Great few days in Munich!

Friday was busy for me.  In the morning I was about 45 minutes outside Munich at the Sandoz offices.  Great people and great facility.  The train, tram, and bus system here is extremely easy to use, so getting out to the meeting and back was a breeze.  Also, everyone speaks English and the people here are SUPER helpful and nice.  In the afternoon I visited The Medicines Company.  If you've never heard of them, look them up.  Really inspiring vision and product line and I think our firms will work really well together. I'm looking forward to showing them!

Eric and the kids went to the Munich zoo.  They loved it!

After we were both done, we hit St. Augustine beer garden for more big beers and greasy food.  This was our favorite beer garden in Munich.  It's a must visit! 

I have eaten more pork product this week then I have in the entire last year!  Here are some pictures for St. Augustine:

My dinner, if you can believe it!

LOVE these big beers!

Maddy polishing off a plate of ribs

Beer number 2!

We are staying at the Munich City Hilton. They deserve a shout out.  The breakfast is amazing and included and we have an executive room, so we get access to a business lounge with free drinks and good all day.  Even wine and beer in the afternoon. This has been a super treat and if your coming to Munich, I highly recommend this place.

Kids at breakfast:

Today is Saturday and we had several people recommend a visit to Marionplatz, the market, and the Chinese beer garden, so we did all three.  The market was amazing and if I lived here, I'd go daily. 

This is the church in Marilnplatz.  

Upon each hour, the bells toll and these little statue dancers start moving in the center tower.  Very cool to see.

These are some pics of the market.  They have all these water spouts to refill your bottles with and they are adorned with flowers, so pretty.

We also stopped in at this surprising church in the center:

After lots of food, we decided to walk to the Chinese beer garden, which is in the English Garden.  I actually thought we were in the English garden the other day and it turns out, we were in a completely different spot.

The English garden is amazing and I wish we could have spent more time.  There are 2 rivers that run through it and they form these rapids and in a way, it's like the Rhine swimming in Basel, but the water moves much faster and there are bumps and twists.  It looked like so much fun and there were hundreds of people in the water.

The Chinese beer garden is in the middle of the garden and it was really cool, we stayed for a quick beer, ice cream and a few minutes to play on the playground.  The kids were tired, the walk there was close to 2 miles!

And I had to post this, when we got back to the hotel, the kids wanted one more trip to the exec lounge and they insisted that they wear Jammie's and slippers and it was a very funny sight in the hallways: