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Day 3: ArabellaSheraton Alpenhotel in Spitzingsee.

Days 1-2 were exciting because it was all about the anticipation and delivery of the car...but it didn't feel like vacation. Day 3 is a whole different story. This is the Germany I came to see. 

  • Pictures 4-6 are the two mini M3's that the boy bought himself as souvenirs. He's been keeping them in his backpack so he can check them out at a moment's notice, hehe.
  • Picture 8 is the view out of the balcony in our room. Couldn't have asked for a better one.
  • Pictures 12-15 are out on the rented paddle boat.
  • Picture 16 is a view of our hotel (on the left) from the paddle boat. We're in the annex which is not connected to the main hotel (on the right). If you look closely, you'll see what looks like a red Ferrari in the water. There were two paddle boats that looked like that. One yellow, one red, and yes, they both had fake Ferrari logos on them, LOL.

It's too bad we're only staying here one night, but we have other fun things we need to get to...

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Day 3: Lunch at ArabellaSheraton Alpenhotel.

The pics aren't great since they're from the iPhone, but this was a REALLY good lunch. Buffet style so you could just go get whatever you want. The boy LOVED the soup and probably had 3 or 4 bowls of it. I went for the meats and vegetables...several times! So good.

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Day 3: Driving through Sudelfeld-Bergstrasse.

Today was our first real driving day, and let me just say it was an absolute treat! The part from Münich to Brannenburg was pretty anti-climactic since we were just getting out of the city and there was some traffic, but once with hit the outskirts, it was awesome.

I never did get the Navi to import the routes I set up on BMW-Routes.com so I had to manually enter them. Wasn't too much of a hassle, but it would have been much better if the import simply would have worked. We stopped at Milbing which is where we took the first two pics. The other three are at a spot along the way somewhere on or near the Sudelfeldstrasse. It's a beautiful mountain roads with lots of great twisties and amazing scenery on both sides. Lots of trees, open fields and mountains. That was a ton of fun. Kyle took some video using the Flip Mino which I'll try to see if they are small enough to upload later.

The map of today's route is below:

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Dinner with Phil. Traditional Bavarian Food.

For our last night in Münich, we had dinner with my former Yahoo! Co-worker, Phil and his wife, Nicola. We met up at "Kreuzberger" where we ate traditional Bavarian food. Phil and I had a type of traditional pork loin which was very good. The round balls are some sort of pasty potato. The boy had a sausage and fries. Nicola had some sort of lamb thing with pasta that looked like vegetables.

The boy slept for 4-5 hours after lunch so he was pretty drowsy, but once we got going, he was more alert. He dozed off in the taxi over a couple of times. We took a taxi instead of driving my new M3 because the parking situation in Münich is not very good...plus, I wanted to get some German driving tips from Phil before venturing off on our own. Drove the car back and forth to Die Welt a couple of times already though.

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Day 2: The M3 is mine mine mine, all mine!

My plan was to take a bunch of really cool pics during delivery since the Welt has such a nice backdrop. However, I was too pre-occupied looking at and getting to know the car. I didn't realize I didn't really take very many pics until I got back to the hotel and uploaded the photos. Oh well...lost opportunity.

I'm loving the Fox Red interior. The pictures really don't do it justice. It's hard to capture the color with any sort of accuracy. It's definitely a dark brownish red. Looks really nice with the Space Gray exterior.

The boy did a great job being patient while the delivery specialist went over a bunch of the features. I thought for sure he would get antsy, but he didn't. The last pic shows him hanging out in the back seat looking at one of his souvenirs. That helped, I'm sure. He also took some Flip Mino video during the process which kept him pretty occupied.

Super stoked to have the car right now, but there were two tiny bits of disappointment during this delivery process:

  1. We could not do a Factory Tour because it's closed. Everyone is on vacation. Booooo!! I was really looking forward to that. :(
  2. Before we left for the trip, the video we watched from the BMW website seemed to indicate there was a lot more interactive demonstrations for the actual delivery of my car (customized with specific information about the M3). They either skipped that whole part of the delivery or, the demos were sprinkled throughout the downstairs area and no one walked us through them. The boy really wanted to do the driving simulator we saw on the video, but that didn't happen.

Overall, it was a great experience though. Boy is sleeping right now since he didn't get much sleep at all last night. Hope this doesn't mess with his sleeping schedule for tonight >__<

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Day 2: Misc Shots from the BMW Welt

Just a few random shots from around the Welt. 

Noteworthy (in no particular order):

  • They put out quite a spread for customers waiting in the delivery lounge. Light fare, but very well put together. Finger foods, drinks, desserts. Nicely appointed.
  • Of course, the boy found his souvenir quickly. Little (and not so little) die cast cars. I think he's known this is what he was looking for since before we left on the trip. He was a little disappointed they did not have the big one in Alpine White or Space Gray, but at least he got some little ones in those colors.
  • Architecturally, this place is amazing. Everything is so well designed, even down to the bathrooms. The entire building is flawless.
  • The Z4 actually looks way better in person than it does in pictures. I wasn't really all that impressed watching videos or looking at photos, but seeing it in real life made me think I could actually see myself driving one of those.

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Day 2: A few snapshots from the BMW Museum.

We sort of rushed through the museum since we only had 45 minutes until our delivery...plus, the boy was getting tired of walking. We had planned on going back to see the rest afterward, but we got a little too excited after taking delivery of the car so we just took off to go back to the hotel and mess with the M3.

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Day 1 Map


Landed in Franz Josef Strauss airport around 5:30pm then took the Lufthansa Airport Bus to Münich North. The dropoff spot is conveniently located right next to the Renaissance München Hotel. 
 
Thanks, Bimmerfest Forum for the travel tips. Only cost €16 for both of us one way. 
 
Big day tomorrow. Gotta get my rest.

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