+ Sausage breakfast in a bun with sauerkraut = Genuine Hot Dog! + Danishes and croissants at a bakery before running out to watch the Glockenspiel at Noon + Desperate glove shopping before bike tour and failing (unless we wanted to pay 49.90 Euro for a pair) + Bike tour around Munich, zipped by a lot of places and saw a pagoda, a surfer, and lots of doggies + Tried to go up to the towers of churches and the Glockenspiel to get a good view, but all were closed (5PM, so late! Really.) + Saw a service at the two onion dome church, also saw the Devil’s footprint! The music was very nice. Amy got emotional and we left + Some more glove and scarf shopping. Success! Brian bought a tourist Deutschland scarf and Amy found a discount corner store with gloves for 2euro! (right next to the gaudy glasses and bling jewelry) + Went on a hunt for Munchen Kartoffelhaus (recommended as a must try restaurant by WikiTravel), asked a couple who ran a fruit stand, who sent us off somewhere along a big street, we couldn’t find it, so we asked someone at Burger King, who sent us up two subway stations away, then we asked someone at a hotel who had no idea what we were talking about. As a final attempt, on our way back to the train station, we checked the phone book. No luck. We gave up and went back to the main square for Mcdonald’s. + Went back and checked email and measured heads. (see blog below).

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Here’s a funny story for you!

It’s around 11:30PM on clear night in Munich. Brian and I are sitting in the lobby of Hotel Jedderman next to windows with a clear view from the street, using the free internet station. We received an email from Stanford saying that we could order our cap and gowns, but we needed to measure our head to get our cap size. Luckily, I had remembered to bring a tape measurer, exactly for this occasion. So Brian is helping me measure my head (an inch above the ears!) when two ladies walk into the lobby from the street. After Brian finished his measurement and I looked up, I saw the two ladies, standing over Brian’s shoulder, staring at us and the computer, looking confused and amused at the same time. I stared at them and they stared at me, Brian was somewhere in the middle. Then the ladies started laughing and I started laughing. I knew that they had thought what we were doing was the most bizarre thing they had seen all night, and I knew I had to explain it to them or I would never be able to live it down, so I said, “Sprechen sie Englisch?” (Do you speak English?) to which she nodded, and I explained “I’m trying to order a hat, so I have to measure my head!” and she said “Ohhhhh” and then babbled a lot about what she thought we might have been doing, which included, “Maybe you were measuring your brain?”