Bretzel

Ok, so last night we spent a while with the girls from wisconsin playing cards and eating what the germans think is gelato.

This morning, we had our first actual sleep in day in europe. We slept until 930 and it was great. We cleaned up our stuff and put them in lockers so that the new roomates could move in without a worry. We had fresh pastries for breakfast, as we missed the one in the hostel, and headed to what is called the Residenz. The res. is the old castle of the german nobles. It was expamnded through the years, generally by weak rulers who wanted to put their stamp on historz. Anzwaz, it was pretty neat and huge. Many of the original things were destroyed in WWII, but many were also saved. There were huge halls, beautiful parquette floors. The intricate wood details in the desks were trumped only by the work in shell and stone. Too bad so much money was wasted on such a selfish thing.

We ate lunch at a pub called Weisses Brauhaus.It is reputedly one of the better beer halls in munich, and I have to agree. The prices were good, and after a bowl of potato soup, and a sausage platter split three ways. We were all full, and loving it. The sweet mustard and pretzels provided complemented the meal well.

We will now go back to our hostel to have a small dinner and see if others from our class arrived in the city yet. We have class tommorrow and will meet Astrid at the Glockenspiel, or Rathaus (town hall)tommorrow morning.