpoint pen on hers, and that just was so insane, no one should care about their job that much. But, on to the great weekend. We walked to our hostel, and found out that it used to be an old palace. The rooms were really spacious and comfy and their was internet and a kitchen right across from our room, we were even able to do a beer tasting at the bar! It was so nice trying all the bavarian flavors. The first night there, we walked around the central part of town, saw some of the best street music so far, ate some sandwiches and saw lots of christmas decorations, which put us both in a perfect mood. We spent a couple hours in a starbucks :p found an ice rink and got hot wine and watched people ice skate in this room overlooking the rink. It all worked out really nicely. The second day we walked around the hugee English Garden, and we saw RIVER SURFING. It was unbelievable. There is a really strong current, and somehow, there is a constant wave that is in the river going through the English Garden, and there are about 5 to 6 guys on shortboards and in wetsuits riding this wave, switching off. We watched for about an hour and could of stayed there all day, one of the guys did really cool tricks flipping the board. After that, we went to the Modern Art Museum that had so many pieces. There was an entire exhibition for design with random apple computers through history and chair and car designs, it was nice. There was Picasso, Beuys, Dali, Flavin, Warhol, etc.
The rest of the trip was spent exploring, watching Friends and House, looking in shops, listening to music on the streets, eating the best pretzels ever.
Its the last week of school!!! So much stuff to do this week. Two different photo projects, literature paper, art history paper AND art history test. But I am slowly cracking away at it all, not to worried. We had our last painting class today, and I am really going to miss it. I learned so much, and am excited to paint back at home :)
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