We went on a fun drive through the mountains in our rental car, and passed a lot of fun castles and ruins. We thought how nice it would be if we had a car so we could come back and explore all these fun places. The mountain roads...
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On the way home today, a lady got on the bus wearing a big fluffy orange fur coat, along with an awesome fur hat. Elora kept staring at her and finally said (in a very serious, contemplative voice), “That lady looks like a...
Random thoughts by Karen, with a few by Chris (first commenter to guess who wrote each wins some Viennese chocolates!) Europeans are very snobbish toward McDonalds, as they should be, with the exception of the fact that they LOVE...
On New Year’s Eve we went to a dinner party with a Frenchman, aRussian, a Brazilian, and an Italian. A couple of Mormons walked inand said, “If you can think of a good joke, let me know.” No really,we went to a...
This will conclude our Garmisch posting. I feel like Oliver gets alittle ignored in the posting sometimes, since he doesn’t walk aroundyet… but he is a really sweet baby who loves to play and is usuallya happy little...
We went on a horse and carraige ride with Chris’ dad one night. Elorawas still sick and had to stay home with Nana and watch Cinderella.The carriage ride was an educational experience – we learned a lotabout the...
We took the kidlets down to the pool, which is super nice and wasn’t crowded – perfect for our two little fish. Elora loved this pool because the shallow part was only two feet so she could walk around and say she was...
We took a night time torch-walk tour of the gorge in Garmisch. It’s a windy (sometimes icy) ledge trail along the side of the gorge above an icey river, which is overhung by ice formations.It was fun to go on, but you...
A week in Munich! And 10 lifetimes worth of sights seen! We passed by the imposing, yet grand Castle Ehrenberg as we sojourned along the Autobahn toward Garmisch, on a return trip from the Bavarian King’s castle...
Chris sounding off… I had to point this out to -everyone within earshot- because it’s way too cool.So I was checking out books.google.com for some work-related inspiration (they scan in all the pages of old books and...