Oktober 9 - Oberammergau

Finally I got this to post correctly! Thank you for all the great emails and wellwishes. We tried last night and this morning to get this website to post so you could get our update! We love sharing this fun with you.

Last night we had a great time in Die Alten Poste having a drink on the patio and watching the sun set in this little valley town. This is the town that promised to have a play every 10 years way back in 1600s because they were spared the black plague. It is a 5.5 hour play that next goes on in 2010. Grandma says she loved this town and we agree! Most of the tourists have left for the season, so we are finding ourselves pleasently alone and mostly with locals.

Had a beautiful dinner last night...the server let us sample some local Snapps...One was called Herbst (autumn in german) and the other Hoy or Hough or Hauch. Anyway, they helped us sleep very well last night! We are both doing well interpreting the menu as much as possible...it is tricky because I almost had deer last night and thought I was ordering pork! Oops! We laughed though because german meals take forever...like 2 to 3 hours!

Also had a local beer brewed by monks down the road...very dark but very smooth. They have a huge kloister building that looked like it was out of Disneyland. Which is ironic because Disneyland came from ideas like this. Strange world.

Off we go! We will try for another update in the next town but if we are internet-less we should have an update by the middle of the week or Friday at the latest.

Auf wiedersehen!!!