290KPH? P’shaw! (17/01/26-19/01/26)

Friday was a quiet shabbat filled with a real, 6 person round of Settler’s of Catan! Fights, yelling, bartering, and some drinks made this feel like a family shabbos!

For Shabbat we again visited Nuremberg, we davened, JP’s buddy David showed us around kiddush, we ate, we drank, we said our goodbyes, and got home.

After shabbos we took Mayrav to the best Italian restaurant in Kitzingen, and had another lovely experience with our friends there! 1 gut-busting meal later, we rolled home, and stopped at the Alte Schul (old synagogue), and they were hosting a live music event, so we talked to the manager and her daughter (who was tending bar), and then made our way home.

Early the next morning, somehow JP woke Mayrav up, and they walked all the way to Buchbrunn (about 3KM away), where they choked a chicken, met some dogs, found some crazy walking paths, got back, took the family on a long walk of Kitzengen, and JP saw the worlds smallest car…this thing is so adorable, he just keeps saying, “pit stop”

Monday was a day off from school and work. We decided, let’s take a long train ride to München (Munich for y’all back home). The dogs also were coming because it was going to be a 15 hour day before we were done, and most of Europe is actually pretty chill with your dogs doing stuff with you. The normal 1-hour ride to Nuremberg, then the ICE (the only acceptable use of that acronym these days, which stands for the inter-city express) to München!

Walking around, we found a playground, a large courthouse, one of the demigorgons, a brass fish to shove your head into, and the largest Lush in Germany (this place is multiple floors and has its own coffee shop and some weird exhibit that if you touch the soaps, music plays).

Funnily enough, JP actually ditched everyone to find a bathroom (rare, but it happened that he needed to go more than everyone else), and he found a little bar where he promised to buy a beer if they let him use the bathroom. Of course, he got a beer, had a lovely conversation, and found us at Lush. Meanwhile, we (all the ladies) found that Lush had its own bathroom.

Ha!

Leaving Lush we toured a large gothic place, bought olives stuffed with various things, saw amazing statues and carvings, played with some monkeys, watched folks drink water straight from the fountain,visited the ViktualMarkt to buy some olives, and sat at a table with a real zen garden in the table!

After lunch we walked past, but forewent the opportunity to climb, the oldest and tallest church in town, St Peter’s!. We did walk almost straight into the the gothic remnants of Marianplatz, and JP raced Avital up 4 flights of glorious spiral stairs, straight into a government building.

That’s ok, just play it cool, nobody will ask why we were wandering the halls.

Here JP also captured several bas-reliefs of dragons.

A LOT OF DRAGONS.

Holy wow, walking is exhausting, but there’s so much to see!

At the Opera House, a massive statue our girls insisted on posing for, and then into Residenz Museum (well, at least the courtyard).

We found a Mercedes coffee shop with a trippy bathroom. Seriously, mirrors everywhere, and neon lights changing colors. In the corner there was a sticker: like and subscribe…,

Outside the coffee shop was the clock store, and around the corner we found. another. piano. store.

A Steinway piano store.

You guessed it, JP HAD to play another one.

And then the holocaust memorial site.

This took some time to process, and we decided to visit the mall next door for a little levity. Sadly, nothing in there was of much interest, and we decided to make our way to an infamous vegan Bavarian restaurant, Bodhi!

Wow! Just Wow!

First, they let dogs into restaurants here. Really. Very. Unique.

Second, we ate up a storm!

So much amazing, authentic, Bavarian food!

Several drinks, fights/arguments/namecallings/dispute resolutions, and main courses later, we were ready to hike back to the train and head home!