We started the day with another German Fruhstuck (breakfast). The kids seem to do better today and knew more what they wanted. I believe they also cleared out more of their meats and cheese plate :).
We dove into Rothenberg after breakfast for a quick souvenir shopping trip and to grab some last minute pictures. Of course, there is always time for a little silliness. I'm sure we were entertaining the locals.
And onto the autobahn we go. Not more than 10 minutes into our trip, the navigation device in the car rerouted us from A7/Ulm to A6/Nurmberg due to an accident somewhere along the route. The trip when pretty smoothly overall with more people on the road than the trip down from Frankfurt. We did see several accidents, most in the other direction, most of which has 5+ miles of backup. We did hit one backup about 25 miles outside of Munich which was a multi-car accident in a construction area, including 1 car that was facing the wrong way. Not sure if it got spun around or if it jumped the rail from the opposite direction.
For lunch we stopped in Greding at a road side McDonalds. Yes yes, it is a good thing to eat at a familiar place every once-in-a-while. Especially for the Noah and Katy, who were very happy to see a menu that made sense to them. I'm actually pretty proud that we are almost a week into the trip before eating at an "american" establishment.
After arriving in Munich, we found a parking spot and wheeled all of our luggage a few block so the apartment. The apartment is awesome, complete with 2 bedrooms, 2 baths and a living area. It is going to make a nice home for the next week. It doesn't hurt that it is about 100 yards from the Löwenbräukeller :-).
The ladies braved a trip to the local supermarket to get food for the next few days. I hear it was quite the adventure as they figured out what everything was giving the German names for everything. Looks like they came back with mostly the right stuff, so I'll mark it a success.
Sara made a great meal for all of us, a great way to break in our apartment. Thanks to the teens for doing the clean-up.
As we were finishing up our dinner, we couldn't help but notice the loud cheering in the streets as the Germany vs Greece Eurocup game was going on. The whole country seemed to be alive with the game. Not to miss an opportunity to experience a real European football game in a real European beer hall, Sara and I made our way down to the Löwenbräukeller to join the celebration. Oh, and what a celebration it was. The place was packed and the crowd was energized. Both the festivity hall and the beer garden were full of people watching the game on 2 big screens that had been put up. A quick flag down of a waitress yielded us 2 half-liters of beer :). And if you watched the game, you know that the second half was quite exciting with 3 Germany goals in a short time. The place was going crazy. It was one of those "wow.. can you believe we are hear doing this at this very moment" kind times.
After the game we made our way back to the apartment to find the teens did a great job getting Noah and Katy to bed.
Tomorrow we will meet up with Uwe and do some touring around Munchen.
-- CsB
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