Christine at the Deutsches Museum, Munchen, Germany

You can see the original U1 Submarine at the Deutsches Museum.  The whole thing.  With parts cut away so you can see what the inside is like.  This may be one of the biggest highlights of my museum touring.  Maybe not better than Rome, Italy.  But very, very close.

Deutsches Museum is the world's largest science and technology museum.  It has exhibitions on transportation (planes, trains, and automobiles), energy, toys, you name it.  A sample of the offerings:

From the toy section.

Model trains

Up close.

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Christine in Zauchensee, Austria

The best place to celebrate your winter birthday is skiing.  In the Alps.  I went back to Austria.  No castles though.   But there was a world cup run.  And I raced the Canadian.  I killed it.  And then I waited for the last portion of the hill for him.  And waited.  When he showed up, we started over and I killed it again.  I love skiing.  And winning.  As a reward, I received a "Bester Skifahrer" (Best Skier) metal.

Tram to top of World Cup Run (not open).

Bottom of World Cup Run.

Lots of people turned up Saturday to ski.  But magically, it snowed on Sunday and hardly anyone showed up.  (For the record, I don't get this at all.  I mean, it has not snowed much at all in Europe.  And the mountains barely have any snow.  So snow is a good thing.  Go ski people.)

Lunch time.  

Deer stand (I believe) on the side of a run.

Zauchensee also has a decent number of black runs.  So I had a few challenging runs.  Which I loved.

And a little church on the road.

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