Today the boys are heading from Ellwangen to Munich. Google says it's about 2 hours on the road.
Now, first off... Wikipedia is telling me that there's two places in Germany known as Munich. One of them is northeast of Nuremberg. I'm going to assume it's the big one near the alps. A population of about 1.5 million people, it really is pretty big. Hennepin county has a population of 1.1 million but has nearly 3 times the area. Imagine how dense it is there! In Hennepin county, it's about 2,000 people in every square mile. In Munich, it's 12,470 per square mile!
The wiki page is pretty complete with pictures. Instead of linking to them all here, I suggest just checking out the wiki page today. The German wiki page has some pictures the English one doesn't.
Panorama #1
Panorama #1
I'll just link to the picture-map overlay again since there's so many pictures to wade through... but here's a couple that I thought were interesting:
Inside a Cathedral
Part of their Olympic park
Castle Haimhausen
The contact address for today is in a town just outside of Munich called Eichenau.
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My Hoffenheim relatives went to the concert in Ellwangen yesterday, so they could relax while listening this time. They also brought with them sundry items that had been left behind by the boys, and a number of letters from guest families for “our boys” as my aunt said.
The church was totally full (180-200 people), and the audience again was enchanted by the boys’ performance. They were singing in 35 degree C. weather (95 F). My aunts talked with quite a few people from Ellwangen and said the boys hit it off again with their host families.
“Christian and Jeremiah are inseparable friends [I am wondering how you distinguish that from inseparable tour partners!]. We sat for ½ hr of the rehearsal in the back of the church, when suddenly Christian noticed us and his whole face beamed. He was especially proud to receive the letter from you, and we also had a letter from [their host family] for Jeremiah and Christian. Both were totally surprised. Gradually the rest of the boys recognized us. All are very warm [literally, “clinging”] and very, very loving. This morning they were going to sing a few songs again in the Stiftskirche and then go on to Munich.
“Each day we think of the Choirboys, who do a hard but also very beautiful job…When the group was in Hoffenheim one of the boys got a package of Harribo [the original brand] Gummi-bears from his guest family. We soon noticed that everyone swarmed around Hafid to get some from him. Hafid showed himself this day to be a king! When we talked to him yesterday again about the Harribo Gummi-bears, he beamed and his face told us that they tasted wonderful. So Annemarie and I bought Harribo Gummi-bears for all of them and today on the ride to Munich Christian can share these with them all. The boys all greet their parents heartily and are doing well.”
My aunts have said repeatedly that people in Hoffenheim keep calling them and thanking them for bringing the boys there. Many have never experienced this kind of concert before, and all were enchanted by the music and the boys. “It was the event of the year for this small town,” they said. The guest families especially “took the boys to heart.” All have raved about how friendly and well-behaved they were, and that they brought the families only pleasure. Last week my aunt wrote, “Now a bit of heart-sickness has set in among the families, that we simply miss the boys.” So—greetings and gratitude from Hoffenheim. I know you love to hear this stuff, as we do!
A choir mom tipped me off that there was an article on the youth soccer team’s website (www.tsg-junior-kicker.de) about the Choirboys’ visit, and I see that my note back to the coach is also on there. I told them, “Now Hoffenheim is also known and loved in this corner of the world--and not because of soccer!”
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