Achte Tag

Day 8-Pretty much our last day to do anything else we wanted to do. We started at St Michael’s Church since this is where King Ludwig II and all the other important family members are buried.  The crypt of this church, is just full of tombs, from a babies tomb, to the elaborately decorated tomb of King Ludwig II. 

After this, we went to BMW Welt/Museum next to the Olympia Park.  The architecture on this building is pretty amazing and has the same wacky designs as the Olympiastadium itself.  BMW Welt is a working car dealership, so we kind of ignored it and went to the  BMW museum instead.  The museum was alright, and they showed all the engines they had made from their beginnings in 1919 in the aeroplane industry to their 2010 stuff.  They showed different motorcycles, different race cars, and the history of the different classes of BMW’s cars.  But it’s a very innovate looking museum, so BMW obviously had to show they can make a top class museum as well as cars. Except the gift show was terrible, and the one t-shirt there that sucked.

After this we ended up in Marienplatz, to look for somewhere to eat, preferably not German.  So we ended up at an Italian restaurant near Saint Peter’s church. It was manned by Italian waiters and stuff, so it was pretty legit. The outside area is kind of small, but the weather was perfect, but the interior of the restaurant was deceptively huge.  Some Italian construction workers came and sat by us, and the waiter looked like he was thrilled to be speaking Italian to his fellow Italians.  After this, we walked up the tower of the Saint Peter church, for the “best view” of Munich.  You get an outstanding view of the Marienplatz, and other landmarks, but if you were a little bit higher, you could see over the top of some buildings.  It still made for a great view, and showed us how far we had to travel to other locations, and how good Munich’s public transportation is since it can you get places really fast.   

We walked around Munich some more, and walked around the new Congress building (well it's actually old) and saw the Maximilian statue.  From there, we went to the Asamkirche, which isn’t that well maintained since it was privately owned but opened to the public.  The interior design here is crazy, and it was extremely decorated in there!  I did some shopping for some soccer clothes on my way back to the Marienplatz/Karlplatz, and after that, was done for the day.   

We went to the Augustiner Keller for dinner for the last time in Munich, since it is after all, the best beer in Munich.  Had a Weissbier  for dinner, and some suckling pig, and a giant pretzel to finish the night off. We ate at the restaurant side of the place, but the beer garden here is pretty damn big.  Augustiner's beer is so good, my mom even drank it And it was filled with tons of locals, who were getting off work, and drinking their steins of Augustiner edelstoff bier.