La Dolce Vita: Hungover in Hofbrau

Munich Madness

Today sadly enough is our last day in beautiful Munich. We decided that since our vacation has been so incredibly stressful, we should go get a massage. We heard that an old german bathouse called the Volksbad was amazing for saunas, swimming, and massages. So you didn’t have to tell these two weary nomads twice we were there! We woke up early, hailed a taxi to the PLATZ DE MASSAGE!! It’s very strange but in Munich there are only one service personale at each place. Ie a manicure shope has one lady doing nails! Psh nutz right. The Asians have that down pact. At any rate, we took turns with the crazy german massage lady. While carly was getting her “rub down” I took a stroll out for coffee and sightseeing. Nothing all too interesting but pretty none the less. That’s when I actually ran into the nail shop with the one nail tech- we clearly didn’t get our nails done yet. We both still have talons ;)

After carly was done it was my turn for massage madness! The lady was GREAT but she kept talking to me! I am thinking- perhaps I can pretend I don’t understand her? Perhaps I’ll fake sleep? Perhaps I’ll just ask her to shut up bitten? None of the above worked. She talked to me the entire time. She told me how she is a “Dot-Bot”. Apparently there is a famous massage woman. “Dr. Dot” and she’s one of her minions so to speak. She then proceded, between my shoulder rub and my back rub that she was going to give a massage for Lady Gaga while on tour because she has “dot bots”. I was going to give her a dot after I hit her to be quite, but I relaxed and enjoyed what I could in silence lol

After, I was hungery so we stopped for no other than SUBWAY! Yum-o it’s good even in Germany. Actually anything is better than a sausage!! Lol

Back to the house we went to get ready for our exciting Hofbrau Bier Garden Extravangza. It kinda took us two attempts to actually get there though. We left the house about 6pm. Took our free tram out to the Platz, but got “easily distracted” .

Round two we were much more successful! We arrive at the extremely packed Hofbrau Bier Garden to do circles around the resturant to try to find a seat, a cm, an inch to squeeze ourselves into to have some beer to warm our frozen bodies! No luck. Another round, no luck, another round-ah SCORE Carly grabs us a seat next to a couple, two Japaneese men and a germ- aka a German lol

We make nice- attempt to order a beer with no success getting the waiter. Our newest Japanesse friend literally FLAGGED him down in order for him to come to our table. We order our biers, LITERS, our sausages, PLATTERS, and SPATZEL (german mac and cheese) and continue our awe of the German culture and lifestyle.

Our liter beers come and before we know it we are lost in conversation with our new friends. Perhaps it was the gigantic beers but they were FUN and were teaching us about the german songs and rituals. We learned how to say Cheers in German. Bropbst-followed by a CLING when we all tap our mugs!

We had a slight bit of room left at our table and a cute little family joined in OUR FUN! There was a young girl with them, and I’m thinking- seriously why couldn’t the HOT German guy come sit with us.. really? We get the family! GREAT!! Lol

Well little did I know this family was GREAT!

I started conversation after I realized that this small young girl had a mug with what seemed to be filled with BIER!!

Being the prudent PICU nurse that I am this seemed extrememly weird to me even in Germany lol

We all got involved in a BROPBST and I promptly gave the little girl a cheers! *remind you I’m almost a liter down at this point. Turns out they give the kids applejuice with sparkling water in it an d it looks exactly like BIER!! GO FIGURE!

Turns out this little girl, Mary, was amazing. We became best little friends. She was teaching me German and I was teaching her English. She was studying in school and was getting very good!

The time had come, we had finished our first liters and we go to order another bier. I asked for a ½ liter and he told me NO. hahaha I look at Carly with surprise and fright and go, “no?” and she goes “we’ll have two mas please”

Nope that’s not just two more, that’s two liters please! OYE DOWN WE GO

Ok here comes the best part, wait for it….. wait for it…. We finish our 2^nd liters and the German boy next to use orders us ½ liters (thank god)

Im not quite sure how much more I could take!

This weird German man came to talk to me from the other table. He was very distraught at two things. 1-I hadnt’ finished my sausages haha and 2- That I didn’t speak German, or French, or anything else really other than English! Lol

Finally he rejoined his mildly creepy german counteparts and I continued my English lesion via stoonad drunkness with Mary and her family.

Carly was getting a little woozy so we quickly headed home.

Never have we ever craved American delivery every before! We called 100 to the frount desk at our amazing hotel and they were kind enoguht to give us the number for the ONLY delivery place in Munich. In our drunken diasterous state we were able to order German Pizza.

It finally arrived at about 230 am. Carly was passed out, I nibbled it and fell asleep.

We awoke early to the smell of pizza on the bed and our hungover selves scrambling to get packed and ready for our next departure.

Again, we were bright enough to drink heavily the night before we had to get up at 6am in the morning and have an 8 hour day of travel! JOY