Drip, drip, drip
It's Pentecost Monday today, and so we don't have class (tomorrow either!). I'm using today to clean my room for my parents' visit (yay!) and blog, and tomorrow a couple of us are going to Passau. None of us actually know what's IN Passau, but it comes highly recommended by everyone.
In other news, the weather here has been very well suited to my tastes. Mostly the days have been warm (in the high 70s to mid 80s), and then in the evening epic thunderstorms roll in and all the allergens get washed out of the air. Plus, in the window where the pressure is changing and the clouds moving in, there are really nice, almost haunting cool breezes.
On Saturday, Lauren, Rachel, Kay and I went to the Weltenburg Cloister, then on a river cruise, and then climbied up to the Befreiungshalle in Kelheim (another Ludwig I endeavor). It was part of a program with the Akademisches Auslandsamt, the office on campus that deals with foreign exchange students.
The boat ride was only 20 minutes long, which was kind of disappointing, but we got gelato during it, so all was not lost. At the end of the boat ride, we were led through Kelheim to a path up to the Befreiungshalle. The path had to be like 60 degrees above the horizontal where it started. I was scared. (We didn't get to see much of Kelheim because we weren't close to the center, or at least didn't know where it was.)
In the end, the hike up was not too bad, especially with company, and it was super-duper worth it. The multi-colored rectangles are not the result of different colored stone, but rather painting. It looks pretty sweet up close.
It says "The German Fight for Liberation, Ludwig I, King of Bavaria, 1863"
Believe it or not, the inside was even cooler than the outside.
Strangely, you can also walk behind those angels.
Photos from Dult:
Three views of the heart cookies that were everywhere. They have strings so you wear them like a necklace.
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