So we got out a little bit once the weather cleared up this weekend. We called our friend Christian Konz (as seen in the picture) on Sunday morning so see if he was in Munich. He travels so much these days that he’s hard to find. Luckily, he just got back for a trip to Berkeley to see Debra, and he had a few hours to spend with us. We went to a cute Bavarian restaurant in the tourist area. The waiter followed a wonderful Munich custom of being very rude if a customer did not order ‘correctly.’ I asked for french fries and, apparently, you are only allowed to have french fries as a side dish to something else. Instead, I was ‘allowed’ to eat french fries the we ordered as a side to Matthias’s Tirole Knudel mit Eir, Speck und Bratensose (AKA deep fried heart-attack-on-a-plate) which means boiled bread, fried egg and fried bacon all mixed up together with gravy. The fries were good.

We forgot to take any pictures with Christian in the serval nice places we walked, but I did get the one in front of the metro station before he headed out.

Afterward, Matthias and I came across a huge foot-ball (AKA soccer ball) on a plaza. It is some kind of promotion for the world cup hosted in Germany this year. The structure was a bit precarious, but what made me nervous was the ‘escape slide’ coming out of the back. In case of emergency, the people in the ball evacuate down the slide! The slide is the squiggly thing over Matthias’s head in the photo.Today was a great day as well. The sun actually came out today, and it was a bit warmer. May 1st is labor day here, so we walked through the town expecting to see a celebration or demonstration or something. We did find a conveyer belt where they make German babies!!

We wandered over to one of the parks and took in the view from a small tower in the medieval structure there.

The hanging thing is a hanging in the tower. It somehow reminds me of the “Blair Witch Project.” The park is a fabulous little place with rose gardens and little areas to lay in the grass or play frisbee and badminton (which is what we did). We ended out little walk-about with a stop in the beer garden, and soon we are heading to the gym and the sauna. Not a bad way to spend a couple of days!