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:: Friday, March 14, 2003 ::

Hello all!
We got back from Germany yesterday, so now I can get back to the Blog.
We had a great time by the way, did loads of touristy stuff in and around Munich, visited a bunch of Mad King Ludwig II's castles etc. The funniest thing that happened was on the tour of one of these castles, we were in "the hall of mirrors", basically a large rooms with large mirrors on every wall, and one particularly stupid old American woman asks the guide, "so what's behind the mirrors, how do they make it look like it goes on forever?" !!!!!!!!!!!
The guide tried to explain that there was nothing behind the mirror and she was seeing a reflection of the opposite mirror reflecting the first mirror again ad infinitum. She still didn't understand and he tried explaining that you can see this effect in other places, on escalators or in hotel lobbies to make them look bigger for instance. "?" He then made the mistake of saying you could even do it in your own home with two mirrors. "What? How would you do that? How big would the mirrors have to be to make it look like it goes on forever? Where would I have to put them?" Amanda had to physically restrain me at this point....
Other than that we had a good time.

:: Dan 14.3.03 [Arc]    ::
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