Grant won a *MAJOR AWARD* from the PTA's Reflections program this spring. He wrote a poem titled, "Climbing a Tree Within Reach" for his enrichment class (which is the precursor to the gifted program - they don't put second graders in the gifted program.) Well, he wound up winning first place in all of Europe for all elementary school submittals! We are SO proud of him! They had an awards ceremony at the Edelweiss Resort down in Garmisch that we went to so we could support our little buddy!
T-shirts from all of the represented schools!
EEEEEK! How handsome are these two?!?!
He's such a ham walking the red carpet! Isn't it awesome that I got two uses out of this white suit!?!
This one though... am I in trouble, or what? She's dying to walk the red carpet, anywhere and everywhere!
So they call Grant up to receive his first place award for his poem, and they have a photographer there who was taking some pictures and of COURSE he cannot be serious. The child has no idea how to be serious. He had the room in stitches!
OK that's a little better, but he still looks like he's up to something!
Getting all of the kids up on stage with their awards was like herding cats.
He knows Daddy is taking his picture so of course, he makes this face.
If you want to know what exactly it was that won him FIRST PLACE in the Reflections contest, it was this lovely poem written Dr. Seuss style. He wrote it in his enrichment class (which is the precursor to the gifted program.) I had to ask him... Singapore? Really? How does he even know what or where Singapore is??? And of course, in typical boy style, he just shrugged and said, "I don't know!"
One of my two bright and shining stars.
Mrs. Lockhart was his kindergarten teacher a couple of years ago, and she is pretty involved in the PTSA so she was there with her sweet husband. We made Grant and Billy Overton snap a pic with Mrs. Lockhart. See? He smiles nice sometimes!
Aaaaaaand then we are back to this! Where does he get this?!?
That's my boy. We are so proud of him!
We clean up pretty nice!
After the ceremony, we went back to our room for some lovely views of the Alps at dusk.
Under the Alps and moon and stars.
Here is what it looks like in the morning, panorama style. I never get tired of the views in Garmisch. I think I've actually said that line here on this blog before, but it's so true. We snapped a few pics after breakfast and sped off to Munich because our friends Kern and Dorothy were flying in from Seattle in the afternoon.
PLUS, we wanted to get to Munich, get checked into our hotel and find a place to watch the royal wedding of Meghan Markle and Prince Harry!
I actually bought a day package of unlimited data so I could just live stream the wedding from the BBC website. Quick! Let's go to the English Garden and sit under the Chinese Tower and watch the wedding!
I'm obsessed, leave me alone. My kids were pretty into it, too!
If you can't be AT the actual wedding, I'm pretty sure this was the second best place. With a Maß of beer on a sunny day in the English Garden in Munich! I love that I captured the moment Harry was putting the ring on Meghan's finger.
He truly insists on doing this! Hey Meghan Markle, are you ready for this? This is what happens when you've been together for 15 years!
OK that's a little better! Also I just realized... did you know that a Maß is as big as my head? Maybe bigger! Pro tip: Don't forget to return those massive mugs and get your pfand back when you're done!
We have been to the English Garden many times, but we have never actually gone down and watched the surfers on the Eisbach River. It's in the southern part of the garden on Prinzregentenstrasse and it's great fun to watch. (Google Eisbachwelle if you're in Munich and want to see this!)
Who says you need to be near the ocean to surf!? There is a pipe under the bridge we are standing on that funnels the water through very quickly and spits it out on the other side, making these great waves. Surfers stand in line and go one at a time, alternating from each side of the river. If they manage to stay up, it seems like everyone was really respectful of the other surfers and would purposely fall so that everyone got a chance to surf in the cold, fast moving water. They float down stream a bit and hop out on the concrete side of the river embankment and get back in line for another try.
The area is pretty famous, so lots of people come out to watch the surfers. I really wanted to be a judge and give them numbers based on their performance!
After we watched the surfers for a bit, we went back to the hotel to pick up our friends Kern and Dorothy who had just arrived after a long trip from Seattle. The first stop (naturally) was the Hofbräuhaus!
My husband is a bad influence. Kern thought it was funny that Todd does this to me and now had to do it to Dorothy!
Having fun at the Hofbräuhaus! Prost!
The next morning, the kids and I had to get back home to get ready for the week but Todd, Kern and Dorothy stayed in Munich for another night. Todd took them down to the Marienplatz and they were having a rally for FC Bayern München! Todd said that the rally wasn't for another hour or so, so they didn't stick around because he didn't figure Kern and Dorothy wanted to. Hence, he did not get any pictures of Manuel Neuer for me! Boo..... But he did get me a flag!
Oh my word... Grant has been randomly obsessed with the Illuminati lately and Todd found THIS in Munich! Did you know that in 1776, the Bavarian Illuminati was formed? It's was a real, secret group that was formed to oppose the influence of religion in government.
This looks about right.
Their time in Munich was capped off by yet another trip to the English Garden for another Maß of beer. Next it was back to our home for a few days of traveling around local cities, like Nuremberg, Regensberg and Bamberg! Meanwhile, I had to work...…..
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