Today we visited Linderhoff Palace, which was one of King Ludwig II's palaces he build. It was pretty small but impressive. I especially liked where he used to dine in private, and the table he ate off of was on a kind of elevator so it would be piled in the basement with food, then raised up when he was ready to eat.

It was a pretty rainy day at Linderhoff Palace in Germany.

The girls trying to stay dry.

Megan and Ian in from of the long staircase waterfall at Linderhoff.

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Linderhoff and Garmisch. I woke up this morning thinking I’d go on another bike ride, but it was raining pretty hard, and I didn’t feel like getting soaked. Brecken and Kindra went for a walk that was supposed to be a jog. I went into the nearest larger town looking for a laundry mat. I thought we had a washer and dryer at the place we are staying, but we don’t. I also thought we had an internet connection which we don’t. I didn’t find a laundry mat, but did find a replacement camera to the one Brad lost. Prices are pretty good here. I bought a Casio Exilim with over 10 mega-pixels that is pretty small for 59 euros or $75 at the current exchange rate of about 1 euro = $1.23. I think a similar one back home would cost at least $125. The drop in value of the euro over the last 6 months has helped. We decided to go to Linderhoff castle today. It’s certainly off the beaten path. You have to drive way up this isolated canyon for about 30 minutes to get there. It’s pretty ornate, but not terribly large. It’s in a beautiful setting though. Then we drove to Gamisch and decided to find a laundry mat. Parking and maneuvering around these small towns isn’t always the easiest, especially in the little larger van we have. I found a parking place near the town center area and decided to find a tourist information place and ask them where we could find a laundry mat. We didn’t have a ton of laundry to do, but doing about 1 load of whites and one of darks now would get us through Germany and to Austria, and I’m pretty certain that we have a clothes washer where we are staying in Austria. I walked all the way through the pedestrian center of town and couldn’t find it, and finally asked at a shop, and it was back where I started, so I had to walk all the way back to the start. They showed me on a map where the laundry mat was, and I found it pretty easily. I dropped off the clothes and they said they’d be done in about 2 hours. Kindra said the Mitzi needed another warm outfit, so I took most of the kids and went in search of a warm outfit. I found one, and found and internet café. I dropped the kids off at the car and hit the internet café. I had over 300 new emails and my mailbox was full, so I hit the emails as fast as I could. I responded to as many as I could as quickly as possible and deleted a lot of them. By the time my internet session was over the clothes were done, so we picked up the clothes and drove back to the apartment. For once I wasn’t totally exhausted and we fixed dinner and had a bite to eat, although Mitzi and Ian were fast asleep.