Europe Day 2 (Tuesday)

The three of us probably slept a combined 4-5 hours Monday night so Tuesday started at a crisp 4:30am… at least for ryan and I. We tried to go back to sleep at around 5:00 just on account of our own self preservitory tendencies but snoring bitch was having none of it. Woke up around 7 and had our 3.90 (euro) breakfast that consisted of meat, foul coffee, lots of oj, swiss and cheddar cheese , lots of jams and chocolate sauces… you know … different sort of breakfast but… edible for the price. Note, dipper last to get up.

Although we knew from the start that getting through the day was going to be rough, we had no idea how bad it would actually be. We went to Viktualienmarkt which is a reasonable sized farmers market of sorts that is the absolute opposite of ‘touristy.’ Spent time wandering around and looking at wares. Lots of non English speaking germanish stuff going on. Very few of vendors spoke more than a dozen word English. Isn’t culture fun. We spent some time discovering how to ask questions that may, at least at a glance, make us look less like American dbags without a clue. I think we almost mastered how to ask if someone speaks English. Our pronunciation needs work. Note: Germans seem on the whole less overly poite than the English or our folk state side (even superficially)

They had huge numbers of very interesting looking spreads and meats here. Possibly will sample later. German food note: Raw fish and onion sandwich with skin on.
From here we decided to take a shot at getting our BMW tour early. As ryan is picking up his car on Wednesday, we initially thought we would do it then but why not give it a shot? The BMW factory is in across the street from Olympiapark the home of the 1972 olympic games. Huge building, very modern, have pictures. Tons of gorgeous cars. Spooge.
Highlight #1. Premium lounge. Lounge available to people doing Euro delivery on their BMWs. Pretty exclusive shit. Free food. Free all. Had two meals here. Tons of coffee. Countless sodas. Only possible improvement. Beer.

Had to wait for the 1:30 tour, Premium lounged it for nearly 2 hours. Ballin’ out of control.
Tour over two hours. We had several fade in and out moments due to extreme exhaustion. Overall, very impressive. Car building robots, bloody amazing. Car painting robots, impressive. Robots. Badass.

Note from Ryan: From a mechanical engineers perspective, these robots (specifically the assembly line ones) were a real thing of beauty. The speed, precision, and dexterity of these machines is something you can really only comprehend when you see it. Massive arms probably extending 20+ feet with several twisting and rotating joints in between made moving these giant steel car parts look like nothing. Now picture countless of these robots working in series perfectly choreographed like a dance. Amazing.

No pictures inside of factory but it was definitely something to behold. After tour, made an attempt to caffeine up a bit more at the ‘premium lounge.’ We were insanely insanely tired so this was the only means of survival at this point. Caught an early glimpse of ryan’s car that we are picking up tomorrow and got to watch an extremely excited azn pick up his white bmw. Red Leather. WTF.

Decided to take the subway back to Odeonsplatz to take a gander at some of the recommended sites in Munich. Really neat architecture. Tons of pictures. Also, lots of really expensive shops. Rolex, D&G, Prada, etc.. Win. Watches that cost more than ryan’s car. Good game. Ugly watch too. Sould have taken a picture of the 34k Euro watch. Wtf?

We walked back to the hostel knowing we were unlikely to make it much further. This was probably around 6:30 and we decided to chill in the Hostel lounge for a few hours to try and even out our schedules. Jet lag was in extreme need of being owned. Ryan made me stay up. Dick.

In his endeavor to this, he brought out beer after beer after beer. In his defense, they were only 2 euro. Happy hour! Spent nearly 2 hours attempting to talk dipper out of being a moron. Little success achieved. Lots of breath wasted. Work in progress… Same old story.
Went to bed at around 11:00. Ryan and Dipper decided to stay up a bit longer and chill w/ the Chicago croud. Loud bitches.