Mittenwald and Goas-Alm

Last night my American cousins Dan and Brian arrived by train from Berlin. We all hung out here and ate Weisswurst for dinner.

Today we all took a drive over the border to Mittenwald and the goat farm. (Goas-Alm) This time we remembered to bring a bottle for fresh goat milk and bought some for Jim to make his goat cream cheese. We started a hike from there, through the meadows and a wood to the TennSee. The first photo is of Brian and Dan just before we started the hike. The good news is that my foot is much better and I could hike with them. The bad news is that it started raining just as we started the hike. Jim and I had umbrellas. The rest of the guys just toughed it out and we all hiked anyway. The brown lumps in the photo of the field are made by moles, called "Maulwurfen." There is a cake called Maulwurf cake, and it is called that because it is made of a pile of chocolate cake and chocolate pieces and looks like one of the Maulwurf lumps. I am going to make it soon.

It was a nice walk, although the TennSee was small and looked like a swampy frozen field. You can see it in the background behind the group photo of the guys. We saw another lake, the Schmalensee (Little Lake) on the way back, which was much more photogenic.

Then we drove back to Mittenwald, where we had a very nice late lunch at the Gröbl-Alm with a beautiful view of the mountains. You can see Jim, Jim and Chris pondering the menu. Then we walked around the pedestrian zone of Mittenwald and poked into shops (yea!!!)

Tonight we are going out to the Wilder Mann for dinner. Brian and Dan leave tomorrow on a train for Slovenia.