Garmish Partenkirche

Took half a day off from school to go to Garmisch Partenkirche with my Landlady. Initial plan was to visit Zug Spitze, the highest point in Germany. But the cable car ride up cost almost 50 eurs. I would rather spend that 50 eurs on a plane ticket and fly to italy over the weekend. So we chose another summit that is almost as tall but not as costly. My landlady's sister-in-law has a holiday home in the little town overlooking the mountains, so we were invited over. Took just a little more than an hour by car to reach Garmish. Its a little town sitting in the valley of the alps, thus it is surrounded by snow cap mountains (a little left). We first met up with my landlady's sister in law before heading for the mountains. We arrived at the cable car station only to be told that the cable cars go up only to the middle station as the weather is coming in and its no longer safe to go all the way up. Haiz. Built in 1981, the cable car didn't look too solid anyway. The cabin is so small that it can fit at most 4 adults. It did however offer a spectacular view of the small town below. Well not really small if you see the picture. From the middle station, we spent 1 and a half hours trekking downhill before the weather really came in. Unprepared for the shitty weather, other than a water proof bag and a half broken umbrella, we quickened our pace and finally arrived at the little town call partenkirsche. Check out google earth for better pictures. Felt like i entered another world. It resembled one of the middle age little towns in the Final Fantasy game, seriously super cool. Unfortunately it was raining and i didn't really want to bring out my camera. Got a couple of pictures though. But it was more point and shoot kind of pictures. Too bad it wasn't sunny, if not the pictures would be uber cool. Took a short rest before heading out with husband of my landlady's sister in law, Wally to Eisbach. Its a small little water body that looked really harmless, until you soak your legs in it. Eisbach, literally translated to ice stream. I didn't think it was ice cold when i first stepped in it until it felt like there was electricity in the water. And the change was in a matter of 3 seconds. The next moment i was out of the water already while Wally sank almost half his body in the water. Well he has been doing it for the past 17 years. He promised me that tonight i will sleep like a baby. I did indeed, from 11 pm till 9.30am the next day. Yeah my class starts at that time. Back to garmisch, back home, he cooked up a superb meal for us, lamb with baked potatoes and sweet corn. Top Restaurant grade stuff. End of the meal was ice cream with warm hersley chocolate sauce. All these in a cosy bavaria cottage house. Sometimes i really wonder if all these is just a dream..Didn't stay long after dinner as storm clouds were coming in. Super horrible weather was predicted for the evening, thus we had to leave. Halfway back on the autobahn, it started raining ice. Camera was in the back of the car and it was too dark for any good pictures anyway, thus didn't take any. But it was the longest and heaviest rainfall i have encountered so far. 1 hour into the drive and the rain was still as heavy. Rain finally eased as we approached Munich. Cooked myself another plate of spagatti with meat balls as i still felt hungry. That pretty much concludes my last excursion out of munich.