It must be the month of moving on.  Yesterday, we joined our new Munich Ski Club friend Stretch for his farewll BAR CRAWL.  He is an animal as you know those Brits and how they can drink.  He was sceduled for 9 biergartens from 2pm-???  We made our exit after 4.  Here are a couple pictures.  We will miss you Stretch but look foward to having a friend in Portsmith!  You will have to take us sailing!   You got to love his new outfit the gang go him for a German Farewell Gift!

So we are sad to see Noah head back to the USA.  Happy for him and his family to get to go home and be back in the East, but now one less US friend in Munich.  Thanks to Noah for giving us some insights and dos and don'ts in Germany.  Our first DB bike experience was with Noah on our first visitation trip to decide if we were really going to do this.  Now we are five months in and loving it.  We will miss you Noah! 

Last weekend we had a fun trip to Radstadt with the Munich Ski Club.  Our friends Mairead and Steve joined us (Good Irish and Brits always make a weekend fun)!  Austria ski resorts are wonderfully huge and never a wait in the lift-which was grand!  Saturday the condistions were great for a  snowboard- sunny, warm and slushy.  Unfortuantely, Sunday I spent the time at the bar while Greg joined up with Werner, Dave, and Gang skiing.  Icy conditions are no fun with the snowboard.  Here are a couple pictures from the weekend.  Check out the photo album for more.   So far we have been to two Austrian resorts and two German and I have to admit so far the Austrian resorts are much better!  We hope to get some cross country skiing in soon and will let you know where are the places to go...

So our buddies Lance and Charlotty came for a visit this week.  We met Lance and Charlotty in San Francisco when I worked for the SFUSD, Lance was the best Server Manager and Charlotty the most amazing Executive Assistant you could ask for.  They later got married after I left the school district and Greg and I headed to Portland, Oregon.  Now they both live in Washington DC.  During their trip here we headed to Marienplatz, Duetsches Museum, Hofbrauhaus, Skiing in the Alps and a trip to Neuschwanstein Castle in Fussen.  It was great to see them and yesterday they headed on to Zurich, Amsterdam, and Berlin.  Have a great trip and here are a few pictures below and in the picture libary of their time here in Munich.

 

Well we rang in the New Year will a few of our friends at our place.  It was a nice little crowd and we enjoyed some good Italian eats and Presseco.  The Germans love their fire works as every grocery store sold crazy amounts of fireworks and at midnight our neighborhood went crazy in the streets.  Even the Chinese Restaurant Owner Mr. Lee was having a ball letting off fireworks.  Here are a couple pictures from the evening festivities.  Happy New Year and we are looking forward to our first full year in Munich.