My fitbit says I climbed 146 stories today

It's now evening on June 10.  We have (according to my fitbit watch) climbed 146 stories, which I'm guessing is 1,460 feet by fitbit.   That's pretty close.  Oberammergau is at 837 meters above sea level, Kolbensattelhutte (the Kolbensattel hut, where we ate) is at 1276 meters.  Subtract and convert to feet, and that's 1,140 up, not including any variation in between.  Fitbit says we walked over 18,000 steps and over 8.4 miles (which I know is low - fitbit measures steps and guesstimates stride length, and I've tracked it against actual.  Easily 9 miles).  Here's a map of our journey.  Start in town, go up to the Kolbenalm, follow the squiggly red line to the left above that to the fork - left is our aborted attempt to the Kofel, right is up to Kolbensattelhutte.

From a map we found in town.

The Sesselbahn (the T-bar ski lift) brought us from Kolbensattel down to the Ammergau River, a bit north of Oberammergau.  I think we kind of missed the boat here - there was an Alpine Coaster that schussed down the mountain - basically, a mountain-length rollercoaster - but we didn't realize it would take us all the way to the bottom.  Oh well.

We got off the Sesselbahn and walked back to town, and noticed some discount groceries along the way, and loaded up with supplies.  Wine around 2.40 - 5 euro, some soap, cherries, milk... stuff for Sunday.  Then back to the apartment to put groceries in the fridge and load up on ibuprofen.

Back in town, we visited the woodcarver's shops.  Their work absolutely amazes me, and is one of the few places I actually enjoy window shopping.  We haven't bought anything yet, and we will see if we do - we got some 5 years ago, and the prices have not gotten better, but it is truly stunning carving and painting work.

We ended up getting a relatively light dinner at the Hotel Alte Post.  Their spargelsuppe (white asparagus cream soup) is simple and amazing.  I had a salad and a beer from a local monastery.  Judy had some pork in dark beer sauce and a glass of wine.  Then we hobbled back to our apartment.  I want to share some pictures of where we are, because it's a pretty amazing location.  These are from just prior to sunset, which may not do it justice.  More tomorrow.

Our backyard,

Our backyard - think I'll sit and have a glass of wine,

The two windows on the ground floor are for our apartment. 

Yeah, I could stand to stay here for awhile.