In Germany when you make a toast you don’t say cheers, but rather prost! This is done by toasting glasses logo to logo, eye to eye. Tonight at the Chinesischer Turm Biergarten, we toasted one last time during our final group dinner of the trip. It doesn’t seem real that two weeks here has past. The time has flown by. After many, many rainy days, today’s weather was amazing with beautiful sun shine. We finished up some lose ends of our project and then went shopping for the last minute souvenirs.
For lunch, it was good ‘ole American food at Hard Rock Café. You may laugh, but sometimes you just want some food you are accustomed to and at Hard Rock there are free refills. I never realized how great that was until I started paying 3 euro for a coke, no refills. Dad even found some splenda, something that is really hard to come by here. I wanted to climb the roof of one of the Olympic park buildings and rushed to get out there only to find out that they weren’t offering it today because of a concert tomorrow night. This really ticked me off because I have e-mailed multiple times and even tried to buy a ticket Wednesday and the women said it would be no problem to get my ticket today for the tour!!!
Before we met at the biergarten, dad and I climbed 94 steps to an elevator that took us up in a church tower with some great views of the city. Next it was gelato before getting on the subway to meet the group. It is hard to explain the enormousness of a beirgarten. The one we ate at tonight is the second largest in the world and it is 3 times the size of Central Park. Sort of in the center is the food house and beer and around it are huge grassy areas where people lay out and have picnics. One of the rivers also runs throughout the park. Clothes are optional in some parts and there is always tons of people biking, running and just hanging around.
Everyone is now packing and trying to figure out how they are going to get the beer steins home in one piece. It is sad to leave everyone and especially all the friends we have made at the hotel. It is an earlier morning tomorrow as we depart for Prague, so it’s off to bed.
For lunch, it was good ‘ole American food at Hard Rock Café. You may laugh, but sometimes you just want some food you are accustomed to and at Hard Rock there are free refills. I never realized how great that was until I started paying 3 euro for a coke, no refills. Dad even found some splenda, something that is really hard to come by here. I wanted to climb the roof of one of the Olympic park buildings and rushed to get out there only to find out that they weren’t offering it today because of a concert tomorrow night. This really ticked me off because I have e-mailed multiple times and even tried to buy a ticket Wednesday and the women said it would be no problem to get my ticket today for the tour!!!
Before we met at the biergarten, dad and I climbed 94 steps to an elevator that took us up in a church tower with some great views of the city. Next it was gelato before getting on the subway to meet the group. It is hard to explain the enormousness of a beirgarten. The one we ate at tonight is the second largest in the world and it is 3 times the size of Central Park. Sort of in the center is the food house and beer and around it are huge grassy areas where people lay out and have picnics. One of the rivers also runs throughout the park. Clothes are optional in some parts and there is always tons of people biking, running and just hanging around.
Everyone is now packing and trying to figure out how they are going to get the beer steins home in one piece. It is sad to leave everyone and especially all the friends we have made at the hotel. It is an earlier morning tomorrow as we depart for Prague, so it’s off to bed.
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