Daddy and daughter

Boredom

Cailin is bored beyond words. She suffered a concussion last week (luckily she is on the mend), but no electronics, TV, reading, running, or anything requiring too much concentration has left her a tad stir crazy!

When did you get so grown up?

Emma at the bus stop.

Stupid cat.

Long Friday Run

Decided to go for a run yesterday morning. About 80 degrees and 90% humidity. But other than that, a perfect morning:

Ran Billy Goat C trail along the Potomac. Felt so good I kept running and did Billy Goat B too. At that point, going back to my office sounded terrible so I might as well do Billy Goat A. It wasn't really possible to run A, more of a rock scramble. But the views were great:

Here are pictures of what most of my scramble for two miles on Billy Goat A looked like:

Really enjoyed myself. Ended up being 10.6 miles all said and done. Much better than work!

Rumor has it...

...that mom is organizing in the house. Hence dad's shop is a popular refuge suddenly.

Last meal

After saying good bye to Munich, we headed to Stuttgart to meet up with a former classmate of Marlee's. We then checked into a hotel and enjoyed our last dinner in Europe at the Flying Ship. Yummy pizzas.

Hohenschwangau Castle

This castle is close to Neuswanstein. We stopped on our drive back to get this picture.

A little more Neuswanstein

Beautiful lady!

Munich

Headed to Munich on Saturday to visit Uncle Dodo. Walked around (dodging rain drops) and saw some of the sites.

The last picture is in the square where at 5pm, music starts at the glockinspiel (clock) with the statues moving around in the clock.

Rainbow

On our way back from Neuswanstein, we came across this rainbow. I pulled over to try and take a non-windshield photo, but couldn't get a good view of it. This will have to suffice.

Walk down

I think it is easier to walk up hill than down. Wouldn't you agree?

Neuswanstein castle

Went to the inspiration for Disney's Sleeping Beauty castle on Friday. The hike up to the castle was another hill--about 40 minutes. Views were fabulous!

That time of year again!!!

This might be a record for me

205 updates?

In search of the waterfall

Marlee and I ventured out tonight in search of the local waterfall on bikes. Like our bicycling selfie?

We road down the road, through the gate, up the hill (avoiding cow pies), abandoned our bikes, and continued on foot until we reached the little waterfall. The ride down the hill was much easier!

Last picture is of our town, Bichlbach, Austria. A paraglider was landing as I was taking the picture.

Can this be considered dinner?

Oberammergau ice cafe!

Oberammergau, Germany

Drove over to Oberammergau (try saying that three times fast) today. The town is known for their Passion play which they put on every 10 years (next is in 2020). We walked around the town, saw beautiful paintings on the buildings (something else they are known for) and enjoyed dessert in an outdoor cafe).

The only problem with having Emma manage the camera today is we have no photos of the town. We do have a photo of a very large soccer ball, though. In the 2nd picture you can see some of the paintings on the building.

Breakfast deliciousness

Emma and I biked to the backerei( bakery) this morning. They are open only from 0700-1000 so we had to get up earlier than our normal. We are still on the time zone from somewhere in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean it seems.

We picked up this almond pastry thing (this is what was left after we all had some--think we'll be eating it tomorrow) and a French loaf for dinner.