every day colder !!!!

minus 11°C

this mornings temperatur - brrrrrr

minus 7°C on our balcony !!!!

Saturday afternoon walk in Westpark

We still don't have much snow in Munich. But now it's first time this winter that the kids are tobogganing in Westpark

some kids had build a snow man

not much room left in Opa's suitcase !

saturday morning - it was snowing at night

Saturday we went by train to Cologne (Köln) with Bibsi and Erich. Our friends Tünde and Friedbert organized tickets for special carneval events this weekend !

first evening in Cologne

we went to a very old traditional theater

Friedbert, Herbert and Erich - look at the sice of the beer glases - very unusual for us !!!

typical beer pub "Früh"

Friedbert and Herbert are waiting till their women get ready

in our hotel lobby in front of the carneval decoration

Tünde and Friedbert

The 4 "devils" from Munich: Herbert, Bibsi, Erich, Ute - ready to have fun!
We borrowed this costumes from Barbara.

"Stunksitzung"

thats the stage where the carneval is starting

Tünde, with her daughter Claudia and boyfriend Robert

watching the ice scaters in the middle of town

a bit more "power" into the Glühwein !

evening cooking class

Barbara and I wanted to go to a cooking class to get more tips how to cook fish in different ways.
We learned a lot and had a great evening.

our instructors

our menue:
marinated raw tuna
scallops with veggie
french fish soup
sea bass baked in salt crust with spinach and potatoe
cappuccino creme

a few samples of the evening

ingredients for the fish soup:
4 different sea fish, moussels and prawns

fish soup with Rouille

scallop with veggie

road to St. Johann / Tirol

This year we spend a week holiday with Brummers in the farmhouse "Wolkenmoos" in St. Johann/Tirol

that was Herbert's first job

shortly after we arrived, Herbert startet to build a snow bar for our New Years Eve-Celebration!

Herbert with our new snow shoes

we bought snow shoes this winter and loved to walk cross country in the deep snow

cross country skiing

Brummers bought new cross country skis and outfit

first try to toboggan

new born calf

in the barn of the farmhouse we visited the two days ago born calf

New Years Eve

after the celebration on the snow bar, everybody get a good luck present

candles on our snow bar - ready for the New Year!

Katharina made for all of us delicious crepes

lots of fun with a new game

"Pillersee-Loipe"

a drink and a little rest in the sun

on the second day we had beautiful sunny weather

look out from our balcony

not much to see from our neighbours house

over night another load of snow