Day 15: Hopfgarten – Munich (Munchen)
Woke up, barely, and boarded the bus for the
Swarovski crystal museum with the Giant hill head thing which
spits water. Not impressed, it seemed a lot smaller in person,
and that thing was suppose to protect lots and lots of jewels?
I think not. Me and Stace missed getting entrance tickets into
the shop (Isn’t that the dumbest thing
ever? I mean, why would you need to get a ticket to buy stuff?)
so we ended up doing the giant maze (in the shape of a hand)
and just relaxing on the jungle gym in the playground. Laying
with my head in Stacey’s lap, on a beautiful day, and just talking,
I’d take it over shopping any day =) After the museum, we had
to stop back at Hopfgarten because Catherine was sick (she would
catch up later by train at the Marianplatz). We then set off
on our short drive to Munich for some sight seeing.
I'm sure there was a lot more to Munich, but all that we were
able to see was the main plaza called Marianplatz. We had McDonalds,
shopped, and saw the Devil's footprint and the Glockenspiel
(WTF?). That was the biggest waste of time, and money, in the
world. Story Time! For those of
you who don't know, the Glockenspiel is basically a giant clock
with bells and whistles. It's got two carousel type things with
characters dancing around, as well as a "special climax"
that Aaron told us we just had to see. "This will define
your trip," and "you're life will never be the same
after this," he told us. Well, at five the first carousel
started up, and the little characters danced, and at five past,
the first stopped and the second started, and finally after
standing there for a good ten minutes waiting the "magical
climax" occurred. I was holding my camera up this whole
time, trying to catch it on video, and so when the climax, or
should I say, anticlimax occured, I was in complete disbelief.
The stupid thing didn't even do anything! I just threw my free
hand (the one without my camera) up only to hear Stacey's stein
that I was holding, wrapped in bubble wrap, clatter as it hit
the ground. I was horrified, everyone was staring at me and
I didn't know what to do or say. I don't know what happened,
one moment I was holding Stace's bag for her, and had run the
handles through the clip on the front of my backpack so I wouldn't
have to carry it, and it was a great idea, that is until I forgot
that I unclipped it and it fell to the floor. I carefully opened
up the bag, and undid the bubblewrap, but not all the way, and
saw that it was still in one piece. To say that I was relieved
was an understatement. Would have sucked so bad if I had broken
the stein that Stace had gotten her dad, heh, really bad first
impression I'd say. "Remember
how I got you that stein in Munich dad? Well here's the idiot
who broke it." So after I give the bag back
to Stace (I didn't want to drop it a second time), she opens
it up, just to check it again, and as soon as she unwraps the
bubblewrap, the whole stein just crumbles to pieces. Someone
should have taken a picture of me then, I damn near died. I
started apologizing profusely, and at the same time, thinking
to myself how big of a dork I am, and how much Stace must hate
me. Stupid Glockenspiel, I blame it all on YOU (and losing my
lucky rubberband)! And so that was my 30 euro Munich mistake,
and now I've got bits and pieces of a beer stein in my bag.
I'm so mad at myself, such a dork. No worries though, I don't
think she hates me...
Tonight we went and had pork knuckles and beer served in 1 litre
steins at the Schorr Keller beer hall. For some odd reason,
Stace and Sally decided to take a cab over instead of taking
the bus with us (I wouldn't blame her for not wanting me around
;) ) and so by the time the coach got there, she was already
half a litre up on me. Rushing to catch up with her, I finished
the first litre in 20 minutes, and had a crazy buzz going even
before finishing half of it. Shit, that stuff's potent, but
it goes down so easy! The second one went down just as easily,
but by then, I was too wasted to notice. A beautiful night outside
on the benches, with beautiful Stacey, and beer? Good times,
if only my head would stop spinning.
I was ready to go home, and go to bed, and was glad to finally
get back on the coach. We had to make a quick stop to pick up
all the people who didn't go to the beer hall with us, as well
as drop of all of those who wanted to experience Munich nightlife,
and guess what? Yep, I got dragged off to join the party. Azza
came along too, so no worries right? WRONG! Two metro stops
away and we were completely lost. After talking with a bunch
of locals, we ended up at a club called Raphaels, five euros
to get in, but Chauntel talked the guy into buy 10 get 8 free.
We got inside, and surprise! The place was completely empty.
Oh well, Contiki's where the party is :) Gathering us all about
the bar, me being already trashed, Chauntel got us all these
vodka shots that came with a little packet of mysterious powder.
With my blurry vision from my drunken state, I couldn't read
what the damn thing said (I realized in
the morning that the reason I couldn't make any of it out was
because it was in German), so I decided to just take
the vodka by itself. I turned around to tell Stace not to do
the powder, but she had already downed it all. Heh, what a girl
to bring home to mom eh? ;) Aaron ended up having 8+ of these
shots, and got totally wasted (funny as hell), while I was trying
to sober up so that I could try to watch over things. Lots of
dancing, and kissing and fun, Stace was totally gone, but I
took care of her =) We were all tired from the previous night,
so by 12 we were all buggered and went outside to figure out
how to call a cab. It cost us 20 euros to get home, and we stumbled
up the stairs... Stacey decided to sleep in our room (rooming
with Steve and Ryan), and in my bed :X That's a first... We
tried sharing a bed, but it's damn near impossible with these
small hostel beds, so as soon as she fell asleep, I slipped
out and slept on the floor to give her space.
Day 15 Photos
Before...
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After! Good as new!
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