Breif catchup

I've been slacking a bit on the posts, so here's a brief recap from several days ago when we went to the museums.

Public transportation in Munich, much like most places outside of the states, is top notch.  I think if we had better PT in the states, more people would use it.  It was very easy (and cheap) to use to get around and this is how we got out to the BMW museum to start our day.  We actually ended up walking around "BMW World" which is a beautiful building.  I'll have to post some pictures to show it off, because I don't think i can describe it.

We arrived at the perfect time.  Just as we walked in there was a bmx stunt performance happening in the building.  The rider would go around the main floor, then up and down stair cases, and across the second floor gangway.  All the while popping up on his front and real wheel.. this was really impressive while going down the stairs!  At the end, he actually went too far and fell off his bike.  Luckily, this was while on the 1st floor and not while going down the stairs.  He was fine and did a few more laps after that so he could finish on a high note.  I walked by the spot of the fall afterward and say a chip in the floor, so this was definitely not staged to be part of the act.

Since this was a general BMW experience, they also provide a plant tour and an actual BMW museum.  We didn't feel the need to do the full museum experience, but thought the plant tour would have been interesting.  The English speaking plant tours were full until much later in the day, so we had to pass so we could make the science/tech museum.  So back to the subway!

We desperately tired to find someplace to find some brats and beer for lunch, but had a difficult time on the way to the museum.  After one last attempt around another block we found and jack-of-all-trade lunch sport which was really good.  Gabrielle was able to get gluten free salad.  Kirstyn was able to get a light soup, and Nick and i were able to get curry wurst and wiener schnitzel... and of course beer :)

The museum is immense and we were running out of time to see it all.  So our stay there was pretty speedy, but we did get a chance to power through the whole thing.  There was a good variety of things to see and the aviation section was particularly interesting.  They had one of the first jet planes used near the end of WWII on display as well as an early model by the Wright Brothers.

We saw some very interesting thing on the map (like a bio/nano tech section) that we were trying to find.  It was a bit difficult because none of the signs in the building pointed to the section and all we knew was that we had to find the basement.  We eventually found the basement, but it was full of nautical models, which was still really cool.  We then realized that the museum is going to be under renovation and a bunch of new exhibits will being going up in November... including the ones we were looking for!  At least we solved the mystery of way we couldn't find them!

We finished up the day/night back at our favorite beer garden/hall, the Augustiner, which was once again great.  We found out that the beer we had there was being served out of wooden barrels!  We think that's one of the reasons it tasted so good.  After the barrel ran dry for the day, we were able to keep drinking inside the beer hall and drink from their normal taps.  We could definitely taste a difference, but obviously it was still good.