We touched the lucky lions twice today (Sunday), so we may have been tempting fate a little bit. Eric's (at the moment) non existent post will probably tell more of the story. He is doing conference stuff. I wasn't required to stick around .... so I only stayed for half.
ResidenzWe went to the royal palace and treasury today and saw some cool stuff
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This statue, has an amazing amount of diamonds and precious pearls on it. It is of St. George slaying a dragon.
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These are some of the pieces to a cool chess set, which Eric is sure to blog about, very intricate, much like everything else in the treasury.
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Eric checking out the Antiquarium, which is the oldest room in the building and had some cool busts of people, like Ceaser, and a lot of people I don't know.
The Street FestivalAfter we touched the lions the first time we had no idea what to do, so we decided to walk along the street. Like magic a street festival appeared before our eyes. Despite the rain we slogged our way to the end, stopping for some currywurst along the way.
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Currywurst (Brats with curry pepper
We saw a lot of booths and some dancers and a lot of rain, one booth in particular caught my eye.
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A Car that runs on beer?? Isn't that better suited for drinking?
After we finished walking through the street festival we debated touching the lions for a second time. Eric said it would be greedy, I said it would be fine.... the result was.... us drenched in rain for the walk back and all the buildings we wanted to go to closed... perhaps Eric was right.