Residenz and Schliersee

A few weekends ago we played tourist in our own city. There was a holiday celebrating some Catholic holiday here in Bavaria and Simon had a Thursday off. We headed to the Munich Residenz. The Residenz is the former palace of the Bavaria rulers up until 1918. A lot of the palace was destroyed due to WWII, but it was reconstructed.

Simon and I at the Hall of Antiquities

Conley

The jewels at the Residenz's treasury. This was Auburn's favorite tiara.

Cuvillies Theatre

The next morning Simon had to go back to work. When I checked my email first thing in the morning I found a little from Simon. He had booked a room for us at Schliersee for the weekend. It is the same apartments that we got to for Christmas. He put in a request at work 8 months ago and never told me. It was a wonderful surprise. I packed quickly and we took a train out that afternoon.

Here we are on the row boat on Lake Schliersee.

We took a bus to Spitzingsee and hiked around the lake.

We found some cows with awesome bells around their necks.

The weekend was kind of overcast, but the sun came out right as we were finishing our hike.

Comments

SJ said…

<3 the cows!

July 10, 2012 at 12:19 PM

Bradley L. Hill said…

I hadn't checked for a couple of weeks, and was excited to see these new posts! What memories you are creating!

July 18, 2012 at 2:13 PM

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