Quote 1: "Germans always sound angry." --M1
Quote 2: "I've never had this many angry Germans yelling at me in one day before." SC
June 14 -- When you have over 100 cousins, you never know when or where in the world you will run into one of them. We walked down to the Town Center and did a walking tour using an audio guide which we had downloaded. It took us past the old and new town halls and into several churches. We were also at the Glockenspiel at noon to listen to the chimes and watch the wedding re-enactment by the figurines on the clock. Just before the clocks started chiming the noon hour, I looked around at the crowds of people and saw my cousin and her husband standing there looking up at the clock. I had known that she was going to be in Munich the same time as I, but we hadn't made any arrangements to meet up. The odds of seeing each other in a city of 1.5 million people were pretty slim, so it was pretty exciting. We ate at the most famous beer hall in the world, the Hofbrau, for lunch. It was too touristy and over the top in my opinion.
June 15 -- We rented bikes today to ride through the English Gardens and to do whatever other sight seeing we opted to do. The bike rental place was the first time we had someone yelling at us as we tried to figure out what sizes the kids needed and took longer than they wanted us to. We took off on our Townies around 11. The gardens are beautiful and very big. We learned that it was a national holiday today for Corpus Cristi, which explained the empty roads this morning and the thousands (no exaggeration) of people at the park this afternoon. We rode in the nice shady trees, following a creek most of the way. We stopped for lunch at a self-serve beer garden. This was the 2nd place we had lots of Germans yelling at us as we tried to figure out how to order and paid lots of money for brats and potatoes. After lunch, we proceeded to ride through city streets to the BMW World, but before we got there, one of the kids' bikes got a flat tire. We went into the BMW center to see if we could find a phone to use. The lady at the counter was really nice and even looked up the number for us. But when we called, the rental company said we would have to take a subway back to the rental place and get a different bike. But they said they would only reimburse us for one person's subway ride. Well, we couldn't exactly send a kid by herself, so we were trying to figure out if I should go or what. Then, the lady at the counter told us that her husband had a slime kit and would run over from their house and let us use it. So we waited for him, and then he helped us get the tire back to working (which included him running back to his house to get a pump and riding his bike back to the center with the pump in his backpack).
He would have helped to give us a better perspective of German people, except he wasn't German; he was Canadian.
We walked around in the BMW center for a while, mostly just to make our husbands jealous. Then, we rode back to the gardens in order to see the surfers in the river and to spend a little time in the creek. The garden was full of people, most quite drunk, though thankfully mostly clothed, and we had to swerve around many people, where we got yelled at by many people for who knows what reason. We got back to the rental place right before closing time, and we explained that we didn't think it was right that they expected us to figure out how to take care of the flat ourselves in a city where we don't know the subway system. He had no sympathy and said he didn't understand why we would say that. We finally just had to leave.
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