So now we are in December and I am just a few days away from being home for the holidays!!! Yay I am just so excited! And yet again it is difficult for me to grasp how quickly the time has passed. In no time at all I will be anxiously waiting to be released from the stuffy plane that I will have spent over 10 hours on … and breathe in some fresh Seattle air. I am so grateful that I get to come home to a family that is so amazingly wonderful and dear friends whom I adore. I am ready for some familiarity, my melt-away bed, any kind of food I crave, not having to decode a language or balance and prepare 15 different classes for the week…

For now I will enjoy the lights and decorations that line every single street here, and the Christmas music that they have begun playing over public loudspeakers.

Here are some recent pictures….

.... and what is this lil guy doing?

JEAN LEON WINERY


MUNICH… A BIT CHILLIER THAN IN SPAIN…. BUT THOSE LITER BEER WILL SURE WARM YA UP!


Typical “white” sausage of Bavaria… had to try it just because – but first we had to figure out how to get the casing off… ummmm, actually not so much

YAY FOR SNOW!!!!

DELICIOUS HOT WINE TO KEEP US WARM WHILE SHOPPING AND HERE WE GO WITH ½ METER SAUSAGES!!!!


OH THE HILLS ARE ALIVE WITH THE SOUND OF MUSIC IN SALSBURG!!!


MERRY CHIRISTMAS …HAPPY HOLIDAYS…MERRY CHRISTMAS…HAPPY HOLIDAYS !!!!!