We went to the Nazi Documentation that told all about Hitler's rise to power, what the Nazi's did, the key figures in the Nazi party, and saw the bunkers they had built at Hitler's "Eagles Nest" at Burchtesgaden. It was pretty sad.

After the Nazi Documentation we went on a walk through the pretty forests of the area.

Then we had a treat on at a restaurant that overlooked the whole area. Brecken's was huge.

We had a great family dinner.

6-7-10 Monday
Hill intervals, went to go to Eagle’s Nest, but ended up just doing the documentation tour on Berchtesgaden, Hitler, and WWII. This morning I did hill intervals. One nice thing is that although we are about 12 days into our trip, I’ve actually been able to lose a little bit of weight. Not much, but I’m down around 178, which is about 8 pounds less than I was about 3 weeks ago. I’d like to get down under 170 by the time we hit the French Alps in about 4 weeks, and then stay there the rest of the trip. One of my cycling goals for the year is to have a descent time up Alp d’Huez, and I can’t do that if I’m too heavy. The other key is to get in some good workouts and build up my climbing strength. Part of that is done by doing hill intervals which aren’t particularly fun, but do make you stronger. I rode to Filzmoos which is a small ski town about 8 miles from here, then did intervals up the hill just past the town. The grade and scenery are kind of like the upper part of Big Cottonwood canyon.
We still didn’t do a great job being ready and leaving any earlier, and didn’t leave the house until almost 2pm, despite me telling everyone they needed to be ready to go by about noon. I threatened them that they better be ready earlier tomorrow. We went up to Berchtesgaden which is where Hitler had his Eagle’s Nest. We took the Documentation tour which tells all about Hitler’s rise to power, the history of the area, a lot of the Nazi history including the atrocities committed, and ends with a tour of the bunker complex there. It was pretty complex with lots of shafts and rooms. It was pretty sad hearing about all the atrocities of the war that were committed and kind of amazes me that there were so many “smart” people that went along with Hitler and were exterminating the Jew, gypsies, and anyone that got in their way. It was too late after our tour to take the bus up to the Eagle’s Nest, and they said that it wouldn’t be real great anyway as there were too many clouds, so after the tour we went on a little hike, then I took them to a gausthaus to have a treat. They had a flyer for this place advertising their desserts at the ticket place to the documentation tour. They were these huge puff pastries filled with ice-cream and whipped cream, and covered with cherries and sauce. They were pretty dang good, and the view over the valley was fantastic. We came back to the chalet and made linguini and salad for dinner.
This is kindra. It has been pretty fun with the kids, they have been better than I thought they would be and have been helping with making dinners, cleaning up and doing chores. The “chalet” is beautiful and it is on a very steep hill with forests surrounding us. It has 4 floors and tons of room. The doors in the chalet are all very old salvaged doors. One has a date painted with toll painting which is dated 1627. I love the doors here, they are all very unique. We are watching “spongebob” in german. Ha! It is pretty funny that they have a lot of the same things that we have at home.