Last night was a weirder night than I expected in a lot of aspects. After our day of touring we laid down to rest for a bit. We set the alarm for an hour, but I think I only really needed to sleep for a half an hour and then was ready to go. So we cam downstairs to get some work done on the computer. I am having some major issues with the picture website. It takes forever to upload the pictures to the Internet, the way I am doing it. In addition to that, at most the max I can upload is five pictures at a time. In addition to that that, the uploads are not always very smooth. In addition to that, I am not sure if everyone can see the pictures. In addition to that, I am running through storage space on the picture site like crazy. In addition to that, I am very close to max storage capacity on my computer so I need to get rid of some things so that I have more memory. A main priority of mine is getting them backed up on the Internet in case something was to happen. I was working with Spencer on a way to make it easier for me, but this hostel is kinda whack and had restricted some bizarre websites from use on its network. For example, I couldn’t download the program that would help me with the pictures or go to a random wikipedia site and Katherine couldn’t check one of the sites she normally does. All of that being said, if yall have the time will you please let m know if you can see my pictures. I think if you can, it might have something to do if you are logged on yourself to your google account, but really I have no idea. All of the pictures are up that I have taken to date.
That gets me started on the subject of this hostel. Now why this hostel has been great in the sense that it is clean and offers free breakfast, it is pretty weird in the sense that there are a ton of middle schoolers running around. It seems like to day there are more older people milling about, but yesterday was it was like woah, I feel like I am riding the school bus again. Katherine and I were working on our computers in the lounge area and then all of a sudden we were swarmed by a bunch of kids that were sitting down really close to us. They all packed in and it turns out it was the location of their group meeting. All very strange. Then last night we were talking to a guy from Wisconsin and a weird Spanish speaking security guard yelled at us to be quiet. He yelled at us in a foreign language (not quite sure which one) when he obviously heard us speaking American English to the other American, so we obviously had no clue what he was saying. Our facial expressions also should have given that away. Apparently we were being to loud after curfew, but then he came and sat down with his buddy, had a coffee and a beer, and were speaking Spanish so loud. He then did a 180 in attitude towards us and tried to chat it up. It really all was very strange.
Then my mom got in touch with me about some immediate problem they were having with my bank in Colorado, which needed immediate attention by me and only me and they couldn’t tell her any information. So I am trying to get this all figured out through email and “secure” messages on the bank website. Turns out my credit card with that bank had a random $3.74 charge on it that was an “advance” to a loan. Honestly I have no clue about this charge on the credit card. So then that had late fees on it and long story short I “owe” the bank a whopping total of $20 something dollars. So immediate I know. This irritated me because with the so-called “immediate” issue they were being terrible with responding to my emails, were not flexible or understanding (they asked me to fax my signature, really I’m in Germany staying in a Hostel) with my situation, when I left Colorado all of my account balances were at zero and my account should have been tagged inactive like I requested. All of these things started to stress me out, in addition to the fact that we were supposed to be planning out next move at the time. So after spending way more time than I wanted to on the computer, I left the bank guy an email telling him that I was at my wits end and he needed to think outside of the box with me to help me get the situation resolved if it needed immediate attention.
So then we went to see Oktoberfest again, but at this point it was pretty late and we still needed to eat. We ended up splitting a donor kabob in one of the train stations that had a food court area. To our credit we are doing fantastic with splitting food to reduce cost and it is way healthier for us that way. Im going to go on a super tangent right now. Every one here is so skinny and the food here is bad for you. I don’t get how they do it. Any who, after eating we were on our way walking to Oktoberfest for a good portion because we weren’t quite sure the stop that was at the place. It was dark and their drunk people were everywhere and it wasn’t the best situation we could be in, but it wasn’t the worst either because we were on a lit city street where other people were also on it.
We finally make it to Oktoberfest and naturally everyone is hammered. Oktoberfest is funny because it is like a large adult carnival. Truly, super drunk people are everywhere. Its quite amusing, especially because eon the metro they look like they are going to feel terrible the next day. The whole party kinda reminds me of my friend Aussie on Australia day. Lots of German pride and getting real riled up over it. I’m totally glad I got to see and experience it. It was a little more difficult for us to get into it because we didn’t really know the words to any of the German songs they were belting out and didn’t have a reservation at a table (being two little girls just starting off our adventure, we weren’t bold enough to be pushy to just sit down at a table). All that being said, I don’t think I need to go to Oktoberfest again. On our way out we saw a bunch or real drunk people either laying or sitting on the ground while the masses were trampling over them to get out of the park. Obviously they were super out of it. Then trying to get on the metro with the masses was chaos, luckily we made it work pretty well for us being the metro stars that we are.
· Also I would just like to comment the exact ride wild maus (that used to be wild izzy) that was at Busch Gardens, was also set up at Oktoberfest. Take that however you like.
We got back to the hostel and then had to do some major work on deciding where we are going today because our time staying at this hostel is up (it is very expensive so that is a good thing) and we are pretty ready to leave Munich. It was a good place to throw ourselves into to begin the trip, but it is wild here, kinda dirty, and it is time for us to mellow out. My dad sent me an email yesterday asking me how I was doing on jetlag. I replied that I didn’t think it had effected me that much, which ended up being a total jinx. Last night I couldn’t fall asleep until 3:30 for a 7:30 wake up call. All that being said we decided to do a day trip to Zugspitz (the tallest peak in Germany) and then head on toward Frankfurt. It should be a nice change of pace there.
We woke up this morning and kinda rushed around for the 9:30 check out. Thankfully, we can leave our big packs at the hostel while we go on our day trip to Zugspitz so we don’t have to carry them around all day. We just need to book a hostel for Frankfurt, repack out packs and then we will be on our way.
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