Munich

When we got to Munich we ended up just getting a taxi to take us straight to our hotel so we wouldn’t have to figure out public transportation with all of our luggage because we officially done in Bonn and starting on our two and a half weeks of living in hotels. Once we got to our hotel, we all agreed to have a nap time. It was glorious and we definitely needed it. We were a bit delirious which was shown by our random, uncontrollable laughing over seemingly nothing during the taxi ride. Our driver probably thought we were completely insane.
Once we all finally woke up, we walked to this really great Italian place that was pretty close to our hotel. Then we just went back to the hotel, relaxed and had a bit of a movie night. We watched The Proposal and part of Killers before we completely crashed out. Our hotel is really nice. We each have our own blanket and two pillow each and the beds are so comfy. I didn’t think I’d ever be so excited over a Holiday Inn.
We didn’t really do a whole lot on Saturday. Once we finally got up and going we went and ate breakfast/lunch. I split a pizza with Heather and had a beer and a choco-Bailey’s crepe. Absolutely delicious. Then we sort of wandered around a bit trying to figure out what we wanted to do. We ended up going to the zoo again even though we had gone to the zoo in Cologne a couple days before. We were a group of mostly pre-vet students so we used that as our excuse to justify going to another zoo and Matt didn’t really offer much objection.

The Munich zoo was pretty awesome. It was really pretty and natural looking. It made it really seem like the animals were in something close to their natural environments instead of an enclosure. We all had a lot of fun just wandering around. The only bad part was that my camera died so I only got a few pictures. We saw some “tarpans” though. That was pretty awesome even though they’re extinct and what we saw are just horses bred to look like them.

Then we went and met up with some other people at the Hofbrauhous for dinner before wandering around a bit and looking at whatever souvenir shops weren’t already closed. We ended up going back to the hotel relatively early and made another attempt at watching Killers all the way through. We failed.
On Sunday, we slept in again before going to eat breakfast/lunch at the Hard Rock Cafe. We had planned on trying to do some more souvenir shopping but virtually everything was closed so we ended up walking around at the English Gardens. The walking wasn’t exactly fun but it was really pretty and we found this sort of outdoor beer garden in the middle of it. I had a Raddler (beer lemonade) that was quite good.
Then we went back to the hotel and used the computers and workout room for a bit. Then we got yelled at for trying to wear swim suits into the sauna. Apparently the rules say you’re supposed to go in naked but that wasn’t going to happen. Then we finally finished watching Killers. It only took us three nights.
Then we got up Monday and made it to the train station and on our way to Vienna for the week. There was so much to do in Munich that we didn’t do but I’m still glad that we had a more relaxing weekend. It was much more enjoyable than running around everywhere and doing 50 million different things everyday.