Wednesday, September 21, 2011

Big Trees and German Food

My mom complained today that THE BLOG has been DEAD lately.

S-O-R-R-Y my dear necklace-Lee, it's been crazy here and hot and tired and lots of stuff to do, home work every day after school, and - and - and .... AND I have my "au-pair" (aka sister) still here.

This weekend we decided to drag Julia out on the trail and show her the beautiful Muir Woods, north of San Francisco.

She was "VERY" excited about it (I think Pier 39 was more her cup of tea) but we tortured her anyways and bribed her with a good meal at my favorite German Restaurant in San Fran.

So off we went to escape the heat and recharge the batteries out in the woods.



H-E-L-L-O BIG trees!!!


Breathtaking! 



Lulu found a heart in the woods :)



My hiking-crazy kiddos






The Pumpkin Face





Still smiling ;)


Junior Blogger in action


This is her pic :)



The Wild Hog Tree


The CRAZY CZs



Anakin Skywalker Pose 1


The Knot-Tree


The Grumpy-Old Troll



Red cheeks but still smiling ...
... for the camera ... in real life she was cursing in German something about darn trail and no AC :)




Anakin Skywalker Pose 2
LOVE it!!!






Tired Lulu



A new friend


Check out the trail we just walked ... cool!


Back on the shuttle to the car.


A little foot massage anybody ;)


The Golden Gate in its best light ...


Beautiful view coming back into the CITY


YUMMMM .... "Walzwerk" hands down the BEST EAST German Restaurant in the Bay Area.

The owners come from Thueringen, where I come from, part of East Germany.
The food is AMAZING and the restaurant is full with good old memorabilia.

I LOVE coming here ... a bit of home far-far-away.


Die Genossen!
Marx, Engels und Lenin.


OH SOOO GOOD!!! 



AND BETTER!!!


The German coming out of my L.


One happy hiker girl :)


Fuer Oma


Fewa, Atta und so viel mehr.
SO SUPER COOL!!!!


Nana ... ha-ha-ha


Maxhuette



Kalter Hund



"Seid bereit. Immer bereit!"


The last bite was too much for them ;)


And so we introduced Julia to the "wilderness" and had ourselves an awesome meal!

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