pictures 3 - munich

the german answer to rock/paper/sissors -- hold steins filled w/ water at arms length - last one down wins --

this is the bridge with the locks

close up --

zoo had lovely animals - and it was a beautiful day to be there.  ... and unlike american zoos, the animals could actually be seen --

moving tortoises !!! amazing

I had a helper for the photo

this was the decoration of the tube stop -

In Bavaria - painting the house is a traditional art form -- usually themes of folk lore, etc.

As mentioned, host is a clockmaster - so they did a house painting a little different to celebrate this  ---

another celebration - corpus christi - had the choir of alte pater (big church) and priests and congregation parading about town and stopping at outside altars set up at 4 other churches -- cheers --

camel for cousin Jan

baby elephant was very very cute...