I'm Here

Hello Everyone,

Can you believe that it is already the middle of September?  Crazy!

We of the McDonald Clan are slowly getting settled in our new home.  Well, I am the only one who is slow about the settling.  My husband is working and not much in his daily life has changed, except his commute - all of a half a mile now.  My kiddos are in school and loving it.  This week is swimming for PE.  Yes, there is a pool on campus.  The kids are making new friends and really enjoying this new environment.


Me, let's just say that I am not totally digging it right now.  To be fair that is mainly do to the fact that I am house bound.  I have no car.  I have no internet.  I can only go to the places I can get to on foot.  Which doesn't sound that bad, but walking here is not so easy.  Public transport is unreliable where it exsists.  Luckily, I can walk to my hubbies work and use his computer.  Of course this only works when he is in the building. Last week he was in a ton of meetings at other buildings so I could not get on-line at all.  That bugs me because I have an on-line life in addition to my real life.  Additionally, right now the only way I can communicate with my friends is via the net. So when You can't get on-line it is a real bummer.


Whoo, I feel better now.  I was hoping to get some pictures up for y'all to see. We'll see if this works. I have to do some fancey computer work here, as I don't want to save these pictures to this computer.  So fingers crossed.....Success!

When we left the states we took a weeks holiday in Germany to visit some great friends and to do a little sightseeing.  We flew into Munich and spent the first day of our visit walking around.   This is the Glockenspiel in Munich city center.  So lovely. 

From Munich we took the train to Garmish.  What an amazingly beautiful place.  It is simply breath taking.
This picture is at the top of the Zugspitz, the top of Germany.  We took a cog-train to the first tower and then a gondola to the top.  We were able to walk across a bridge to the Austrian side of the Zuggy and had lunch.

See that cable tower.  That is how we got down from the Zugspitz.  A gondola straight down and then a cog-train back to Garmish.  We got off the train in Garmish and walked around the town for a bit.  Lovely.  Then we decided we would walk back to our hotel.  We were having a nice relaxing stroll when we saw the clouds begin to darken.  So we picked up the pace a little.  Then it drizzled.  Well, we were to far from town to turn back, so we carried on.  Over half way to the hotel it poured rain, like a lot of rain.  We were totally soaked.  And guess who was wearing white cotton capris?  Fun.  Anyway, it was fun. We got back to the hotel.  Took hot showers, opened a bottle of wine and sat on the terrace watching the clouds roll off of the Zugspitz.  Cei'la Vie.

Had to share this picture of the typical Bavarian houses in and around Garmish.  Too, lovely. Yeah, I took this picture on our stroll back, see the clouds,  it wasn't raining yet.

When you are in Bavaria you can not not go to the Neuschawnstein castle.  It is a must do. It's a hike to get to this picture spot, but I think the picture was worth every huff and puff I made to get here.