Day Forty-Four: A Dancing Duck

7/29/15, 8:29 PM CET

If you had unlimited wealth and power, what would you do? If you answered something like "help the needy" or "save it for a rainy day," you'd be choosing the most logical answer. It's also the more boring answer, in my opinion.

It's a good thing that the German royalty weren't either of those things, because with their endless influence and resources, they created GIANT FUCKING HOUSES.

I mean they were quite large, not that they were literally big brothels.

Welcome to the Residenz Munich, where Germany's royalty lived from 1385 all the way up to 1918 With an area approximately nine billion square meters and over five thousand rooms to get lost in, the Residenz is designed to ensure that German royalty never has to endure stepping on poor, non-marble peasant ground ever again.

But now that it's a museum, it is the peasants that get exclusive access to the palace. And we peasants had fun.

If by "fun" you mean "pretended we had this amount of wealth, then yes.

Joby certainly liked it too.

Silverware, except it's gold. So it's... goldware?

"Everybody say 'M.C. Escher!"

"Oh fox, you so silly."

Afterwards, we went to a traditional German restaurant, traditional because all of the waiters wore lederhosen!

This is from Google Images since I didn't get
any pics of them, but it was basically like this.

Continuing with the traditional German environment, we decided to order another German Classic: the Apple strudel.

Just wait, in a few years, they'll come out with an Apple Strudel 2S or something.

My previous experiences with Apple strudel consisted only of the rectangular, vaguely-breadlike shit that Pillsbury expects you to shove in a toaster, which meant that I came into this dessert with low expectations. But much like the cannibalistic version of Sleeping Beauty, when I took my first bite, I fell in love.


Another famous thing that the Germans have is this giant mechanical clock they have on a building called the "Glockinspiel." Today, the Glockinspiel had a performance at 11 AM, noon, and 5 PM, and we were lucky enough to not only catch the 5 PM show, but we had a pretty good view.

So I filmed the whole thing.

Yeah, it wasn't exactly Cirque du Soleil. But then again, it is pretty impressive considering the size of those figurines, the fact that the thing is autonomous, and the fact that it was made A HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

But this thing, however, was probably made this year. And it is infinitely more impressive.

RFotD: I believe the thing dancing in the video above is a "Wolpertinger."