We were greeted at the airport by our gracious host and official Munich tour guide, my mom's cousin Siegfried! We hoped onto the S-Bahn and after 35 minutes we arrived in Vierkirchen! We were shown to our wodnerful living quaters for the next four days and we immediately felt at home! At 6:30 we sat down to family dinner with the whole family and enjoyed homemade weiner schitzel! We enjoyed each others company for a few hours, Ty and I tried a variety of german beers! We slept wonderfully in Sandra's apartment, a big step up from our hostel life!
The next day Ty and I took the S-Bahn into Munich to explore the city! We did a walking tour first thing in the morning and it was great. It showed as us all the major sites and allowed us to get our barrings in the city! We then went to The Hofbräuhaus to enjoy some german beer! The place was pretty busy for 2pm in the afternoon, Ty enjoyed a 1L of Hofbrau Orginal and I had 0.5L and Ty even managed to finish his before me! We then climbed the stairs of St.Peter's Cathedral to take in the panoramic view of Munich. We have both fallen very much in love with this city and agreed that if we could see our selves living anywhere in Europe this far it would definately be Munich.
We headed back to Vierkirchen for 7pm as we had dinner reservations for a greek resturant in town with the family. The meal was amazing and the company even better, I also discovered my new favourite drink, radler, which is beer mixed with lemonade! Delcious! After dinner Martin and Maria (Siegfried's son and his girlfriend) took us to another place in town to have some drinks, we met some of thier friends and we had a really nice time!
Saturday morning we woke up early and headed to Dachau to have breakfast with Annette and her finace Andreas and his son Julius. It was delicious, Ty and I can't express enough how wonderful it was eating fresh food and homecooked meals! We then headed to Concentration Camp which was very sad, but a reminder of how blessed we are and we all agreed we could not comprehend the pain it's prisionors must have felt.
We then walked through the city of Dachau and saw it's castle and had a cup of coffee in a local coffee shop! After coffee we drove out to Kleinschwabhausen, where my grandfather and his brothers spent some time as young men and Langenpettenbach to see my mom's cousin and aunt and we finished our day by visiting Hilde and see her home.
Saturday night Martin, Maria, Ty and I went to see FC Bayern Munich!! It was amazing, the stadium was like nothing I have ever seen before in my life- 66,000 fans cheering! What an atmosphere, this was definately a highlight of the trip!
Sunday morning we had breakfast and then travelled to Fussen, to see Neuschwastien Castle! Since my pictures will do this castle no justice, I bought a poster to show everyone just how incredible it was! The drive home, we took a scenic route and drove through the apls, it was so beautful. We came home to have one last meal as a family and I began to feel sad at the thought of saying goodbye to everyone. We had homemade goulash, and then we chatted, I got to see lots of old photos and hear old stories and try some more varieties of german beer. It was priceless for me to learn so much about where I come from and I feel so lucky to have such an amazing family!
We cannot thank all of you enough for your genorousity, you went out of your way to see that we had the most amazing time!! We hope we get the chance to come back to Munich sooner than later, or perhaps get a chance to show you the same kindness if you were to come see us in Canada!
xoxo Jenna and Ty
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