Nuremberg

I think I love Nuremberg. It was so easy to get to everything and it's really laid back and calm and pretty. My hostel was right near the train station and right down the street was like a pedestrian only street with all kinda of shops and restaurants. When I got there and put my stuff down I went out to see what all was around. They have this market area with flowers and fruit. A lady was standing out there trying to sell apple chips so I tried one and bought a huge bag! They are awesome. It's like when we went to Belize last year they had plantain chips and here it's apples. I found a Mexican food place and was so excited! They didn't have queso which made me sad but it was an awesome margarita and quesadilla!! I was going to just go to sleep early that night since I hadn't slept much in the past two weeks but this guy in my room from Switzerland and a guy from spain were going for beer soooo of course I had to go too! We went to an Irish pub right next to the hostel and after a beer the Spanish guy left. So Ivan and I went to a different bar and had a few pitchers and made some new friends.

The next day I went to the imperial castle and some of the museums. On my way to the castle I stopped for breakfast. I thought it was just a regular cafe place. Nope it was ice cream. So I had an awesome ice cream breakfast! The castle was cool but I wanted to see the inside but they only had a tour in German. So that was a weird one hour of my life. There is a building that covers a well and I have no idea how deep it was but he poured a pitcher of water out and it took a while to hit the well. So I guess it's pretty deep. Afte r that I went to the toy museum which was not worth it. It was literally just a bunch of old toys. There was a doll room that I took a picture of, my grandmother would have loved it and probably tried to buy the dolls at garage sale prices. I wanted to go to the courthouse where the nuremberg trials happened so I went back to the hostel to figure out how to get there and met a girl in my room from France. Colette had tried to go there earlier but it was closed so we were going to go today (wed) instead. We went to the new museum which was weird modern art design stuff. We didn't really get it so we went to the German national museum which is freaking huge! There's like 3 floors and so many different exhibits. They had an exhibit on albrect durer who is a really famous German artist. Colette and I got separated and since I was done looking at artsy stuff I went downstairs to wait. I waited for like 20 minutes and then just went back to the hostel. When she got back she said she had fallen asleep on a bench while trying to wait for me. We went and got dinner back by the castle and the pork I had was awesome. The only weird thing was this ball of potatoes that was like stuck together and tasted really weird. I just ordered some food here in Munich and got that stupid potato ball again. I still don't like it. We got ice cream again In the way back to the hostel and we both thought it felt like we were on a date. We saw the Spanish guy and a girl named verity from England at the hostel and we dragged the Spanish guy out for a beer. He is a bit strange but pretty nice and Colette and i might have laughed at him a few times bc he's was weird. Verity was really cool, she is studying German and Chinese for school so she is living in Nuremberg for 7 months and then moving to china for a few months. We went to this really big Irish pub called o Shea's and hung out for a while. They love south park and big bang theory and family guy so we had a lot to talk about for a while!!!!! We found out the Spanish guys name is Jon so we didn't have to call him Spanish guy anymore.

This morning Colette and I went to the nuremberg trial memorial which was so awesome. We got to go in the actual courtroom! They give you this thing that you type in what number you are at and it tells you all about it. Then upstairs is sort of like a museum telling all about the trial and showing clips from it and telling you which awful nazi guy got sentenced to what. I was really shocked that three of them got acquitted. And I think it was crappy that the top bad guy (after hitler) killed himself the night before he was supposed to be hung. It showed video clips of some of them being hung and some footage from one of the concentration camps with all of the dead bodies. It gave me goose bumps. I think tomorrow I am going to take a tour to Dachau which I think will be really freaky but I've always wanted to go there and to Auschwitz. I left her at the museum bc I was starving and wanted to go on to Munich. It was like a two hour train ride and since I hadn't eaten anything all day I ate my awesome apple chips and some chocolate that I had bought. She will be coming to Munich on Thursday so we are going to try and meet up and do a pub crawl on Friday night since I am leaving on sat. She's 20 and is traveling alone for a month and said she hasn't gone out drinking or anything cuz she's afraid. I totally understand that, I wouldn't go out by myself and drink a lot of beer and then have to figure out where I'm going. It has been nice the few times I have actually gone out out that I've met people from the hostel or the whole hostel goes out to something. Sometimes I think I'd like to go out and do the whole European club thing more, but I'm quite happy to drink lots of beer early and make it back to my hostel when it's still daylight! Plus there have only been a few places where I would have gone to the club and let myself drink bc I sort of trusted those people I went out with.

I sort of feel like I am ready to come home. I feel like a bum for not having a job even tho I worked my tail off to not have one and it's the first time since i was 16 that I haven't had a job. At the moment I think I'll be back in the middle of September instead of staying through oct. I think after outlook 2012 the music festival I will fly from Croatia to Scotland and then go to Ireland and come home. One of my sorority sisters is moving to Florence to teach English in sept and wants me to go to Oktoberfest with her which would be awesome but then it's like I'm just jumping all over the place again. I'd be going from Ireland back to Germany and then flying back to nc but maybe flights would be cheaper. I'll just have to look into it I guess!

I think I'm starting to get why my uncle drew comes to Germany every yr! It seems like such a different lifestyle and plus beer and the food is awesome! He was out here last week in Berlin but he left on the 8th, it would have been so awesome to see him!

Tomorrow will be fun because the hostel has a free walking tour of the city in the morning and then I will either go to Dachau or the neushwanstein castle that Disney sort of copied for I think it's auroras castle in Disneyland but I can't quite remember. I think after Munich I will be going to austria for a few days so ms Debbie tell josef that I am going to zell am ziller!