Last FULL Day in Munich...

So today was the last full day in Munich. We started out this morning by eating breakfast down in the dining area. They have HUGE breakfast buffets and the food is DELICIOUS! I had eggs, yogurt, some kind of oatmeal-cereal, toast, and fruit. I was definitely full after that. We attempted at asking the woman at the front desk if she knew how to get from Hauptbahnhof (central train station in front of the hotel) to the English Gardens, but she made it very confusing when trying to talk to us in English. We purchased our train ticket and it was only 9 euros for two people and the train pass was valid for 24 hours. We arrived near the English Gardens and walked for about 45 minutes in an attempt to actually find the gardens. I pulled out my handy dandy "German At a Glance Book" (thanks Tanya!!!!) and learned how to ask where the English Gardens were (Wo ist die Englisch Garten?). The lady I asked ended up answering me in English! After all of that hard work! Jeeesh!

So we finally arrived at the Englisch Garten and it was beautiful! There were not any actual "Gardens", but it was a HUGE park with all of these grass fields where people were lying on the grass catching a tan, dogs were running wild, and there were people playing accordians at several spots. We came across the Bier Garten and I ordered some kind of German sausage with sauerkraut as a side. I also grabbed a bier, it was called "Franziskaner Weissbier", which was pretty good. It began to rain pretty hard while we were eating, so we had to take cover under all of the trees. Once the rain passed over, we headed back towards the train station ISARTOR. Isartor then went to Marianplatz and then finally to Hauptbahnhof.

We bought our tickets for the trip from Munich to Zurich and will be leaving at 12:04pm. We went to our hotel room and rested for about an hour and worked on the internet and took off once again. We rode the train to Marianplatz and saw the Glockenspiel (giant clock where little wooden men dance around when the bells go off). It was actually under refurbishment and is getting ready for a 800th anniversary celebration or something of that nature. We walked near the museum and near a cool fountain. On the way back we came across a group of guys that were jumping off of the bridge and into the water below. For dinner, we found a chinese restaurant that had a large selection of food that was VERY good.

So we came out of the restaurant and couldn't find our way to Marianplatz. We walked in the opposite direction of the train station, but we ended up seeing a whole new area of Munich. There was a pianist that EXTREMELY good and was playing many classical pieces and Flight of The Bumblebee. This guy was so fast, I couldn't keep track of where his fingers were as he was playing! We finally found our way back to the Marianplatz platform and made our way back safely. Another day survived!! Woohooo! I have posted some pictures from today. Talk to everyone later!! You guys better keep up reading, you are way behind. I have already wrote 3 new posts.

-Dan and Andrea