Great weekend!

Here a great picture of the "meeting of the waters" where the Rio Solimoes and the Rio Negro meet. The first is the water from the Andes, yellow and full of mud. The second is from the rainforests, clear and black and full of alkalines. The two rivers flow alongside each other near Manaus, Brazil, and it takes almost twenty km for them to really mix.

On another note, one of the friends that we made during the trip came to Munich last weekend!

Gert, a librarian from Berlin, hadn't been to Munich in decades. We visited all of the usual touristic sites, and after visiting the Schwabinger-fest, we also went to the Unterschleissheimer Party (five years:city after being a town for 1,200 years!). We also had a great Brunch in Freising...three days were full and gone before we knew it!