Well, our last day here couldn't have been any better, even if the hockey team had won. We spent the morning shopping on the Marienplatz then visited the Dachau Concentration Camp Memorial Site. We got to see the recreated barracks that over 400 prisoners lived in at a time, which could barely fit our group of 35 inside followed by an incredibly visually draining film about Dachau which included real footage. It was certainly tough to watch and mind-boggling to think that this actually happened. Next we dropped the Basketball players off in Schwabing, a district of Munich, and headed 1 hour east to Waldkraiburg, home of Die Loewen (that's their Deutschland Eishockey League team). This was an excellent game against a good team with by far the best reffing we've seen yet. We fell 6-5 to the home team in a great game. After the game, Die Loewen game-worn jerseys were made available to us for a whopping 10 €. I think we bought up every one they had. To top it all off, the players from the team we played joined us for dinner and their 2 female goalies insisted on getting a picture with one of our goalies Danny Davies, much to his red-faced surprise.
Tomorrow morning we make our long trip home, leaving here at 10am and arriving at 3pm EST. We've all had an amazing time but are definitely looking forward to seeing all of you. The weather here is fine and we should have no problem with our flight. See you all tomorrow.
I have not seen the basketball team since we dropped them off, so unfortunately can not give an update on their game. I will ask Mr. Whittard to do so when they get back to the hotel.
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