What's better than spending your 35th birthday with your wife and two best friends? NOT MUCH! This day we would be celebrating JD! JD chose his Keystone Light shirt to wear on this special vacation - what says European vacation better than a Keystone Light shirt straight out of Macomb, IL. We started our day of JD with breakfast at the hotel around 8:30. Our first stop planned was at St. Peters Church which is right in the heart of Munich. We got there a little after 9 and the Wednesday morning mass was in session. We were shushed by a church worker and quietly walked around the back of the church during mass. This was after I got in trouble for walking up the side of the church. With that we decided to come back after church was out. During our wait we did a little light shopping. I found 4 small paintings from a painter that had set up an outdoor shop right outside of the church. The painter was a nice guy who had spent several years in Key West.
We made our way to the town center to watch the Glockenspiel chimes and after the show was over we made our way back to the church. We toured the church and found some very interesting sites including the skeleton of a woman in a glass case from 310 AD - we were all pretty amazed by this.
From here we would go to the only logical place for lunch and a beer - Hofbrau House!! The last time I had been at this place was when I was 16 years old with my high school German Club. I loved it even more the second time! We had our lunch - sausage and spaetzel and a liter of beer! While we waited for our food I even was able to re-create some classic pictures of my friend Tara from the first time we were at the Hofbrau Hause. From our epic lunch we headed back to our hotel for naps - a MUST on JDs birthday!
After naps we made our way to the English Garden. This is a big park similar to the size of New York's Central Park. This happen to be the warmest day of our trip - in the mid 80's. The English Garden has a really cool river that runs through it. The water is crystal clear, cool and the current is FAST! We didn't see it on this particular day but there is even a spot where they can SURF! Given the warm weather the park was PACKED with people. Students, families and everything in between. People were wading and floating in the river - it really was something that we had never seen before! We found our way to the Chinese Tower Beer garden - a huge beer garden in the heart of the English Garden. This would be by far the largest beer garden we saw and had beers in - people everywhere! On the way back to the train we stopped to put our feet in the water and enjoy the sunshine - it really was an incredible day!
Once back by our hotel we decided to have a low key dinner at a little Italian restaurant and each had pizza - the boys had a VERY hot chilli sauce that left everyone sweating after trying a little! After dinner we decided we hadn't had enough Hofbrau House so we headed back for one last beer - and shut the place down! It closes fairly early - around 11pm. We ended our night once again at Little London with several scotch drinks to close out JD's birthday celebration. It was an amazing day - perfect weather, perfect city and perfect company!
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