Day Seventeen: 5/9
We got up and stopped at he bakery just ½ a block from the
Pension. We purchased some pastries for
breakfast. They were just ok, but a good snack to keep us from getting too
hungry in the morning. We headed over to the Glockenspiel
on Marienplatz. We sat for
about an hour to await the show. There
were about a dozen chairs that were sitting in the plaza. We scoped two of them out and waited. The show was cool. It was neat to see all the little details that are put into the
show.
After the show we went to the Frauenkirche. This church is
one of the most recognized sights in Munich.
The church’s most unique feature is the twin onion shaped domes on the
top of the clock and bell towers.
We walked over to the Peterskirche, but alas it was closed. This is
Munich’s oldest church. We took a tour of the toy museum. The museum has almost
a complete selection of Barbie Dolls.
It was neat to see some of the Barbies that we didn’t know existed.
Steve liked the astronaut Barbie. In the picture to the right, the old town
hall can be seen. The museum is in the tower on 5 floors.
We stopped into the Herte Gallery to check on
the price of Rosenthal Crystal. It
turns out they still carry our pattern; in fact it is a studio line. So much for Replacements, Inc.; they told me no one
else carried it.
We then walked to the Alter Bierche Gartens,
we actually sat down to eat lunch, but Angie didn’t like anything on the menu,
so we got up and left.
We took the U-Bahn to Schloss
Nymphenburg, but still had to walk about 20 minutes from the station. We toured the castle as well as the carriage
house. This has all the carriages of
Crazy Ludwig. The castle also had a fabulous collection of porcelain in their
museum.
We walked around the grounds and toured the hunting lodge. This lodge
is called Amalienburg. It is a Rococo
style lodge. It was built in 1740 and
is considered a perfect example of court Rococo architecture. The most famous thing here is its circular
hall of mirrors.
We kept walking the grounds and reached Badenburg. This building had a
really cool sunken bath. It took us
about five minutes to figure out how they got into the water. We finally saw the stairs that were hidden
that you walked down to descend into the bath.
One of the really cool things in the museum
was this statue of an eagle. The eagle’s eyes were so life like.
We went and sat on a bench by water that
makes up the lake at Nymphenburg. This was very peaceful until two couples came
by and sat on the bench with us. They were yapping away destroying the mood.
And then another couple came and sat down. We were finishing up our sandwich
and bread and decided to take some of the crusty bread and feed the ducks. They were all more than happy to come eat
from us.
We walked back to the castle entrance. It was close to their closing time, so most
of the people there were heading out of the castle. We took the bus back to the
U-Bahn rather than walk. We then took the U-Bahn to Marienplatz. We decided to eat
at the touristy place. We had dinner at
the Ratskeller. The food
was very tasty. I had my first beer in
a while, seems like the last beer I had was well over a year ago.
After dinner, we walked off some of the
calories. The tour book had a walking
tour. During our tour we found a Penny machine. If you don’t know what this is, Penny machines are devices that
take your 
penny and squash them into an oblong shape. They also put some sort of an impression in the copper. This impression is usually a picture of the
site that owns the penny machine. We
collect pennies from all of the places we go.
We have quite a collection growing. On the walking tour we saw a pretty
cool window display shown to the left.
We didn’t know what else to do that evening,
so we took the bus back to the Pension.