Back to Munich

It's been a month since our last post and much has happened:
- Family visit to Chatham - friends and doctors
- Christmas with the Stolfi clan - fun with family in the cold Ohio winter
- New Year's in Florida - watching children swim in chilly weather and college bowl games

We cannot thank everyone enough for hosting us and/or working with our impossible schedule. There are just too many friends and relatives to see and spend time with. We go back to Munich with great memories.

We returned last week and spent a good deal of time readjusting our body clocks and getting the apartment settled. The kids have been sleeping in until 10am so Monday morning wake up was challenging. There is a great deal of snow here and the weather has been below freezing for over a week so everything is frozen.

There is a 2 mile long canal that runs to the castle by our house that is completely frozen.

It provides several types of fun - ice skating and curling are the most popular. Daphne took this picture one morning while on her walk.

This weekend was sunny and bright (still cold) and there were hundreds of people on the ice. The kids, George and I all went down and walked on the ice. You can rent ice skates and curling equipment (without the broom) but we will save that for another time.

Frankly, the curling looks like another German reason to drink cold beer or warm red wine.

Munich is pretty with a blanket of white snow.