Today we’re leaving Amsterdam. Worn out from the last two days of hyperactive sightseeing, we take it easy and saunter out of the hotel at 10:30am. Tram to Centraal Station, train to Schipol airport, get through security, wait for delayed plane, finally get on and make the relativ
ely short flight to Munich. Chris saw many wind turbines from the air.
We were greeted at the airport by Chris’s Aunt Renate and cousins Conny and Sabrina who brought us big bottles of beer and fresh pretzels. Then we went out to the parking lot and drank the beer and ate the pretzels. Now that’s how you greet people at the airport. Technically, we’re here for Renate’s birthday party which will bring most of Chris’s German relatives to Munich. The girls are wearing traditional Bavarian dress of dirndl (the fancy dress with the apron) and lederhosen (the leather shorts). With the annual Oktoberfest many people wear their traditional clothing during the two week celebration.
This visit we’re staying at Sabrina and her boyfriend Marcy’s house outside of Munich. They live on a 5-acre estate in a hundred year old house with a beautiful yard full of fruit trees, marmots, pheasants, and their two dogs, Jazz and Casey. Jazz is just about a year old and is huge. She’s part Leonberger and parts ‘other’. Below you see her falling asleep with her squeaky schwein toy. Casey, the black one, is “standing guard” in the driveway in the photo above, and snoozing in her special outside chair in the photo below.
The girls are wearing traditional Bavarian dress of dirndl (the fancy dress with the apron) and leiderhosen (the leather shorts). During Octoberfest many people wear their traditional clothing.