The game was good, we didn't win, but it was still a fun game. The first half we had lots of hope. It was a high scoring game, so there was a lot of energy. 
We didn't sit in our assigned seats because there wasn't much room, so we found our own seats. We were surrounded by both BYU and Tulsa fans (mostly Tulsa though), but we some how drove all the Tulsa fans away, because we were so loud... oops. :) 
By the end of the game, we were so tired. 
It really was sad that we lost, because on top of it being sad for the obvious reason, we were the minority in Tulsa territory...which is always awkward when you didn't win and people want to shove it in your face. It wasn't too bad, but still... The game ended up being four hours long and didn't get over until midnight, so we stayed the night in Tulsa at a cheap hotel. There was a special treat for us there though:
Check out this golden hurricane! So funny...We went to sacrament meeting this morning there and then drove to the Oklahoma City Temple since Bailey, Becky or Sister Manion had never been.
Then we continued to Texas. I got home at a little after 7 p.m. What a short, long fun trip...
The first thing we did in Munich, is try to find our hostel so we could get rid of all our luggage. We couldn't find it. After about an hour we gave up and we took a taxi. Interestingly, all the taxis in Germany are Mercedes. It was really different from anything here or even NYC... I was so grateful to finally make it to the hostel, because I had already gotten a blister and rubbed it raw, so I put on another pair of socks. The whole time, I wore two pair trying to minimize blisters... After going to the hostel and dumping all of our stuff, we hit the town. It was a little drizzly and kind of chilly, but after the 100+ degree heat of Texas, it felt so wonderful!
I don't really know what any of these buildings are, but we just took the pictures... 
From the very beginning of planning the trip, Magen would send me messages saying, "I can't wait for you to try..." It was all about the food and trying the different cuisine there. Magen loves cheese strudels so that is what she is eating (They're good, but have really gross raisins in them that you have to pick out.) and Brooke had a chocolate mousse. She got it all over her and we joked that it was the mousse that kept on giving... :)
After walking around for a while, we found this nice garden to take pictures in. I experienced my first naked statue. It was really the first of hundreds... 
There were so many people on bikes around the city... I really liked this picture.
After leaving the park, we came across this arch, but like most things I took pictures of, I don't know the name of it. 
And I really like signs...
On our second day in Munich, we took a tour to the Dachau concentration camp. When I tell people I went to a concentration camp, most people wonder why I would go, but really when ever I think of Germany, I think of WWII stuff, so it seemed like is should be a part of the Germany experience. Since we paid the 17 euro to go on a tour. I learned a lot of things and I am glad I went. Dachau is the first ever concentration camp in the system, opening in 1933 official as the first concentration camp for political prisoners. In total, over 200,000 prisoners from more than 30 countries were housed in Dachau of which nearly one-third were Jews. Officially, 25,613 prisoners are believed to have died in the camp, however that number is believed to be lower than the actual number because certain groups, like homosexuals, were not recognized by the government at the time and therefore not included in the numbers. The actual number is estimated to be about 44,000 to 55,000. When the camp first opened up, since it was for political prisoners and it was publicly said to be a way to reeducate these people, a lot of the prisoners were let go, however some were still killed.
One of the first things we were asked when we got there was how many concentration camps there were. I guessed about 20. I was shocked to learn that there were over 1,500 known concentration camps in the system. We were shown this map with marks representing every camp. 
After the prisoners arrived at Dachau, all personal items were taken from them. Some of those items have survived and are preserved in cases. Seeing these pictures really personifies what happened there because I now have a face in my memory and not just the label "the prisoners."
We were taken through a building that was used to imprison some of the people in the concentration camp. 
The rooms were dark and divided up into three sections, so small that they couldn't lay down or stand up. They would only be fed one meal a day and be left in these little prisons for days at a time. 
The barracks that held the prisoners were destroyed about ten years after the war because most of those who were liberated were still living there because they had no where else to go. There are two that have been reconstructed to show visitors what they looked like. 
These are the bed from the first few years of the concentration camp. Notice the shelves and the separators...
As time went on, the beds got smaller and less nice... 
This is a picture that was taken at the time of liberation. Each barrack was made for 203 people. A couple weeks before liberation there were as many as 2,097 people in one barrack. Notice all the people in one bed and the condition of the barrack... 
The camp was surrounded by barbed wire and electrical fences. There were also 10 meter deep trenches dug and towers with snipers in them to prevent anyone from escaping. 
Since people would ask questions if there was bodies being brought out of the camp, the dead were cremated. It was built in the summer of 1940, after the foreign prisoners arrived and the mortality rate greatly increased. A year later it was already working beyond capacity and another, larger, one was constructed to replace it three years later. About 11,000 people were cremated here.
This is the statue of the free prisoner build in memorial of the 30,958 people who were at Dachau when it was liberated. The german translates: "To honor the dead and to remind the living." 
There are also two other memorials there:
I'm really am glad I got the chance to go here, but well, what do you say? It is so sad the amount of people that died here -- how they died here. This is prejudice at its worse...
One reason I was really excited to come home is on Tuesday The Office season 3 came out. So, I just got back from buying it at WalMart. Yep, that's right. After waking up at 4:45 a.m. in Salzburg (that's 9:45 p.m. here in Texas), taking a train to Munich, taking a 8.5 hour plane to Philadelphia, a two hour lay over and a 3.5 hour flight to DFW with only about a four hour nap throughout the course of the two flights, I went to buy The Office instead of going to bed. I am utterly exhausted, but I just had to see the pilot. I've been waiting all summer. I didn't watch the show until I came home from school and Heather had season 1 and 2 on DVD, so I haven't seen any of season 3. I'm so excited, but so tired...