Europe Days 11-13
Jun 18th, 2011 by kit
Europe Days 11-13
Well at this point it feels like we are starting to live here. We have frequent visits to the Tangalman grocery store downstairs from my aunts apartment. We go every few days to recycle and since we only brought four days of clothes we have done a ton of laundry. Every morning the 17 family members left are in a routine to meet for breakfast before setting out on our daily adventures. On Monday we packed four cars and headed south for the Partnachklamm http://www.partnachklamm.eu/. This is something I remember from my first visit to Germany in 1987. This hike along the inside of a canyon is unforgettable with a 1200ft climb and B walked the whole way. At the top was a biergarten where I of course needed a beer and then we headed back through the canyon just because I couldn’t get enough of it.
Tuesday we headed south again to Berchtesgaden where we took a tour of an underground working salt mine. http://www.salzzeitreise.de/en/global/salzbergwerkberchtesgaden0.html
During the tour we also experienced two wooden miner slides. I had to hold both kids for the first one and surly made my heart jump.
Yesterday we split up and Drew headed for a factory of BMW and I hung out with the kids. we hit up a small park here in Haar and then headed down town. My sister, mom and aunt took Nallia to the art museum, Bryson and I checked out a toy store and ate brats. We all met up at 3pm and made a stop for coffee and bookstore and then saw Munich’s Glockenspiel go off at 5pm. This is a cute show until you realize this clock tower was built in 1907, then I start to wonder how they made all those character with out modern day technology. Amazing to consider this marionettes are older than almost all the things we see day to day at home.
For dinner we drove out to the countryside to Biergarten-Falkenberg where they had a great playground and my cousin and I both had stechalfisch. It was simply a mackerel on a stick that is grilled whole but the highlight of the evening was when half the family played on the teeter-totter!
