Our Home Away From Home!

This was our home away from home - Hotel Zur Post in Ruhpolding, Germany!

It was built in 1308 (NOt a typo!) and became a tavern in 1424. It has been a Rechl family-owned business for over a century, evolving from a historic inn into a modernized hotel, receiving awards for its Bavarian heritage and sustainability.

The first time I stayed here was 13 years ago - and there has been much renovation since yet still retains the old world charm it always has had.

I loved staying here and would come back in a heartbeat.

The best bonus for us?  We stayed here our whole trip, using Ruhpolding as our Bavarian home base, and our day trips  radiated out from here.  It was a wonderful spot to come "home" to!

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Snow, Glorious Snow!

Hi guys!  I'm home!

And no, this was not my view last evening - but it WAS the view this morning as the sun came up over the ridge and let me know that blue sky and sunshine does happen!

We arrived in New York on Sunday afternoon.

By the time we went through customs and gathered our luggage, waving good bye to folks who had become family over the past 10 days...wandering off to catch our next flights, or an Uber, or in my case - taking the air train to where I would jump into a hotel shuttle, it was nearly 4:30pm.

By the time I'd checked into my hotel, made it up to my room and unloaded my stuff, it was close to 5:30pm.

My body said it was 1:30am!

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Lupine & Laughter Mystery - Part Three!

It's Friday again!
And here we are at part three of our Lupine & Laughter Mystery.
Part one focused on one unit.
Part two had us creating two different color ways of geese!
Guess what part three means?
Three different sizes of half-square triangles!
Don't worry - this trend isn't likely to continue, but I thought since the tutorial for all of these was basically the same we'd make some major headway by getting these done at the same time.

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Lupine & Laughter Mystery - Part Two!

It's Friday!!  It's Lupine Mystery, Part Two Day!

I hope you are ready to really dig in today.

I've spent some time writing some parts ahead with all that is going on with my family - and as this posts my life is full of travelers and airports and amazing destinations!

Of course, this also means I'm flying by the seat of my pants and hoping that there are no hiccups, no misdirected or broken links and that all is going along swimmingly until I once again can connect to hotel Wi-Fi from Bavaria. 

Remember - it's not a race, we are taking things as they come with this mystery season, and if all else fails I'll fix it when I get home. Is there some holiday baking that you can do in the meantime? I'm sure there is.

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