Today we didn't do much. We slept pretty late, or at least I did, and then headed out around noon on a walk to the train station in Freising. It didn't take too long to get there and the station is a lot nicer than I thought it would be. We found the track for the S bahn line and then I had to figure out the German ticket machine. Yeah that was pretty difficult since I know like no German. But I figured something out and got a partner ticket for three zones. We had to wait quite a while for the next train, so I was playing with the ticket machine to see what I'll have to get for my travels the rest of the week. Then I realized that we didn't exactly have the right ticket since Freising is like four zones from Munich or something really confusing. So I bought another ticket to cover what we didn't have and soon after that our train showed up. It took pretty long to get into the city because of all the stops along the way, but we finally got to the Marienplatz which is the main tourist area of the city. Coming out of the subway it was so cold and wet, miserable. I was starving so we just headed to the first place we saw. The food and service was good, I had currywurst, and after that we walked around the pedestrian shopping areas. Everything was closed because it was Sunday so there was pretty much nothing to do. We stopped in a couple churches that I saw last time and then we found a starbucks. After that it started snowing, really wet yucky snow, so we decided to just give up and start heading back to Freising. We got down to the S bahn track but there weren't any trains listed going to Freising, so we took a train on the same line going the opposite way thinking we could just ride it until it turned around. Yeah, apparently you couldn't do that on this train and some train guy yelled at us that we had to get off here. Oh well, at least the next train to Freising was there right away, only it was two tracks away. So we had to quickly run down under the tracks and run up to the right track and jump on. Then we thought everything was fine till we find out that the train splits before Freising and the back half goes to the airport. Of course we're on the back half, so at the last stop before the split we had to get off and run to the front section and get on, while everyone with luggage ran to the back. We finally got back to Freising and walked around downtown a bit before heading back to the hotel. It's a cute town that seems to have a lot going on, too bad nothing is open on Sunday! So we go back to the hotel and just veg out for a bit. Then Dad's coworker Mike arrives and our group goes to dinner at some place off the town square. I guess that's about it, didn't really do much today, just trying to get the lay of the land so hopefully I'll be able to understand what's going on tomorrow when I have to go it alone...
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