Today started early with breakfast at 7:00. Mike wanted to get his treatments in early and out of the way so we would have the rest of the day to do something. He had his usual Thimus injection, the bio mat, oxygen therapy, magnetic field therapy, localized hyperthermia, and some sort of vibrating bed treatment.
We then had lunch which was chicken breast in a yellow creamy sauce with celery, paprika vegetables, and potatoes, The dessert was ice cream "Vienna". It was a slice of vanilla ice cream with a thin chocolate coating layer in between the ice cream layers.
After lunch Lindy, Christy, Chris, Mike, and I walked 25 minutes to Flintsbach to catch the train to go to Rosenheim for the Beer Festival. There we met a woman who was born and lived in the states for 14 years who helped us with our ticket purchase from the machine. We had to stand on the train as it was packed with a lot of late teens to young adults headed to the festival as well. Chris decided that with all the young people, he was going to be a party pooper and get back on the train to come back to Flintsbach where he could go to the pub and have a beer or two in quite. The girls were all dressed in very colorful Bavarian dresses with low cut tops that had their cleavage pushed up and basically falling out of the top of their dresses. The boys were dressed in the Bavarian shorts with suspenders and the socks. Some wore the German hats. After we got off the train, we wanted to hail a taxi. We had been told by the masseuse here at the clinic that the taxi ride should be no more than 4 euros. When we asked the driver how much the fee would be to take us about a mile, he told us 55 euros. Needless to say, we decided to walk. We then ran into the same woman from the train station. We asked her about the 55 euro charge, and she told us the driver was trying to rip us off. We were not quite sure where we were going so we just followed the masses of people dressed up in their Bavarian outfits.
We were told that the beer tent here is the largest beer tent in the world. We went insidr. It was filled with rows of tables. It was completely filled. We just walked in to see what it looked like and what was going on inside. It was very warm and noisy. We left the tent and started walking around. It seemed like the Bloomsburg Fair. There were many, many rides for the kids and grownups and food stands. We stopped at one of the stands and Christy and Lindy got a glass of champagne and Mike got a German beer. These drinks were put into actual glassware, and they had to pay 2 euros as a deposit for the glass. Once they were done, they turned in their tickets and got their 2 euros back. I purchased a German soft pretzel and a glass bottle of lite Pepsi.
We made our way back to the train station. We weren't sure if the train that was waiting at the platform was the correct one to bring us back to Brannenburg. Luckily we had a woman who spoke English tell us that this was the train we needed to get on, She was headed back to Brannenberg as well.
We got back to the clinic just in time for dinner which consisted of potato pancakes with apple sauce. The potato pancakes seemed to me to just be like hashbrowns. The applesauce had a different consistency than back home. They also had fresh fruit available, We had a new arrival today from Tasmania. His name is Mike and he was originally from Rhode Island, He has prostate cancer just recently diagnosed on July 30th. He is scheduled to only be here for a week. Currently there are more English speaking people here having treatment than any other foreign language. We are now back in our room for the night just taking it easy before bed. I needed to get this blog in before handing this notebook over to Mike so he can play games on the computer. And he said we did not need to have this with us! I only wish I had thought to bring the cord for my camera to see if I could upload pictures . Oh well, will post them when we get home.
Good Night
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