Dachau

April 4:

I woke around 8:30am and got up to close the blinds. After that I hopped on my computer before trying to head back to sleep. Though insignificant at the time, I later found out that Pat had woken up from his nap in the middle of the night and would not be able to get back to sleep till after I had closed the blinds. For my part I was unable to sleep after I had woken up and spent a few hours on my computer before Pat woke up around the noon hour. Our plan for that day was to see the Dachau concentration camp so once we got ready for the day we headed to the train station to get sausages and headed on our way.

The camp was interesting, They had some of the buildings still intact from when it was a concentration camp and had memorial plaques all over as well as a museum giving a detailed history of the events surrounding the war and the concentration camp. Words don’t really describe being at a place where, for 12 years, humans systematically lost their humanity through persecution or power. It is truly horrible but I am glad I went.

We stayed till close then headed back home. We picked up food along the way and watched tv and drank our remaining wine as we ate. After watching a bunch more tv we remembered that we still had two free shots at the hostel bar. At the bar we had a few drinks and met up with some cool Canadians, Americans and a Brazilian. When most of them went to the clubs we decided against it and instead grabbed some food. As we ate we decided to walk down to Theresienwiese, the large park in central Munich that is the staging grounds for Oktoberfest. After chilling and walking its length we headed back to the hostel.