Munich

So the first thing we see as we walk is a poster for Oktoberfest;  then we walk into an inviting, very dark store (later find out it is Aberchrombie & Fitch) where Bill got to admire the painted wall murals….Then there were the numerous “Schmuck Stores…”; beautiful old building in the center plaza; an interesting men’s room that had lit up red hearts above the urinal, with a tweeting bird / mooing cows soundtrack playing in the background…(it really did seem to soothe the prostrate for the processes at hand);  Nasty sculpture of a guy getting a foot to his groin; an elaborate GOLD HORSE DRAWN SLED (naked woman front) used by royalty back in the day; Oktoberfest with shots of inside and outside the Beer Tents (occupancy…. 10,000 people!!!!!! ONE TENT, of 14 total);  a typical server carrying 8 HUGE Beers; a delicacy of BBQ Rainbow Trout Fish on a stick (YUM!!!) ;  one of the popular amusement park rides at the fest featured this large mural of a scruffy looking guy brandishing double guns of middle fingers;  a VERY common site of “Heart Cookies” with German sayings (some people were walking around with cookies nearly 2 feet across in size, hanging from their necks!); a pic of the site of the 1972 Munich Olympics with the futuristic canopies….. Ilea gets greeted by a German garden Elf;  AND LASTLY… along the Romantic Road trip on the drive to Frankfurt, we stopped to see the city of Rothenburg.  This is said to be the Quaintest town in all of Germany.  In the picture, you can see a WALL …… one that actually surrounds the entire town of Rothenburg (for protection in the “old days”.)