The Travels of the Murnane Family: Black Forest

OK...weekend number three..
This weekend Michael and I decided to take the kids sledding at the Black Forest. There is about 5 inches of snow here in Nufringen which is considered alot for this area. There are no snow plows on the residential streets, so it's fun to try to get out. The Germans are amazing at salting the autobahn, but that's about it. No help in the neighborhoods.
So we decided to try something without really knowing what we were doing. Looked up an address punched it into the GPS and set out. The drive there was amazing. I don't even know how to explain what we saw. We drove into a valley and the roads would switch back 180 degrees 10 times within 2 miles. It was beautiful. Jack and the girls were freaked out because there were times you would look out your window and it was a drastic drop straight down. Freaked me out too!
So we finally get to where we are going (with no sleds, because the idiot movers sent our boogie boards for the beach instead of our sleds...idiots..another story for another time. won't get much use out of the boogie boards). so we get there and i have to pee so bad. Now i swear to you, Germans almost encourage public peeing. you either have to pay to use a bathroom or pee outside. And so i found friendly tree and did the business, 5 minutes later, Molly was there, then Jack. Whew...
Then it was time to find a sled. Michael set off to find out how/where to get one and no one knew anything. Ended up going into town to a rental shop to get three sleds (thank goodness).
The hill was small that had a small ski slope and sledding. Sledding was free, not sure about the skiing. It was in the middle of a residential area, cute little find. The kids had a blast. Michael is convinced that Jack is going to be into luge someday, cause that kid laid on his sled everytime and it was never fast enough...should have put a helmet on that kid...
Love you and miss you all...France is next weekend we think...
Sage