On the road again with the Mellwigs

Sunday, March 8, 2009

Skiing in Garmisch Partenkirchen

We had a wonderful weekend skiing in Garmisch Partenkirchen which is near Munich. The hotel was really nice with excellent food. The sauna and steam bath were also included, which was great considering we were in pain already after the first day! We really lucked out with the weather, it was beautiful with blue, sunny skies the whole weekend. I only fell twice didn't walk away with too many injuries....only a stiff neck and leg muscles! We're looking forward to another skiing weekend in Austria with Christian's family over Easter. Hope you enjoy the pictures!

Our hotel

The view down the street

Christian getting ready to hit the slopes!

The view from the Alpspitz

At the top of the Alpspitz

The Zugspitze, the highest peak in Germany

Looking down over Garmisch Partenkirchen

Olympic skiing!

Here's where we go the train to go up the mountain

Christian and the view over Garmisch Partenkirchen

What a great weekend!

Here's a video for your enjoyment and my embarrassment...Christian really wanted it on the blog...you'll see why in a minute.
By the way, the translation for what I say in the video (German: mach kein scheiss = English: cut the crap)

Tuesday, March 3, 2009

Fasching...The last party....dann alles ist vorbei...

We couldn't get enough of Fasching so we went back to Geisingen for some more! This time it was an evening full of comedy shows, skits, and dancing. We go every year and dress up...this year's costumes were probably politically incorrect (at least for me to be wearing it!), but no harm done in Germany I guess!

Later in the bar...Martina, Marco, Daniela, Christian, Guenter (Christian's Dad)

after a few more drinks...

Daniela after her debut on stage.

I don't know what to say here...too many drinks and it was only 9:00pm.

...our better sides.....

Don't know what's going on here...we seem to have a lot of these pictures...

here either....

Christian's cousin is on the left...Manny's brother...

The two amigos..

The best looking girls in the whole hall.....

The smurfs were there too!

The best picture of all...

Sunday, February 8, 2009

More Fasching movies

Wednesday, February 4, 2009

Fasching time again!!! Narrentreff in Geisingen

Fasching is a time of year here where everyone dresses up and there are parties, parades, etc. Here is a link on Wikipedia if you're interested in learning more:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fastnacht

Last weekend there were parties and parades in Chrisitan's home town with thousands of people in costumes that are all homemade. Here are a few pics and movies from last weekend. We ended up running a bar all day and night on Saturday (Christian, Daniela, Marco, Moritz and me) and Christian's family and me were all in a parade on Saturday and Sunday. It was my first experience dressing up and participating in all of the events! It was a lot of fun!

Daniela and Moritz start decorating the bar

Christian and Manny hanging up the lights outside

The parade begins...

The Hansele group (I think that's Daniela!!)

Berbel (Christian's Mom) and me walking together in the parade. Narri Narro!!!

The witches and putting kids and young women into their wagon that spins around

This group of people are called plum swallowers....at least that's the english translation!

This group is from the Rhein area and they even had a fish with them!

Just after the parade, after 3 schnaps and a couple glasses of champange....this costume was bad news...everyone kept buying me drinks when I had it on!