Week 12: Olympics and Salzy!
Trip Start
May 26, 2008
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Trip End
Oct 01, 2008
Munich,
Germany
Monday, August 18, 2008
Cary was nice enough this week to give us his extra key to his apartment (at least until his girlfriend gets here on Wednesday.) So, on Wednesday Ryan and I finally got to watch the Olympics! So, after Ryan and I helped with a small baseball camp in Gauting, we headed over to Cary's to watch some tv. We did the same thing all day Friday, and it's been awesome. We just hung out here all day with Cary and we'd bet on the scores of women's gymnastics
A "couple" beers at Austiner
. It was funny because none of us has any idea how they score the sport. But we guessed based on old scores and had to guess to the nearest hundredth. I was even right on once!On Saturday, Ryan's team played Haar. It was fun watching a game where I knew people on both teams. Haar won the first game 6-4. Both teams had a couple really nice hits, but Haar had more hits at the right time. The second game went to Gauting, but it's how they won that's interesting.
It was the bottom of the 9th , the score was 1-1 and Gauting had their last ups before extra innings. The young German pitcher for Haar had been doing really well, but walked the first batter, so he was pulled. In his place was a guy from the Dominican who supposedly used to be really good, but all I had heard about him was he was really wild. And what do you know, the first pitch was wild and the runner got to 2nd. That batter was walked. Next batter, there was another wild pitch to have runners on 2nd and 3rd. Then the coach decided to intentionally walk the batter. The pitcher goes to throw it right to the catcher, and he sails it over his head. The run scored and that was the game. Yet another crazy loss for the Haar baseball/softball club.
Gauting & Haar
Both teams were a bit baffled by the games, but everyone was still in a pretty good mood (except for that pitcher, especially because that was his last game.) So, we all decided to go out that night. From Haar there was me, Sarah, Caren, Nate (a catcher from NY), and Clemens (a pitcher from Austria.) From Gauting, it was Ryan, Seth (Sarah's boyfriend, who's also from CA,) Matt (a pitcher from NY,) Dave (a really good hitter from the states too), Dave's brother, and Cary. It was a big group, but we had a lot of fun. We started out at the Augustiner in Marienplatz, which was a traditional Bavarian place, then we all headed to an Australian pub. There was a lot of drinking and dancing, and we all had a good time ... and everyone forgot about the games.
Sunday was an awesome day, even though we got to a sleepy start. Earlier in the week, Seth had asked me and Ryan if we'd show him around Salzburg. Of course, we said yes. So we left around 11 and spent most of the day there. We showed them around Mirabell Gardens (from the Sound of Music), the old city, and even the Monchsberg and where we lived. We showed them our favorite parts of the city too: kasekrainers (cheese-filled sausages), the Aug (an amazing beer garden/hall run by monks), Il Sole (the Italian restaurant we frequented), and Murphy's (our favorite Irish pub.) We were full and very sleepy on the way home, but we had had a great day. Seth was even the first one to say we should come back. You know I'll be back!
That's all for this week! I hope everything is well for everyone and I'll write again soon!
