Day 12 - Shopping in Munich

  Today we traveled up to Munich to go shopping.  Our first stop was a large department store with a buffet.  Will chose to eat only sausages but Jon filled his plate with carrots, mushrooms, potatoes and broccoli.  My son won’t touch broccoli at home but here he ate two helpings.  As he ate we talked about Grandpa Z and how much he loves it.

Jon eats his broccoli

  After lunch we hung out in the toy area while Grandma shopped downstairs.  Camille has been teaching the boys how to shop and they already have their own styles.  Will could spend all day looking at different things and deciding what to get.  Eventually he decided to get a set of fake Euros to play with.  Jon approaches shopping in his own way.  He walked in, found the little Batman he wanted right away and was not tempted by anything else the whole time we were there. 

  Jon did the same thing when we went to find the boys a sweater.  Today was rainy and Munich was much colder than we had expected, far too cold for the boys’ thin coats.  When we stopped to get them each a sweater or fleece, Jon went right away to the winter jackets.  He found a Spiderman jacket, put it on and then marched over to Daddy and twirled round with his arms spread while saying, “Ta-Da!”

Jon in his new coat

  We walked around Munich for quite a while, looking at stores and having hot chocolate at a café.  At one point Grandma and Will went into a linen store where Camille asked the shop girl for the price of a pillow.  When she was told 20 euros Will put his paper money on the counter and said “I have money, Grandma”.

Daddy and sons in Munich

Will plays with his money

Will in Munich

  My feet are killing me from the hike yesterday but aside from lunch and the café I couldn’t find anywhere to sit in the city.  On the mountain there was a bench around every corner but here in Munich there was no place to sit.  We had planned on having dinner at the Hofbrauhaus (James’ favorite restaurant) but we were all pretty tired so we decided to head home early.  I think we could all use a bit of a rest.

Auf Wiedersehen!