nymphenburg castle and johannes work place

 these first few pics are of the castle and its grounds including the botanical gardens, the castle was so big i couldnt get it all into one picture

the castle was full of ducks and swans

 this is only the main part of the castle it still has sides connected

 this is johannes work

 the bistro at his work....

 his action shot of him coming out of his office

cant find a parking spot? park on the sidewalk......

Things that are wonderful about munich

so slowly i have been figuring out munich, i have the trains down pretty good and im able to get around with little to no german just fine,(but im still trying to learn). So this week i have learned that having a child in germany if you or your partner is working out here you get a monthly child support, which for having one child you get 184 euros per month, then the more children you have the more you get per child per month, our friends have 4 children and they get 700 euros per month, i cant believe it, and if i were to have a work visa or work out here then i get 4 years paid time off with full pay the 1st year and up 80 percent the other 3. And all of our medical is free and we went to the peditrican today just to meet her and sat in on our friends 3 month old appt and they took better care of him then our dr did of sophie in the states and she also offered to look at sophie in the same appt if i was worried about her being sick or anything! then right after the appt we walked over to a school that offers mommie and me groups where you pay 2.50 euros per day that you want to go and they teach them games and songs in german french and english and that way i can also meet moms with children my age and sophie can meet friends as well then after the playdate they have a cafe where you can get tea or cofffe and chat with the moms while the children play, so all of this is such a huge relief to me because i worry about every thing that has to do with sophie so now that she has a good doctor with a good healthcare system and somewhere to have fun i can breathe a little easier. Then we also found out that the apartment that we are living in you can sign up on a waiting list and they will call you when an appartment opens up you pay a fee of 2000 euros which is like a damages fee and you make interest off of that per year and you get an apartment right in munich for half the cost of the normal apartments and then when you move you get the 2000 euros back. so we will sign up for that and stay with rosemarie until we can get that apartment, which is great because rent here is sooooo cheap and we are able to save lots and soon buy a car cash for johannes deployments. so things are turning out wonderful here and we are able to have lots of help from the people around us which im super grateful for!!!!

my life daily

 the streets around johannes work

 a park garden that i ran into while wondering the streets

 then there was this huge statue waterfall right in the middle of the gardens these pictures dont really capture its beauty

 just a random circle on the side of the road

 another building at marineplatz

 park at marineplatz

 this is what you see when you get off the elevator at johannes work its such a cool workplace completely decorated like this i didnt want to be annoying and take pics of the whole place so i just got these but trust me the whole officce is so zen

Saturday at the zoo and city fun

 My hood.

 Uhm you'd never see this in America. Bunch of sticks piled up with a super steep slide at the top. Lawsuit waiting to happen,.....

 Gambling at the zoo. When you lose it's a donation to the zoo. We lost 3 times,....

 Sweet church crammed in the middle of a tiny building in Munich.

 My new ride. Big pimpin!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 Peace rally in Lederhosen,... Really just drunk guys lining up for free hugs from a hot chick,....

 Plates on the ceiling.

 Apfelstrudel. YUM!

Sophie enjoying a coaster a little too much. Can you say Alcoholic? and lets not even get started on how i look ugh!