Science Nerds

Anna and I started the day yesterday with a trip to the Deutsches Museum. This museum is the world'd largest technology and engineering museum and for some reason admission was free for the day. We are obsessed. We saw all the top sights including the musical instruments, power machinery, marine navigation, aviation and space travel, telecommunications, and a special 50s exhibit. Galileo's workshop is located in this museum but of course our luck-it was under restoration. Our favorite room was the Pharmaceuticals exhibit. It was soooo awesome. The best thing to see was the human cell magnified 350,000 times. You could walk inside the cell and see all the different parts. Another lady in the cell laughed at us as we named all the parts and stood in amazement. Thanks to some awesome science teachers, it was by far the best! They also had a Food Technology exhibit. It was so cool! We realized how nerdy we sounded as we walked back to the metro stop. We could not stop talking about THE cell.
After the musesum, we headed to the soccer arena. From the metro map it seems like all you have to do is follow the soccer balls and it will drop you off right at the stadium. We thought we had just enough time to make it to the stadium by 1:00 for the English tour. When the train stopped we were a solid mile from the entrance of the stadium. We booked it over, found the right steps to go up, and then found the ticket man. We had missed the English tour by about 12 minutes. If not for the mile long hike we would have been just on time. Oh well we thought, we can just go on the German tour. This will be interesting. We had lunch at the cafe and then shopped in the fan shop. Since we know nothing about soccer, excuse me-football, we asked the salesmen a few questions. They looked at us like we were crazy. The time came for the German tour. It ended up being the most hilarious tour we have been on. The nice tour guide would give the long history or explanation about something in German and then give us the two minute version in English. It was perfect. We could pretty much figure out the difference between the locker room and the field even with the language barrier. The best part however was a group of tourists also in the group with us. I have no idea where they were from but they took pictures of everything. White walls, check. The bathroom sink, check. The steps, check. They were like a group of ants. Anna and I started laughing and could not stop. Neither could the tour guide. It was hilarious. We learned a little about football and had a great time.
Next we headed to a different beer garden to check it out. It was the Lowenbraukeller and was much smaller than the first two we visited. It was a nice afternoon spot. Then we ate dinner at the Weisses Brauhaus pub. It was great! I had the Wiener Schnitzel and it was fabulous! We went to our favorite beer hall one more time and then headed home. A great day in Munich!
Today we slept late! For the first time in a long time. It was raining outside and we wanted to rest before getting into Brussels to start our class. We ate a nice lunch at a cute little organic lunch spot. Our waiter was from Kansas. Really one of few Americans we have met in Munich. We love not being surrounded by American tourists here. We ended up shopping since it was cold a rainy. I got some jeans, a jacket, and two dresses at H&M. Oh how I love H&M, thank you Laura Hobbs for introducing me to H&M so many years ago! When we walked in we were greeted by a wall of orange and blue clothes. It was like they had made them just for us! We enjoyed a relaxing day. We are about to head out for one last Bavarian meal. I would never have imagined that of all the places we have been over the last few weeks that Munich would be one of my top rated. I told Anna at lunch this morning that of the cities we have been to, I would choose Munich to live in. We love it here and only wish that they spoke Italian rather than German. Italian is just so much more fun! I hope one of my next European adventures will be exploring more of this great country.
We have had so much fun traveling over the last three weeks. Tomorrow we head to Brussels to meet up with the group from Clemson. Our classes will start on Monday. It is going to be nice to have a home base for the next month. We will still be traveling on weekends, but will have the week to rest and oh yeah...learn something too! I know our adventures will continue!