The Augustiner Brauerei and Monastery

When researching the trip, I read about a place to eat and Dawn and I decided it would be a good choice. Since John had been doing 'girlie' type stuff (SOM tour, then a concert) I figured we owed him a fun meal. So we headed off to find this brewery/monastery. It was an adventure - we walked along, in the shade next to the beautiful green water in the river, eventually making our way to the building we believed to be the location. There is a doorway (not very large) and one tiny sign, but it isn't on the main road. I was a bit hesitant - it said in the guidebook that this place seated 1000 people. Anyway, we forged ahead, into a small hallway - at the end of the hallway was a door. We opened it, continued in another small hallway and came to this huge staircase. We took a photo of John - he is posing sort of crazily so we could photo-shop in Chris, Joe and the other man-crazies later. ha ha. Anyway, we head down the stairs - mind you, it is quiet and there isn't another soul around. I am about to decide that we are going to come out in the middle of a chapel service when we see the food booths. We have arrived - the place is like a giant beer hall, with food booths in the hallway - everything from schnitzel to fish smoked on a stick, to pastries were available. We continued forward and found the stairway to the outdoor beer garden - Sah - WEET! We quickly found a table, sent the kids to the playground and were off to score some dinner. Check out the pic - that was the kids' and I's meal - we shared 2 dinner plates between us and still had food left - all of this, including the beer was less than 20 Euro. We also ran into Dr. Lamar; it was fun to get to catch up and visit with her! The weather was perfect, the atmosphere fun but laid back; the beer was cold and the kids were occupied. Predictably, we sat here quite a while...............