Sunday, July 12, 2009

A Day at the English Gardens

On Friday morning, Benny and I got up about our usual time, but took our time getting ready, checking email, and catching up on reading we'd both been wanting to do. When we were ready, we took the train to Pasing to pick up some breakfast pastries (I had an apple cinnamon pastry and Benny got a strawberry one, which we shared, and he got an apricot filled doughnut)and coffee and headed back to the train to go to the English Gardens.

We took our breakfast to the English Gardens and found a nice spot on the lake to eat and watch the ducks and swans. It turned out to be a beautiful day with a nice breeze, so we walked around all different areas of the gardens, finding some waterfalls, grassy areas where kids were playing, and a nice path along the river. We ended up heading over to the Residenz Museum area, mostly to see what was over there and decided that we'd come back and do the museum on Sunday. When we started getting hungry for lunch, we walked back to the English Gardens and got food at the Chinese Tower area. Benny ordered Bavarian meatloaf and I had potatoes and sausage, and we split an order of cabbage. You can see the meatloaf pictured here; it's actually more like bologna and most people, we've discovered, eat it on a sandwich.

After lunch, it started to sprinkle rain a bit, so we walked back to the station and went to Marienplatz, instead of going to Olympia Park as originally planned. We did a bit of shopping in Marienplatz, and stopped to pick up the tea infuser we'd seen before at the JA Henckles store. We went back home after that, since we had a little bit of grocery shopping and some other errands to do on the way. We picked up some more bread, lunch meat for picnic lunches, cheese, and a few snack items, like crackers and cookies, at the grocery store. We also had to get some razor blades for Benny's razor, which we found at the grocery store. We did a snack supper of cheese, salami, and some other items, and had a few hours of down time before going to bed.

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