A Trip to A Transportation Museum - Munich, Germany

In early November, the couples and senior sisters were invited to a two-day conference in Munich to be taught and to relax a bit. We caught an early train and took a 4-1/2 hour ride to Munich, arriving there about 12:30 p.m. We lunched quickly with a sandwich from the train station and then traveled to a "Transportation Museum" for a tour. Elder Winters (from Star Valley) said that the women always choose shopping or something where the men just tag along, so he decided this tour would be for the men--so we had a fun several-hour, self-guided tour of about everything on wheels from the very first wheel!!

This snail must represent something to do with transportation, but we don't know what--it was just outside the museum and seemed to be a star attraction!

This little dandy represents one of the first "street cars." Pretty fun.

These others I won't even begin to describe. They each had an explanation of who created them and how long they lasted on the road, but I'll just let you scroll down and see some of what we saw...

Safe?? I don't think so!

The new versus the old, except the old is so shiny and spruced up that it doesn't look all that old!

This car makes one wonder in which direction it is traveling. One seat faces toward the front, the other toward the rear, and the car itself looks like it could divide in half and go either direction.

One of the original Volkswagens. Ugly color, ya? I kind of prefer the bright yellows and greens they make nowadays!

Rather snazzy!

Altitude sickness?

That sort of sums up the museum, although I took a thousand more pictures (I don't know for the life of me why I took so many), but the men seemed to enjoy the looking, and the sisters enjoyed the gabbing.

That evening we went to the Mission Home for a lovely meal, and then we had a meeting where much info was shared by all the seniors and the president and his wife. President and Sister Condie are only about 55 years old, so they seem REALLY young!! With the exception of a couple who works in the mission office and one who is in charge of military relations, the other couples all worked in the various Outreach Centers throughout Southern Germany and Austria. I learned so much from them. And then, of course, we enjoyed our two Hawaiian senior sisters who are working here in Wien with us in the Outreach Center as well as working with less actives and finishing the mission history for 2009.

We went to our hotels after that, got up for breakfast the next morning at a stake center/outreach center, and then we got busy with workshops and visiting. Ate a quick lunch of leftover breakfast, ran for our trains, and got home about 6:00 p.m. that night. Rushed, but really worthwhile. Easy people to love!