Munich

Wow!! I have A LOT to update. Lets back up over a week to Sunday, June 21st when we traveled south from Nurnberg to Munich! We arrived at the Hemmingers (our very close family friends) in the afternoon and were welcomed with a delicious cherry cake, coffee, tea and juice for Mia! We love coming here because we always get spoiled when we are here - Daniel jokes that we may never leave or have to make our trips here semi-annual because of the royal treatment we receive (and this is despite four days of NON-STOP rain).

Though the weather report stated non-stop rain throughout Bavaria Monday-Wednesday, we were hoping we would wake up to sun on Monday morning - no such luck. Regardless, we decided to venture out to see Schloss Neuschwanstein (for those of you who don´t know this is the Disneyland Castle). We were not sure we were deaded in the right direction because until we were about 200 feet from the castle we could not see anything ... it was all fogged in!! So, instead of wasting our time hiking up or touring the castle grounds in the rain, we decided on a carriage ride up the hill ... Mia was thrilled! She loves the "Hoseys" (aka Horseys in case you did not figure that out).

Tuesday was not much different as far as weather goes ... so, we decided to head north about an hour to a town called Regensburg. Our friend Moritz took the day off work and he, his brother Tilman (who lives in Regensburg) and Tilman's girlfriend Agnes showed us around and gave us a first class tour of the city. Thanks Mo! We made many pit-stops for beers and coffee during the day when the rain got too bad ... so all in all, the rain did not really affect our day. We had fun regardless!

While we were in Munich, Mia fell head over heels in love with "Amin", who is Moritz's dad. She just thought he hung the moon and would wake up in the morning calling his name. She would grab him by the hand and drag him around the house asking "whas dat?" Pretty darn cute to watch, and I think Armin feels the same way about Mia as she does about him. He kept telling us she was the star of our family (I think he might be right!).

After three days of non-stop rain we were so ready for the next part of our trip - five nights in one of the most amazing spots I have ever been to - Eppan in South Tyrol. Stay tuned for that part of our trip!