Greetings from the land of beer!  And more beer!  And believe it or not, I’ve been in Munich a full day and haven’t had one yet.  I’m just too exhausted with jet lag and the stress of actually getting here, that I’m afraid if I drink one beer that I’ll pass out right on the streets of Munich.  Crazy American.  But never fear, my peeps, Lulu will have a beer (or two) today!  I totally need one.

So, let me just give you a quick rundown of what has happened so far.

We were scheduled to leave Atlanta on Wednesday around 4:15pm, but it turned out to be more like 5:30pm due to the bad weather in Atlanta.  After I pulled myself out from underneath my seat after a crazy, rocky take-off, we were on our way.  And nine sleepless hours later, we were attempting (key word – attempting) to land at the Munich airport.  And I say attempting, because the skies over Munich looked like this:

Very foreboding.  Anyhow, as we descended upon the runway, the landing gear came out, and I’m not exactly sure how close we were to the runway, but the airplane suddenly shot back up into the sky like a freaking rocket from hell.  Again, after pulling myself out from underneath my seat, the pilot announced that due to low visibility, we were unable to land, and that he would attempt (there’s that word again – attempt) to land one more time or else we would have to divert to Frankfurt.  Diverting seemed liked a better idea to me than attempting.  Frankfurt is a beautiful city, I’ve heard.  I was all for diverting.  But, no.  That was not to be.  We were attempting.  And to make a long story short, the attempt (i.e. gamble with my freaking life) worked, and we landed in the fog in which you could not see 3 feet in front of you.  Again, Frankfurt seemed the better choice, as you can see from this:

So, after we landed, we were all like this:

Finding our cute little hotel (little being the operative word) was not as a big deal as I thought it would be.  Thankfully, many people here sprechen de English, as Lulu does not sprechen de Germany.  And what a shame it is that American schools do not require that students learn a second language.  It’s a travesty, I say. S o, after checking into our hotel around 10am, we hit the ground running and visited these sites:

Spielzeug Museum (toy and bear museum)
Viktualienmarkt
Munich Residenz

And today, we’ll be doing a tour of Munich on bike with Mike’s Bike Tours and visiting the Hofbräuhaus.  And drinking beer.

For now, this is all the time that I have as my stomach is growling and Lulu must eat breakfast—1:00am Georgia time/7:00am Germany time. My body is so confused.  But, I will leave you with a link to my pictures from yesterday.  I didn’t have time to label them so you’ll just have to guess as to where they were taken, and I uploaded them in reverse order just to confuse you even more.  Here’s the link.  (I think…I’m new to Flickr).

Prost!