I just finished sending my sister an email detailing how that fucking Prednisone? That I took for FOUR DAYS ONLY? It like, burned my face. I’m serious–I started taking on that Friday, and by the following Monday my entire face was brown, like I had over done it on the bronzer, and tight. It was OBVIOUSLY brown, and in some places darker than others. My whole face. By Wednesday or so it felt like I had taken a pumice stone from forehead to chin, and while we were in Garmisch this past weekend, it all started to peel. It’s STILL peeling. My whole face. It’s so gross.
Anyway! Garmisch OHMYGOD it was so perfect! We got there Friday night, found our Gasthaus right away, dropped off our bags and headed into town for dinner. Our place was only two blocks away from the town center, which was pedestrian only, and filled with plenty of places to sit outside and eat. Saturday we woke up with the intention to go hiking, but then ditched that idea and took a train and cable car to the very top of the Zugspitze, where the weather was gorgeous, really, really gorgeous, and the view was amazing. We played cards up there. On the top of the world, the girls and John and I had a Speed tournament and it was the most fun ever.
On Sunday we drove to Dachau, which is about two hours away, and spent the day reading and walking and being generally subdued. It’s hard to be joyous when you’re reading about, you know, lunacy and death. It’s hard to fathom, even being right there, it’s hard to look out and imagine what it must have been like.
We came home on Monday, tired but totally content. Except for when we got stuck in traffic due to construction and I got this grand idea that I could navigate us from one autobahn to the other using only a map and sideroads. It got to the point where when coming up to a turnoff John would say, “Do I go right or left?” and I would look around and say, “Oh, McDonalds! Do you have to pee?” Eventually, like, three hours later than we were supposed to, we made it home. It was kind of sad because it was nearly not enough time. We had no computers, no internet, no tv…and still had a great time, teenagers and all. I love my family, they are awesome.
There was one bad thing about the weekend, and that was the lack of fans or air conditioning in the room, holy crow it got so hot! We of course had the windows open but it rained at night and the windows are the German kind that open inward on a slanted roof and somehow I don’t think leaving those kind open during a rain storm is smart at all.
We took lots of pictures, and I tried to upload them onto my flickr, but halfway through the process I’d get an error and the uploader would close. What I didn’t realize was every time I started over, it reuploaded everything it had ALREADY uploaded, so I found myself with quad-and quint-uplicates of like, 15 of 176 pictures, and by the time I got THAT mess sorted out, I was over it. But the ones that ARE there are good ones, ones of the mountain, so I’d go check them out. I’ll try to get the others uploaded this weekend but I have papers to write. Stupid papers.
I’m off to bed now, busy Friday tomorrow.
Tschuss!!
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