Day 13
Tuesday, July 04,
2006
Garmisch, Germany
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| Cable car to Zugspitze |
After breakfast at the hotel buffet, we drive fifteen
minutes to take a cable car ride up to the Zugspitze.
The webcam shows it has a thick cloud cover
over it but we hope that it will clear up as the sun burns through.
After our ten-minute cable car ride up to the
top of the Zugspitze which is 10,000 feet high,
we are pleased to see some sun shining through the clouds.
We stay up on the mountain peak for about 90
minutes and the sun breaks through.
Mike
has coffee and Pat has hot chocolate, perfect to warm us up since it is chilly
at 10,000 feet.
After our cable car ride down, we walk over to Lake Eibsee
to take a motorboat cruise. The man
renting the boats is from Scotland. His name is Mark and he is very
friendly. After our boat ride, we have
lunch outside at the Pavilion Restaurant.
On our way a back to the Edelweiss Lodge, we decide to take
a luge ride. We find one about 15
minutes away at the site of the 1936 winter Olympics in ski jumping. It was a lot of fun.
Since this is the 4
th of July, we are going to a
barbecue and we'll see fireworks tonight at our lodge.
Scenes from atop the Zugspitze, 10,000 feet above Garmisch
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| Mike on top of the Zugspitze |
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| View of Eibsee Lake (where we later took a boat ride) |
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| Outdoor cafe |
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| Ah, I love my morning coffee! |
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| Bratwurst man |
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| Treacherous climb to reach the highest point! |
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| We're descending in the cable car . . . |
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| . . . hope these cables hold! |
Photos of Eibsee Lake, and surrounding area of Garmisch, Germany
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| Our boat on Eibsee Lake |
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| View from Eibsee Lake on our boat ride |
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| Eibsee Hotel and Restaurant as seen from the lake |
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| Eibsee Hotel |
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| Dining room of the hotel |
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| Outdoor cafe |
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| Jacqueline, our waitress |
Luge Ride in Garmisch (site of the 1936 Winter Olympics)
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| View from my bobsled |
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| Made it all the way down! |
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