Day #211

Saturday was all about the brunch. So much brunch. Brunch for miles and miles. I think the song 500 Miles was written about brunch. I would walk 500 miles and I would walk 500 more just to be the person who walked 1000 miles to have brunch. Those are the lyrics, right?

Just take a gander at this sweet piece of edible artistry:

Yeah. That's what I thought. We were München on heaven. (GET IT LIKE MUNCHING)

It was a little Italian place and the shop owner told us about how he grew up near Venice and lived in Cleveland Ohio for a year and just came to Germany last year. On the plate, you'll notice four types of meat, two of which are sausages and two of which are ham, four types of cheese, butter, homemade honey and jam, freshly squeezed orange juice, scrambled eggs with cheese, and a garden salad with carrots, cherry tomatoes, and balsamic dressing. Not pictured: the basket of fresh bread. In the very appropriately themed words of Lizzie McGuire, "hey now, hey now, this is what dreams are made of." (Get it? Because in the movie she goes to Italy and sings this song and this was an Italian bakery? I figured I'd include this tidbit of clarity on the slight off chance that someone reading this is unfamiliar with the Lizzie McGuire Movie and all of its nuances.)

Our other less important adventures (though still extremely important; it's just that brunch is always the most inportant, see?) included Marienplatz, which is in the altstadt (literally "old town" in german), where there was, of course, incredible architecture, including this cathedral:

And the Deutsche Museum, which is a science museum that has literally everything- from glass blowing to motor-powered Lego cities to old fashioned musical instruments to creepy 3D pictures to pendulums to cross sections of airplanes to engines to hominid caves to paper making... We're talking everything. 

After lots of walking (both around the altstadt and the museum and Munich in general), we headed back to our hostel before meeting up with our friends again. I sampled some kaese spaetzle (these things that are like teeny tiny dumplings and it usually has cheese and this particular one had a kind of hot sauce and veggies and caramelized onions so UM YUM FOREVER), plus some sausage in a baguette. Life was good. 

I headed back relatively early so that I could wake up early to see MY OLD CHOIR PERFORM ON SUNDAY!!! 

~*~[stay tuned for next time]~*~