Next Stop...Garmisch!

Garmisch Vacation I

Yesterday after leaving Nürnberg we made our way down to Garmisch and got checked in at the hotel. We had time to take Colin for a quick dip in the pool and then went over to the best restaurant in the area and our favorite place, Conlan's Cafe. Shelby had a Conlan's special cordon bleu and I had a deer gulasch plate that was fantastic.

This morning we got up and headed to the ski slopes to take Colin sledding. He got a new wooden sled as part of his Christmas gifts, but we had to give it to him early of course so we could get good use out of it here in the big snow. He had a blast sledding down the hill with us and watching the other kids. He was very intrigued by the other little kids learning how to ski. After sledding for a while we got in the car to warm up and drove over to Oberammagau to check out their little village Christmas market. It was smaller than we expected, but had some very tasty food.

Later on we came back to the hotel and did a little swimming. Colin is becoming quite the fish and was swimming pretty good with his vest on in the pool. After that we dressed Colin in his Christmas outfit and attempted some pictures in the gorgeous hotel decorations/displays. The whole hotel is decorated so beautifully and they make up several spots that are perfect for picture taking. Colin of course HATES having his picture taken and so I knew this would be a challenge. Not even bribing him with Santa watching was working out. He did ok in the pictures with one of us in them...but forget a good shot of him by himself...wiggle butt can't sit still long enough! Once we gave up on picture taking we had a nice dinner at the hotel and then relaxed for the rest of the evening.