Our Weekend At Music Camp

Hi Mom,

Thought we'd let you know how we spent this weekend (15-18 September).

First of all, it is the first weekend of Oktoberfest!!  The big tents are up, the people are arriving, and Saturday they bring in the beer in (symbolically) horse drawn wagons.  We had to come back from the mountains on Saturday to babysit for Vivienne and Svea.  Bernie and Anja had a wedding to go to.  Well, driving into Munich near the Deutschesmuseum, we find ourselves behind a Hofbräu beer wagon.  Had to take the picture out of the window of the car.

Hofbräu Beerwagon

 Anyway, that was the side show.  Thursday we made our annual trip up to Schliersee and Josefstal to have a 3 day musical experience with the school choir.  Emily and Evelyn have been doing this for over a decade.  Always an interesting time, usually a good time.  Here are some pictures of what goes on with the camp.

The kids with our choreographer practicing some dance moves

A little more formal sitting and practicing the singing.  Evelyn checking the notes for singing.

Evelyn and Emily.  Evelyn was complaining she was never in the pictures so we corrected that.

And of course behind the scenes work.  Katy preparing snacks.  That had been my job on Friday while Katy had to be teaching

 The nice thing about the trip is the location at the edge of the mountains.  Usually on Sunday, they finish up with a hike to the waterfall a little over a half mile away by the shorter route.  We were anticipating a big rainstorm on Sunday, so we walked on Friday.  It was beautiful weather, as you can see, and it did pour down today.  I got up both mornings and ran.  It was fantastic!

The kids starting the hike, with Emily heading the wrong way.  She forgot something.

We took the longer way, about a mile, and were rewarded with these scenes.

More above the waterfall

 Eventually we did reach our destination.  Not too much water on Friday, probably really gushing today and tomorrow.  It is an annual pilgrimage.  Glad we made it, and glad we went the long way.

A couple of the kids at the waterfall

A little bit of a close up.  Nice way to take an hour and a half break.

 Anyway, we had missed this last year, and who knows about next.  It was a nice way to spend the weekend, and the first time I was able to be there for Thursday evening and Friday.  I usually didn't get to go up until Friday after classes.