Day 17: Munich- Spatzle and Sightseeing

I woke up intending to go to Dachau concentration camp, but as I was getting ready I met a new roommate, Kristie. She'd been spending the week in Munich with a friend, but was at the hostel for her last day in the city. She'd already been to Dachau, so we decided to go see Neuschwanstein castle together. But once we got to the train station we realized that it was a longer trip and a bigger commitment than we'd originally thought, and I had a slight headache from the night before... So we scrapped the plans and came back to the hostel, where I took a little nap and Kristie did some computer work. After an hour or two, we headed out again, this time just to see the city a little bit. Kristie had already done a walking tour earlier in the week so she was full of info about the things we saw, which was nice!

















We stopped for lunch and had spätzle with cheese and onions, which is kind of a German version of macaroni and cheese, but the noodles are much heavier. Pretty good stuff! We were sitting on the patio under a red umbrella, so the photo is a wee bit red tinted.


Then we just did mor sightseeing, sort of wandering around aimlessly, but running into lots of cool stuff along the way!









































Soon we were at the Surfer's Wave, so I took a bunch of pics and showed Kristie where we'd gone down the river the day before. I wanted so much to jump back in again! We walked around the park a little bit, then got the most delicious strawberry gelato that I have ever had. Perrrrfect because it was crazy hot outside.








On our way back to the hostel we went into a really beautiful old church. I'm always surprised at how pretty they are on the inside, and how few people take the time to check them out.














When we got back to the hostel I just hung out in the courtyard for the rest of the night and met some people there. It was nice to just chill out and chat with strangers! Funny story though, in the middle of the night a girl showed up to our room at 230 am and crawled in bed with Kristie. Kristie woke up and was obviously annoyed/confused and pushed the girl out of her bed and yelled at her. The girl kept saying she wanted sex, she just wanted sex, etc. and walking around Iike a creepy but hilarious zombie. She kept trying to crawl in bed with Kristie, then gave up and came over to my bunk, at which point I woke up and kinda jumped and said "oh my God!" cuz I was surprised/scared to see this random person standing over my bed in the middle of the night, but apparently I startled HER so she started screaming bloody murder (all the while not wearing pants). She was pretty drunk (or on drugs or something, who knows) so she was mumbling and I couldn't really tell what she was saying, I thought she was speaking another language or something. Nope, just asking for sex, in English. She went back over to Kristie and kept reaching out to touch her face, and it was kinda funny to watch Kristie bat the girl's hand away for a little while and try to reason with her. But Kristie eventually gave up- she literally opened our front door and pushed her out into the hallway with no key, no wallet, no pants... Then threw her pants in the hallway too. Eventually the girl must've found her way to the front desk and asked for a key because she came back and went to sleep. Weirdest sequence of events ever. Definitely memorable, at least!

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