June 10, 2012

Rise and shine, we woke up on the train to the Spanish/German lady giving us breakfast.  I had, probably, the best chocolate chip muffin that I have ever put in my mouth.  There was this other thing with breakfast that I didn’t touch after seeing Brady gag after trying it; it was some kind of meat patty in a wrapper.  I saw it as German spam, so I decided not to try it.  We arrived here in Munich at 7.10 AM and it was raining.  Before we had the chance to walk through the rain, we were stopped by two guys, who I thought, were street sellers/merchants who wanted some money.  I was at the atm when they came up to the group so when I was done I started walking away from them and one flagged me down.  They were undercover German police.  We were taken into a police interrogation room and all of our bags, all 16 bags, were searched thoroughly.  Apparently they are ‘required’ to sit there all day and check at least 2-3 groups coming from Amsterdam each day.  I guess it makes sense, just wish it wasn’t us that had to get searched, it took about an hour.  What was thought to be a five minute walk turned into a core soaking 45 minute walk. We finally got to the Leonardo Hotel at around 9.30 and had the rest of the day until 5.30 off until we had to meet up with the group.  Today I caught on up all of my blogs for the last 5 days and tried to consolidate some pictures from the weekend.  When I say caught up on my blogs I mean I have them all typed up but I don’t have internet to upload them.  I finished that and Joel and I decided to do laundry, seeing as we had no more clean clothes.  We started the washing machine at about 4.00 thinking that an hour and a half would be plenty of time to get it done.  It turns out the washing machine takes an hour and the dryer took an hour, and they still were not dry.  Needless to say we got left by the group and they went to the best brewery in Munich… without us.  It’s ok though we would get another chance later in the week.  We finished up with laundry and went and met them at the Haufbrau House (which is the brewery) and walked around town a little bit.  I came back and hopped in the hotel sauna, it was the first one I have seen over here and it felt great.  I called it a night after that and hit the sack.

 

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