Munich

We made it to Munich after sleeping in this morning and a quick 2 hour drive. We spent a few hours this afternoon at the Residenz. A HUGE building that housed many generations of Bavarian royalty. We saw quite a bit of royal treasures including a lot of crowns and jewels. They said that the average tour gets to see about 70 rooms and I'm pretty sure we got close to that number. After about 2 hours of walking around we were totally exhausted. A lot of the rooms were similar to any castle-type place...old furniture, old pictures....but some were quite amazing. There was a room with religious relics that included bones, a wing of Residenz where most of the room was made from stone, a grotto, and several ornate chapels.

After the time in the Residenz we headed to Marienplatz to watch the Glockspiel. It went on for over 5 minutes and I got a video of it. After that we headed to the Hofbrauhaus for dinner. Matthias got a huge mug of beer and we had a variety of wurst and some dessert. Now we're back in the hotel (not a hostel today, it was full) relaxing, doing some laundry, and watching German tv.