Another example of art-that-comes-out-of-the-wall...

Britt, Laura, Laura, and I playing "The Ha Game." If you've never heard of it, ask a twelve year old girl :-)

This is my "OH MY GOD I'M IN GERMANY!" face. I had just spent approximately 20 hours in transit and had finally made it through the final gate, with Kathrin and her dad waiting for me.

Wow, talk about beautiful sunsets. This was taken at Bugasee, a little man-made lake in Haar. It's pretty small, but totally perfect to spend an afternoon laying around in the sun and swimming. The lake was created a few years ago because Munich hosted a really famous garden show (wow! that rhymed!) and now it is maintained by the city so the people who live in Haar can enjoy it.

This is something I actually find REALLY cool...it's a monument located right outside Ludwig Maximillian's University, where die Geschwister Scholl (the Scholl siblings) attended. The Scholl siblings were two of the very few students, as well as some of the youngest, who decided to take a stand against Hitler and the Nazi regime. What they did in order to fight was begin what came to be known as Die Weise Rose, or, The White Rose, in English. Members wrote anti-Hitler pamphlets and passed them out all over the city. When the Gestappo finally caught onto the Scholls, both were tried and charged to be executed by guillotine. Hans Scholl was executed before his sister, Sophie, but at the last minute before her execution, Sophie Scholl gathered as many pamphlets as she could and threw them all over the square in front of the university in the hopes that people would pick them up and see the truth. How cool is that??!