Garmisch

Olympic Stadium
In the spirit of oppressive governments hosting the Olympic games we decided to visit Garmisch, the site of the 1936 winter games. There are a few original structures still here. These ski jumps have obviously been remade and enlarged. But the stadium at the base of the hill is original and really resembles the big Stadium Hitler built over in Nuernburg. This must have been the practice run.


We stayed at the cute little guest house with sheep grazing on the green slopes nearby.


This is right in front of the Zugspitze - Germany's highest peak. The gondola cables are behind us in the distance. We went up to the tip of the highest peak behind us.


This looking down from the gondola we rode. Quite the view - about 1/2 mile to the ground below the gondola. Abby was nervous for the second half of the trip on the way up. I even had a few butterflies especially as the gondola shakes a bit and jerks right as you get to the top getting into the lodge.


The views were amazing. We were lucky the fog burned off. Abby decided she wasn't afraid of heights any more and is leaning over the edge. They built this amazing three story restaurant/visitor's center/conference center right on top of the tallest peak. Very cool.


This is a little Protestant church in Garmisch. Wikipedia (a great source of info) told me it was home to one of the most well known works of one Johann Evangelist Holzer. Now it comes clear to me why the Holzers are so artistic.


Johann did the whole ceiling in a fresco style of painting. After finishing this work in the early 17 hundreds he was 31 years old (a young pup). He just got commissioned to do a huge mural for the archbishop of Cologne at the largest church in the area. He died before he could get started, isn't that always the way it is...

Lichtenstein

Last weekend we visited a new castle. They are as plentiful as potatoes over here.
This was a smaller castle but easy to get to and we had a very nice visit. One more castle to check off the list.

Here Elli is dangerously close to a huge cliff. Who put her up here for this pose anyway?

3 posing princesses

Kyle's Airplane

Kyle loves his new remote control airplane he got for his birthday. We fly it across the street from our house in a field. The girls chase it and giggle. Great exercise!!

Summer Lovin'

The girls in the pool. There are not alot of days warm enough for the pool in Germany. Excuse the immodesty, its time for bigger suits. Ole! Its mexican food!! A good military saint gave us 3 bags of groceries!! We had quite the fiesta. Abby was particularly impressed having never eaten tortilla chips before. We savored every morselKyle got a remote control airplane for his birthday. We have a fun time flying it in the field across from our house. The girls love to chase it around, its great exercise!

Elli singing on her parking lot podium.

University of Tuebingen KinderKlinik visit #2

Here we are at the kitchen of the klinik where we (Sally and Elli) stayed for a week. Elli is being a real trooper with her new diet. The Ketogenic diet - our version - has 80% of the calories from fat.

The klinik (hospital) had 5 cool big wooden structures in different places to play with. Here is an English double decker bus, the boat was a favorite.

Abby's enjoying being the sidekick.

We spent some time in the cool city close by on Saturday.