Alaska--We Found A House!!!

It feels much more official now that we have found a house.  For those of you not keeping up, we are moving to Alaska in June for two years.  We took 10 days to find a house, figure out the new city, and see what we could accomplish before we arrive.  We also made time for fun...Alaska Aces game, purchased and used x-country skis, tried several new places to eat (mostly recommendations--THANK YOU), and explored.  

One very cool thing we were able to see was an eagle feeding (pics attached).  Every Sunday there is a lady who comes to the VFW parking lot with frozen salmon--the eagles start arriving about an hour before she does and several follow her into the parking lot.  At the end of the day about 40 Bald and Golden Eagles cruise through this parking lot to eat--we took lots of pictures.  If you come visit and stay through mid-Sunday we'll take you too.

Pictures from Germany

Reference Chuck's post about our trip to Germany.  Here's a link with lots of pictures from Frankfurt, Garmisch, and the Zugspitz--it was a great trip with lots of winter weather that followed us back to DC.  I spent a day on the Zugspitz and it was amazing--my pictures don't it justice.  There were so many mountain peaks and so much snow...I think I stayed up there for 2 hours.

Snow Day

Chuck and I spent last week in Germany and I was actually supposed to fly to SC today--even though my luggage is still somewhere between Atlanta and DC.  Last night I thought it would be great if we woke up to LOTS of snow and a delayed flight.  It worked!!! I woke up to a two hour work delay, lots of snow, still no bags...so I'm telecommuting and have a very early flight scheduled for tomorrow.

Germany

So we just got back from a week+ in Germany. Andi had a work trip, and Chuck tagged along. We visited an old friend of Chuck's in the Frankfurt area, visited our friends the Bosone's in Stuttgart, and spent almost a week in Garmisch-Partenkirchen (a little south of Munich, on the Austrian border). It is a nice little mountain town tucked up in the Alps. Our good friends the Pannabeckers joined us for a few days of skiing, drinking, hot tubbing, and eating. A long and hectic trip back (it snowed in Atlanta) but safely home again. Andi will post the link to some of the best pictures a little later. --- Chuck