We drove up to Garmisch late Thursday night, realized we forgot our passports, and got pulled over by a cop :) Such an eventful night. Luckily, the hotel didn't really care about the passport situation, and the cop gave up when he realized we were Americans.
Even though it was a more than necessary stressful night, getting to sleep in and have a full day Friday was worth it! We got up and went to a little bakery in the morning and wandered downtown to the Friday market- which was awesome, and ate a wonderful traditional German lunch. I was introduced many different types of German sausages, spaztel and of course, beer.
That evening we went to the McFadden's family friends, the Sifer's, house and tasted lots of beers with cheese and salami and fruit! So good. And they were great hosts!! Mrs. Sifer took the girls on a tour of their gorgeous German home and the boys talked Army :) Mr. Sifer's is retired Army and the boys really enjoyed talking with him about everything under the sun. Kaitlin and Mason even knew a lot of the same people as the Sifer's did...the Army is truly a very SMALL world. The Sifer's then took us to dinner at this restaurant that did traditional German dancing throughout the night. It was hysterical and so cool!! I even got my picture with one of the boys!
The next morning, the boys got up EARLY and headed to the mountain. I wish I had written this much earlier and could have James recount all of the details, but I will do my best. Basically the boys had no equipment, at all. And when they started hiking, all of the Germans were mocking them and telling him how stupid they were for not having this equipment- like ice picks and ropes to tie into each other. This of course, just fueled their desire to summit the mountain. It didn't help that the Germans with all of the equipment seemed to be struggling in comparison. Well, I guess the boys got about 3/4th of the way up, when they reached the big glacier that they needed to cross....(this just sounds like a bad idea to me). Then, they some how ran into these "German mountain goats"...basically several men that according to the boys looked like they have been climbing this mountain for years and had the essential equipment, but weren't "decked" out. Anyway, these "mountain goats" advised them to turn around, because they wouldn't be able to climb the glacier in this weather without icepicks or tied into each other. THANK goodness they listened, and headed back down the mountain. Needless to say, we had some grumpy boys on our hands. Meanwhile, Kaitlin, Heidi, and I enjoyed our morning massages and pool time with sweet little Molly.
In the afternoon- Kaitlin and I walked around the town while the boys slept, and got some beautiful pictures!!
Dinner was at this quaint little diner with a totally inappropriate name....but came highly recommended, so we risked it.
One of the best parts of the trip was hiking the Partnach Gorge. It was beautiful!! We hiked it Sunday morning before our drive home.
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