Cold, rainy, and foggy today

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Well, there was no skiing today. When we got up this morning, we couldn't see the mountains from our room, and a quick look at the weather forecast and the webcam at the top of the mountain boded for a cloudy, foggy day with no sunshine insight. Having skied in these conditions before, and not liked them, we decided to hang out in Garmisch-Partenkirchen instead today.

We did accomplish a couple of things though.

1) we had coffee and pastry in several coffee shops and erased my caffeine deficiency of the past few days.

2) as we browsed around town, we found some candidates for next year's Christmas stockings

3) we took a quick tour of the Olympic Stadium and their exhibition "the Dark Side of the Games"



We did walk through town, and you will see the obligatory church photo to prove it. Also notice the house with the roof tiles ... Dave still can't look at those roof tiles and not think of getting stuck in the mud in Roubaix ... So I enjoyed pointing out all of the houses with tiles to him.



It is supposed to be at least partly cloudy tomorrow ... and fit to ski.

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Photos

Ludwigstrasse in Partenkirchen
Still holidayed up

Roof tiles
They are everywhere

Split boards
And all on sale!

At the Toy Store
We found a John Deere section

Car Legos
And some Legos we had not seen ...

Star Wars Legos
Something else we hadn't seen before

Great boots
Only available in sample sizes ... Aarrgh

The Olympic Stadium
It did have a kind of creepy feel to it

The ski jump
World championships were held here in January

Cow bells
It was hard to keep Dave from adding to his collection

Possible Christmas gift for 2014
A possibility

Comments

[Karen]

Jimmy we wore shorts that short in the 70\'s. Look like you are having a good time. We are in the deep freeze again; Daryl was elected to the board at our timeshare. He is now the treasure.

[Matt]

More Cowbell
Give in to the temptation!

[Matt]

Dan!
I bet he would be going nuts for one of those right now!