Waking up at 3:00 am was absolutely miserable but I was comforted when I heard the mass of people yelling and singing for die Tage des Vereinigung. As I walked to the U-bahn station and commuted for an hour I spent most the time with really drunk people or couples making out. I thought I would escape this in Munich. I was wrong.
I met up McKinley and Kayla only a handful of hours later at Leuchtenbergring in Munich and we went to the hotel to check in and drop off our stuff. The hotel staff asked us a couple of times if all three of us were going to be staying in the room. No we said. They thought we meant no only 2. We actually meant no, only 6.
Seeing as it was rainy and cold we only though it would be appropriate to go to Dachau. And after having visited the concentration camp two other times, I doubled as a tour guide for the day. As much as I didn’t go back to the camp it was actually really cool to see it after having been living and studying in Berlin. I am much more interested now in how National Socialism began and where the Germans stand with it now and being at a concentration camp is a great place to gather that information.
After Dachau we headed back to Marianplatz and ran into Paige Harryman. In the middle of Munich! It was so so so random! But anyways, we headed to a fake version of Oktoberfest (in an effort to ease ourselves in) and after a pretzel and beer, I stole my first stein and we peaced!
We met back up with Ana and then went for a leisurely walk in the other direction from Marianplatz and duh, got another pretzel! And we met up Ryan and Katie! We kept walking and went and saw a cool church, a plaza where Hitler spoke, and the beginning of the English Gardens. We then wondered and found a really cool and cheap restarant. When we finally made it back to the hotel we made a stealthy switch of rooms (so that we could be in the building without the concierges’ desk) and then hit the sack knowing that Saturday was going to be a long day!
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