The family took us under their wing for our weekend in Munich. We dropped in at the Deutsches Museum of Aviation housed at Schleissheim Palace in the historic hangar built in 1918 for the first Royal Bavarian Flying Corps. The airfield is still active and we sat in the pilots' Biergarten and watched glider takeoffs and landings while Arlo taught aircraft construction to the girls with paper airplanes. The zoo made us feel batty in the fledermaushaus (flying mouse house) where bats swoop around your head in the dark. Note: The German vocabulary is relatively small — but creatively combines words for lengthy and entertaining compound words. "Fallschirmspringerschule" (parachute jumper school) is a fun example for Kathy and Steve!
A bike ride through the Englisher Garten (Munich's Central Park) topped it off. As did my last fling of käsespätzle and Kaiserschmarrn.
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