Ice Hockey Game, Medieval Fest, and One Republic Concert

September 12-14, 2008 A random, yet very eventful weekend...Friday night was the season opener SC Riesersee Ice Hockey game! An exciting event for sure - the chants, the cheers, the flag waving, etc! and of course my favorite, the team choo-choo train after the win! This is horrible, but don't ask me who they played -- I really just go to the games for the atmosphere!

Myself, Kari, and Lisa Marie at the ice hockey game!

Saturday: Sebastian drove Terri, Traci, Charles, and I to Fussen for the big "homecoming" festival for the cows. At the end of the summer there is a parade to celebrate the cows returning to their winter pastures! If no cows from the heard died from illness or natural disaster during the summer, then the heard will be decorated with flowers!

Lead cow decorated with flowers!

More cows coming home!

Medieval fest in Partenkirchen!

lots and lots of delicious food stands!! including the "bread house"

putting shoes on the horses!

story time with puppets

papyrus

fish

one of the many decorative costumes at the fair!

band in the middle of the street

Sunday: Carrie and I took the train to Munich to wander around before our big night...ONE REPUBLIC live!! Due to an overlooked word, we mistook one train stop for another and ended up at the Oktoberfest site. So I took a few pictures of the site knowing that next time I'll see it I will not be as worried about taking pictures. Then, we found our right train stop and visited the Moderne Pinakothek. We made it just in time before the museum closed. Then, we began our adventure to meet Laura at the East Bahnhof station! We had 1/2 hour to meet her -- plenty of time! Unfortunately none of the trains were running to this station, so we had to catch a train leaving town and then come back into town. Finally, meeting up with Laura, we hurried to the concert venue and enjoyed the music of The Script, a hot Irish band! (check out their song, We Cry on YouTube!) and then saw One Republic!!! whom were way better in concert than recorded on their CD!!! Great Concert!! *This was our last outing with Laura in the Garmisch area - she just moved to Heidelberg for a position with the University of Maryland* Unfortunately, at this moment in my life I decided it was a good time to pretend to be a minimalist and didn't take my camera, which I now regret :( but the concert was amazing! The venue was pretty small - a long, skinny, rectangular room so it was a cozy group!

Below are a few pictures from the Moderne Pinakothek Museum: