Laura, Laura, and I waiting at a bus stop before our tour of Munich...

A rather famous location in Munich called Karlsplatz...all of the really famous places in the city are kind of right next to each other so you can walk between them all...the historic district, the main shopping place, the food market, everything. It's my favorite part of the city!

LoveloveLOVE this picture. Another one of the famous Muenchen Loewen (Munich Lions), this guy is one of two standing guard over a major historic Stadttor (City gate)...the eyes get me every time.

We had kind of bad luck with rain, but it was ok cause this time I was prepared with my umbrella!

The entire group (Deutsche und Amis...Germans and Americans) went on an outing to Schloss Neuschwanstein, Neuschwanstein Castle. If you don't quite recognize that name, it is the castle that Walt Disney modeled his fairytale castle from. Even with the lousy weather, it was still really crazy to see. Inside it was even more dramatic and glamorous because Koenig Ludwig (King Ludwig), the builder and primary inhabitant of the castle, was extremely eccentric and was actually even insane. (No really. Clinically insane.) He had FAR too much money to know what to do with and went all out on the castle...crazy art, huge tapestries, ornate carvings, with jewel tones throughout. Whoa.