The Deutsches Museum
Today we went to The Deutsches Museum. This place is basically a museum of how everything ever is created. It is not unique to just Germany, but covered the world's history in creating tools, vehicles, and items for the arts. Some exhibits are just for viewing while many others are a little more hands on (think Exploratorium). We started in the oil and gas exhibit and worked our way through metals, electric power, robotics, nanotechnology, aeronautics, ceramics, textiles, photo and film, computers, weights and measures, timekeeping and way more than I'm going to list here. The glassblowing exhibit was pretty exceptional as there was a live demo. We got to see a wine glass being made. The paper making and printing exhibit was both our favorite and we happened to see another live demo there of an old fashion printing press. The museum is so massive we had to skip some exhibits but I'm fine with that. What I do wish I had done is take more pictures. I kinda blanked today and only took a handful.
Afterward we heading back up to the English Gardens and chilled in the park for a few hours. There was saw several baby geese following their parents around, learning how to harass passing people into giving them food.
And speaking of food... The stereotypical German diet of meat, bread, and beer is alive and well here in Munich. It struck us today that we havn't eaten a single vegetable since we got here. Tonight we made a very specific stop at a grocery store to get green salads. I specify 'green' because every salat we order tends to be sliced potatoes drenched in mayonnaise. Something else we have realized and repeatedly forgetten is that if one orders water in Germany, it is by default carbonated. You must specifically ask for flat water, something we keep forgetting to do. Oops. -1 point for our memory.