München

Our experience of München was quite awesome. We had the blessing to stay with our friend Andreas for basically a whole week (thanks Andy!). Molly and I toured the town looking at shops, churches, and eating some delish pastries. We had this one called ''Erdbeere Royal''. Erdbeere is strawberry in German - it was heavenly. On wednesday we went to Andy's home town of Ulm outside München. We made it for lunch with his Mom and sister Katrin. They were very nice. After, we decided to climb the tallest Christian Church tower in the world - yup, better believe it. It was, in total, seven hundred and sixty- eight steps. Son of a Nutcracker- our legs were soooo sore the next day. When we got to the top, Andy started talking about how you can feel the tower swaying in the wind - not cool. Molly peeped out of the tower, her legs shaking, took a picture and ran back down to the lower platform. Ericka was trying to steady her panicked breath - (yes, Hillary and Laura, I was a bit scared...haha) and went around the top of the tower. She felt like it was going to crumble beneath her and her legs felt like jelly. When we started descending the tower, it felt like it would go on forever and you would almost get dizzy from going around and around and around. Later that night, we went back to Andy's parent's house and had dinner with his parents, two sisters and one of his brothers. What a great family. Andy's Father was so funny! Before we left, he gave us both silk ties from his work - haha, he said ''Give these to your father or boyfriend''. Oh man- what a guy.
The next day we had an emotional trip. We decided to go to Dachau, a former concentration camp, now a memorial to those who lived and died there. There's really no words to express the feeling that you have when you're there. It's so full of stories and information - for one, Dachau was the first concentration camp, an example for all the rest, and it was the only one that kept running from start to finish. Afterwards, it really makes one have a lot of respect for those who lived to tell the tale. SO many of the men that were there wrote stories, biographies, and/or gave tours of Dachau after they were liberated. Can you imagine? Giving a tour to a bunch of people to your personal hell on earth? Wow - it's really quite amazing.
Also - Andy set up a party for us. Eleven capernwray friends were there (plus two new friends)! It was quite hilarious. It was so good to catch up with all of them and just laugh.

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