Beer and pretzels

Since I have a little bit of time before going to a bbq for Melanie's friend Kendra's 21st birthday party, I will try to update this and appease the masses (aka Sarah and Peter).

So I think I left off last time before talking about yesterday, my first full day in Munich (Thursday). We ended up sleeping until around 11:30, since I was quite exhausted from my trip the day before. We woke up and had museli (with chocolate...yum) and yogurt for breakfast before heading out into Munich again to finish the churches and gardens tour. After taking the U-bahn into the downtown area (I'm probably wrong about this, but the more city part of the city, I guess), we stopped at a discount bakery and bought a pretzel, a pretzel roll, a chocolate croissant, and a pastry with something called johannesbeer (some sort of berry that Mel is not sure has an English translation), the latter which we ate right away, and saved the rest for later. We wandered around for a bit stopping at the last three churches on her "tour" and shopping, mostly at H&M, where we found some fabulous bargains as usual, mostly involving fun colored eyeshadow on sale for one Euro. The churches are all gorgeous, and I will post pictures later (either on facebook or a pictures site...and some here, but not until I get to London and have my own computer). In two of the three...or maybe all three, I forget exactly...there were people playing the organs in preparation for a bunch of organ concerts which apparently were taking place today. They sounded wonderful, of course, and I thought of Alec, because I'm sure they sounded much better than the Wurlitzer that is still in our garage. In one of the churches the bones of the patron saint of single women were on display, all jeweled and dressed in a little box. It was very strange, but interesting.

After going to the big outdoor market in the city (I'm forgetting the name and Melanie is in the bathroom so hopefully I'll remember to write it down later) and purchasing some honey wine to try later, we headed off for the beer garden in the middle of the Englischer gardens in the city (which I also don't remember the name of, but it's something about a Chinese Tower, in German). We had beer (helles, or light beer) and ate our pretzel and pretzel roll and chatted for a long time, since the weather was close to perfect under the trees.

We came back to StuSta (the dorm area) around 7pm and checked e-mail, etc until Mel's friend Jessica made us a tasty dinner of pork roast and potatoes a little later. We basically hung out for the rest of the night talking with various people, and I got to try Melanie's favorite German beer, Augustiner helles. It was a nice night but we stayed up very very very late (because of my jetlag and Melanie's sleeping habits) and got up around 1pm today...woops. Tomorrow we'll set an alarm.

Anyway, I'll do today tomorrow I suppose, since we're off to the bbq (can you tell I've been eating a lot, and well, here?) Hope everyone is well!