some pics in Munich

Moritz in Bad Tölz
the Olympic Stadionin the English Garden

Munich 12th August to 18th

Moritz and I did it. We travelled to my godmother to Munich and did the 7 hour hike. It was a wonderful day and great weather.
NO :)
When we started our tour at one of so many mountains - clouds sourrounded us and we had a bad view. But I think it didn't matter, because the way was so narrow and by the way I have a little acrophobia, so I didn't need to see how cliffy it was.
The ways were full of wet stones and mud. So we had problems to hike , sorry, to climb safe.
And may I present my crew:
Ingo (husband of my godmother)
Ines and Sabine (Ingos twins, 28 years old, Sabine wears yellow, Ines red)
Oli (32 years old and boyfriend of Sabine)
and Moritz and me

So we started our tour and I wanted to keep the views up to the front and to my left and right side holding. It was so foggy we really couldn't see anything.

Here we go. We hiked and climbed up and we had a lot of fun. Oli always wanted to be the first so he hiked and climbed very fast and had the half of my problems because of his long legs.
When he was up on hills and saw us he called us and took pictures of us trying to get the best hold on those wet stones to climb up.

So as you can see the view was really bad.
After the first 3 hours we had a 'Brotzeit'. The Bavarians call a break to eat something 'Brotzeit'.
During our Brotzeit sitting on a hill up on a mountain and between mountains the weather cleared off a bit. We had a short view to valleys.

Oli and I felt like tourists in the mountains - were taking a lot of pictures :)
We hiked on, the cross on the summit of one mountain in objective.
The forward we came the worse the ways became.
Even Moritz had problems and we hiked on. Oli was so fast that we couldn't see him anymore.
Sometimes the way was splitted but Oli always painted an arrow in that mud to show us which way we had to take. haha


The surrounding was amazing. Seriously I felt like in a Lord of the Rings movie. The area looked very untouched.
And with the fog all around the feeling became stronger. :)





As you might know now Oli went ahead and stopped at once.
He said we had to look back. There would be a capricorn. We watched in the distance and saw many capricorns. But Oli wanted us look 2m away. In front of us lay a big capricorn we have never seen before. He had so big horns. We felt like in an outside zoo and the capricorn were just sitting there pretty cool and didn't feel harassed.
After this highlight we saw many capricorns and chamoises. That was pretty exciting.



A lot of chamoises crossed our ways. Sometimes they stood in front of us and weren't scared and didn't want to move.
When we arrived at the summit of one big mountain (1800m) we took a Brotzeit and wrote our feelings in the summit book. And when we sat there eating our bread the weather really became better and we could see a lot of beautiful things.
We had luck. We spoke to many other people and they couldn't see anything.
The way down was hard. Actually it was a litte detour to the 'Tützinger Hütte' . A cute cabin down of the mountain where we drunk and ate something again.




The last way down to the meeting point took 3 hours!!!
That was the hardest part.
Just going down. We were exhausted when we were sitting in the 'Tützinger Hütte'. And we didn't want to think about it while sitting in the cabin.
First we had to overcross a cow paddock. The cows were really cute. Were sleeping in the gras and didn't care about us.

When we finally arrived at our meeing point the only wish was taking a long and hot shower. But we had to drive 45min to our home.
I had realy luck! Could take the first shower...I was happy.

Well, vacation is almost over and there is only a few days left until school starts. I finished my internship yesterday, at the end it was quite awesome since I really had stuff to do and I wasn't just sitting or standing around and somebody would explain me something. I worked on an engine (General Electric CF6-80C2) for Jumbo jets, which was very interesting and I had lots of fun doing it. The first week was the most boring week of the whole thing, since I was just standing there with a piece of aluminum and rasping it until it was so smooth that my supervisor was satisfied, and that literally took 4 days (á 7 hours). The second week I was in the safety section where the fire extinguisher and oxygen mask overhauls were. That was a little more interesting than the first week and finally the third week which I told you about. To have at least a little fun at my last days of vacation I decided to visit Moritz, Maria and their dad in Saaleck on one weekend inbetween my internship.

So i booked tickets for the "Deutsche Bahn" which is the train company and left on Friday afternoon, I didn't even get to see the opening ceremony of the Olympics. Anyway, the train took about 4 hours tp get to Naumburg, which was the closest train station to Saaleck, of course the train was late (as German trains are always late). The funniest thing though was the announcements of the railroad engineer who had to make them in German and in English, the English parts are always funny because most of them just don't know English real well and try to hide that by mumbling. I got there at about 9:15 and they were waiting at the train station to pick me up, which was very nice. Saaleck didn't change much, I at least didn't notice anything. We had dinner and played a game which (Moritz thought it was funny) was in my opinion kind of boring and then we went to bed.

The next day, the sun was shining and I had the pleasure to get up at 8 involuntary, since Moritz and Maria couldn't decide who gets to use the bathroom first, so they had a little argument in front of my (opened) door. We had breakfast outside and it was warm and nice (the bees thought that too). After that we played badminton, destroyed 3 shuttlecocks after five minutes and that was it. Later we went up to "Himmelreich" , a restaurant on the hills that surround Saaleck and you have a wonderful view of the little village. So we took picture with our model Nemo and made some crazy videos. Moritz's and Maria's dad went back very soon because he was tired and wanted to lay down. We decided to stay there for a little longer. After we went down, we got ready for dinner and drove to Naumburg to eat. After dinner, we looked through Naumburg to walk off the food and at night we watched the movie "The pianist", a very brutal but good and realistic movie about a polish ghetto in Warsaw and a man, who is a pianist but has to flee from the Nazis.

After we were done and all tired (12:00) somebody of us came up with the idea to play playstation which we did, but after 15 minutes we were so tired that nobody really wanted to continue and we went to bed, since we had to get up early again (which I was used to already).

The next morning we went to church at 11 and it was very cool. It is a small church and we were about 20 people, the service took about an hour and after that we walked on the old cemetery with graves from the 18th century. We went back home and started to pack our staff for the ride back to Hamburg, which was supposed to take 4 hours or so. We made sure that we had everything and that the house was clean. before we left. On the autobahn, there was heavy traffic again and again, so the whole drive took about 5 or 6 hours, on the way back we either slept, listened to music or teased each other, sorry Maria that you were our victim sometimes, but we still love you (at least I do;))

Hamburger Dom (August 4)

For today we planed to do lots of things together. So Julia came for breakfast with "Brötchen" at 12 pm. After it Hecki and I took a walk with Nemo. At 4 pm we started our wonderful trip to the Hamburger Dom. It is something like a festival with lots of cool things: roller coasters, carousels...
It was amazing! In the beginning the weather was really okay. The "Dancer" was Julia's and my first ride. We two love that one. But when the carousel stopped so that new persons could ride the Dancer we were looking for a free car and saw in front of us a girl who was throughing up. That was disgusting but we also felt sorry for her!
Then we had our ride on Dancer and we loved it!!!

The "Dom" is pretty big so we walked for a little while to ride the next carousel which we would like to ride ;)
The next one was "Wildwasser" (wild water) but Julia didn't want to pay money for this ride so she stand outside and took some pictures. Hecki, Moritz and I stood in the line and watched the people who were coming out of the wild water and were pretty wet!
Then I really wanted to go into the "Frisbee": it's almost a swing boat where the boat is always turning another and another... round! I love the fly feeling but finally I had to make Hecki doing this ;) but I guess he liked it too - even though just a little bit ;)
Beside this we saw lots of Amercian stuff like flags and corn on the cob! ;)
Another great thing is to ride the big wheel but it's really expensive and we always have taken a ride in the past so we didn't want to pay that much for something we do know really well.
Then we walked by the "Airwolf". A real big ride that Riley would have loved. We got sick even when we looked at it...=)
Hey you guys remember the "Wild Mouse" in lagoon? We have that one in Hamburg too!! Cool, hu?!

The next thing Moritz and Hecki wanted to try bumper cars (I wanted too, but not with my headache ;).
It's pretty funny...when you stand in line you are always listening to such different music anytime. This ride was Hip Hop style. Within Hecki and Moritz!

Okay, this is the "Olympia" roller coaster. It's amazing!!!!!
I really wanted to take a ride and so did Julia but it was too expensive. Finally I didn't care about it, because that roller coaster looked soo awesome! So I took a ride and I really don't regret it! It was that amazing! 5 loops in succession and I was screaming, screaming and screaming!!! haha ;)

Since I wanted Hecki in the swing boat he wanted to make me in something like a mirror carousel - around us were only mirrors and you have to find your way to the end by to feel around for free ways through he mirrors and glasses. Hecki and I did a BAD job! ;) It took about 15 min to get out of this random thing...

When we got out of it, it started to rain. Wonderful rain! No, just kidding! But it's funny to see all the people trying to get somewhere under.
At last I just took a picture of our biggest and I think one of the most beautiful churches of Hamburg. In front of the church were the "Dom" and the biggest chairoplane.
Finally you can't see very much of the church. :)