Our visit with Aunt Kim and Uncle Keith

I mentioned in an earlier post how many visitors we had this year. We were very blessed with having lots of Sam's family visit. The last of those visitors came in September, just two days after my friend's baby shower. Sam's aunt and uncle stayed with us for a couple of weeks and we loved having them here. 

I think we've taken every person who's visited us to Garmisch. We just LOVE that place! We love it and think everyone should go there, so that's always on our agenda.  One of our favorite things to do there is hike the gorge.  It's just beautiful.  Sam wanted to ride bicycles to the gorge, so he and Keith rented some from the Edelweiss.  He also rented a tag-along for Elly, but in the end switched it out for a seat because she was just a little too young for it yet.  She was a little shaky.  We've since bought one for ourselves and she does great on it, but at this point she wasn't ready.  Here she was all ready for her bike ride.

The mandatory potty break before heading out.

Waiting to catch the cable car to the top.  Sometimes we hike up, but this time we took the cable car up and hiked down.

The beautiful rushing water in the gorge.

Sam, Elly and I had an afternoon to ourselves so we took an old cable car to the top of one hill.  I was a little nervous since it was wide open and they seemed rather old, but we enjoyed ourselves and survived.  Elly had to sit on our laps since the cable car was so small and had just two seats facing each other.  My stomach did several flips when I looked down and realized how easily she could fall out.  It always amazes me how relaxed the Germans are about safety.  I think America goes overboard for sure, but the Germans pretty much let you do what you want.  There would be so many lawsuits in America.  Not sure why that doesn't happen here.

On another trip to Garmisch we want to to maybe take a cable car up the mountain and hike down.  There's not much at the top, but it's so beautiful and serene. This day we didn't have that much time so we just walked around up top and took an ice cream break with Elly.  It had started raining so we got out some ponchos.  Elly was wanting Sam to carry her, so we fixed one to go over both of them.  It was a nice time. 

 

We stopped at a restaurant and had an ice cream break for Elly. She's at the age where every picture is her trying out a different look. She's so silly, but it can be a little frustrating at times when I really would like to have a nice picture. They are few and far between these days.

 

The view out the back door of the apartment we stayed in. 

 

Elly with Aunt Kim and Uncle Keith the night before they left.