Second Free Weekend: june 1-3, 2012
Kelly and Courtney took off to Munich, Germany.
Known for their deep historical culture, large beer gardens, and Bolvarian food, Munich is located in southern Germany. Even though it was a bit difficult to travel there because the airport is an hour drive from the city, the atmosphere, scenery, and people made the travel all worth while! Everything is prettier in Germany (to us anyway)...the people, buildings, cars, city center, even the dogs!
After a late arrival and eating a traditional Bolvarian meal and drinking a mas (a liter of German beer) at the world famous Hofbrauhaus, it was time to rest for a long day of touring and exploring ahead of us. Saturday's agenda was filled by touring the ----Castle, exploring the high end shops, touring the city center building - the only building in Munich to survive WWII.
Then making the travel to the end of the city to have some fun at the world's largest beer garden, capacity of 8,000 people!
Danielle, Chuck, and Forrest went to Amsterdam for the weekend!
We had a lot of fun exploring the city, experiencing some of the cafe's and the red light district. The weather was a little rainy the first day but we still managed to have a fun and relaxing day. Friday we did a little more exploring and participated in a pub craw around the red light district. It was interesting and a little unsettling walking through the red light district and seeing all of the girls in the windows since we've never seen anything like it before. Saturday some of us went on a canal tour around the city and learned many interesting things, including the fact that the reason they have hooks on their gables is to enable residents to pull large, bulky objects up and into a window at the proper floor since their apartments are often too narrow to move stuff in the normal way.
Known for their deep historical culture, large beer gardens, and Bolvarian food, Munich is located in southern Germany. Even though it was a bit difficult to travel there because the airport is an hour drive from the city, the atmosphere, scenery, and people made the travel all worth while! Everything is prettier in Germany (to us anyway)...the people, buildings, cars, city center, even the dogs!
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After a late arrival and eating a traditional Bolvarian meal and drinking a mas (a liter of German beer) at the world famous Hofbrauhaus, it was time to rest for a long day of touring and exploring ahead of us. Saturday's agenda was filled by touring the ----Castle, exploring the high end shops, touring the city center building - the only building in Munich to survive WWII.
Then making the travel to the end of the city to have some fun at the world's largest beer garden, capacity of 8,000 people!
Danielle, Chuck, and Forrest went to Amsterdam for the weekend!
Later in the afternoon some of us went to the Van Gogh Museum, which contains the largest collection of Van Gogh's painting in the world. We had a fun time in amsterdam for the weekend, we just would have liked it if the weather had been a little nicer for some of the days.
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