Munich!

sooo a bit delayed but I have gotten caught up in some random things this week, but more on that later. Munich! It was supposed to be Berlin but hey whats a euro trip without some random adventure and homelessness! We got into the Paris train station a bit after dinner time so we were tired hungry and a bit irritable already. We finally figured out where the ticket booth was just to learn that the night train(we had planned on booking it in spain but bc of our troubles we didn't end up doing that) was full. As were the trains to Berlin for the next 3 days or so because it was easter weekend. Sooooo, bummed we got out of line and sat down opened up the map and tried to find a new place. We settled on Munich bc we still wanted to see Germany. So we asked about a night train there but again were told that it was booked. But there was one the next night so we jumped at that one and booked it. However that left us stranded in Paris with no where to stay. We walked outside and found a McDonalds, which normally I would turn my nose up at but it was familiar and there and I was starving, so we went in. It was the first fast food I had had in over 4 months! needless to say not all that amazing lol. We decided to save money and sleep in the train station, which wasnt thrilling but it seemed decent. But then around 1am we learned that it closed lol. sooo out on the streets at 1am we went to the first hotel we could find booked their only room(two twin beds for 3 ppl...we pushed the beds together and i slept on the crack oh boy!) and slept there till check out the next day lol. Then we spent our day in Paris at Notre Dame by our fav crepe station of course! and after about 4 hours there we moved to the train station to sit for 4 more glorious hours on a tile floor haha.

Finally on the train we found out Suzanne and Allisons good friend was in the cabin right next to us! go figure so we spent most our trip in Munich with Jessica and Amber. Sleeping on a night train in a chair is about as comfortable as sleeping on an airplane with bad turbulents. but i was excited to be in germany so all of that was forgotten! We bought easter candy in the train station to celebrate easter lol. Then we took an amazing walking tour of the city. The same company was putting on a pub crawl that night so we decided to do that as well after going to the hostel to shower and change. The pubcrawl was soooo much fun. I gave most of my drinks away since I'm not a beer fan. But I did split a stein with allison just to say ive done it lol. we went to Hofbrauhaus as well as 2 beer gardens and a hostel bar.

The next day we went to see Neuschwanstein castle. Which is by far my fav castle in all of europe. I saw it when i was younger but didn't remember much of it so I didn't mind seeing it again. We spent the whole day out there. I got sweet bavarian snow balls and they were soooooo good! Even tho i dropped the last few on the ground :( and allison yelled "oh no she dropped her balls!" and everyone turned and looked at us lol good times. then we took it easy this night since it had been a long day.

day three was spent at the dauchau(sp?) concentration camp. I won't go into details but it was very depressing yet informative. There was one girl that was driving us crazy she took pics of everything and i do mean everything. It just felt wrong somehow. but that was a fun day too!

that concluded our trip to munich. I think it was better than Berlin even could have been. Our weather was perfect and everything we saw was great!

Pics are up already on photobucket under Munich, Germany.

More on Italy later!

incase you are still pondering what it is that has kept me so preoccupied it would be my crazy nutrition interest! I found a site called spark people and its amazing! I can put in everything I eat and all my exercises and it runs tons of charts, graphs etc and makes u really realize how you are eating! Also it tracks my work outs and has tonnnnnnnnns of articles to read and I promise I have read almost all of them haha. and also the blogs i keep on keep me busy!

I am making these when i get home! all who are around are going to be recruited to try them! :) http://www.loveandoliveoil.com/2009/01/strawberry-lemonade-cupcakes.html