Floating By

Today's title is brought to you by Ammon who has not yet had the pleasure of naming one of our blog posts. It is our last day in Munich and we are going out with a bang. We woke a little earlier than we have  been so that we could cram more things in today. First, we drove back in to Munich to see another palace: Nymphenburg Palace.

The palace grounds are extensive with many other "mini palaces" around the main palace. The garden was also huge. The kids only had the patience for a few of the buildings and a small part of the garden. They knew we were also planning to play on the lake today and wanted to make sure we had enough time for that. The rooms were lavish in the palace, as you might expect.

After seeing the interior of the palace we walked around a bit in the garden and saw many of the sculptures there. I believe the sculptures represented the greek gods.

We enjoyed the fountain. There were tons of large fish swimming in the water. We also saw a nest of baby birds and got to see their mom bring them food.

We next went and visited the carriage house and the porcelain museum. The carriages were enormous. Some of them had so many sculptures and gold on them I would imagine they were incredibly heavy to pull. We saw a lot of the tack as well. 

After we finished at the museum the kids were hungry and "dying" to go to the lake. So we loaded up and made our way out to Ammersee. We found a cute restaurant that had food that was almost too German for us. 

After lunch we finally made our way to the lake where we rented 3 paddle boards. We had an awesome time paddling out through the lake. I really enjoyed Ammersee better than Lake Starnsberg. The water was an interesting mix of nice and warm spots and really cold spots. I'm surprised the temperature isn't more even. The 2 temperatures seem to stay very separate.

The kids were disappointed we couldn't spend more time at the lake, but we had to get back so Ammon could log on for work and so I could get us packed up before I log on for work. We leave this beautiful place tomorrow to strike out for Switzerland. I am probably most excited about seeing Switzerland again.

Ammon says he will miss how pretty it is and the "cool buildings." We've also enjoyed that the people are friendly. He is looking forward to the next thing.

I really love Germany and will be sad to go. At the same time, I am ready to move on. While there are tons of other places we could have explored here, I feel like we are ready for the next thing. On the other hand. I am already annoyed at the packing up and unpacking and we are only on stop number 2. So that's not great. I will definitely not miss the mosquitos. There are so many! Poor Lucette is covered in bites. She always gets the worst of it.

Cormac says he will miss how the roads are nicer here and will miss the food. He also says he will miss everything. He really likes the towns and how things are spread out. They aren't that spread out in Munich, but here in the outskirts there is a little more space.

Azure says she will miss the houses. They look really cute. She also says she feels comfortable and safe here. She is looking forward to her own bedroom at the next Air BnB and is really excited for Switzerland. She thinks it will be super fun and she loves going to new places and exploring the Air BnBs and the new places.

Lucette will miss all the plants and how green it is. She says she will miss the palaces. She is looking forward to exploring and it will be fun "and stuff."

The kids are missing their friends back home, but we are all still enjoying our trip. Here are a last few pictures of our current Air BnB. 

Okay, now back to packing for me.