Weekend Recap: Swimming in Bavarian Mountain Spring Water

This 4th of July weekend, my mom and I went to a swimming pool we had never been to before. Garmisch and Grainau have some pretty awesome public swimming pools with spectacular views of the Bavarian Alps, but we decided to change up the scenery a bit and make the trip out to the WellenBerg Schwimmbad in the Alpine town of Oberammergau. 
Our jaws hit the floor when we saw it.

There are three outdoor pools, which include a lap pool, a spring-fed pool (mountain water), and a hot warm pool with jets. There's also a diving tower, a wade pool for the kiddos, and 2 professionally designed sand volleyball courts.

The aqueduct that carries fresh mountain spring water to the natural swimming pool.

This water was freeeeeeeeeeeeezing!! I've swam in some pretty cold water before, but this was beyond chilly! I froze my butt off! It felt so amazing though.

Indoors, there's suspended lounge chairs, a sauna, another lap pool, children's pool, hot warm pool, and two water slides.

This is the outdoor "hot" pool which stays at a warm 93 degrees. It has underwater LED lights and reclining bubble beds! The reclining bubble beds are out of this world! I never even knew such a thing existed.

 I could lay there all day long.

All that was missing was a frozen margarita and some good music.

Reclining bubble beds. Holy mother!

This picture is a little misleading -- the bubble bed looks flat, but it's actually in the shape of a recliner. You can see pictures of what it looks like here, without water.

After our super relaxing day at the pool, we headed back to Garmisch and freshened up for dinner. We were originally supposed to go to a free BBQ on the military base, but we were a couple hours late, so all the food was gone! We decided to go to our favorite pizza place that makes real Italian pizza in a brick oven.

Absolutely delicious.

And of course, since it was 4th of July, I had to represent and wear my cowboy boots.
Howdy y'all. :)

During the summer months, it doesn't get dark in Germany until about 10pm so that's when the military base was going to be doing the fireworks. While we were at dinner, we sat outside under the covered patio. The wind began to pick up and it started drizzling. We were kinda bummed we might not get to see the fireworks, but after stuffing our faces with pizza, we were almost glad it was raining... we were so stuffed and so worn out from swimming all day.

Fireworks or no fireworks, we had a happy 4th. :)

Happy 4th!!!

It's the 4th of July!

We kicked off the day with a little fun in the sun by the pool.

We soaked up some sun rays with our friends, Tommy and Kristi, and Zach's brother Trent, his wife Adrian, and their little cutie patootie Taylan. 

Zach and Tommy played volleyball bolleyball {that's what we call it 'round these parts} while Kristi and I played with little TayTay. Trent was on baby duty today since that's usually Adrian's job when the little guy gets sleepy. Mommas need their "me" time too!

After a little swimming and some bbq, Zach and I headed home to meet up with my big sister, Jenny.

The three of us went to the Nutty Brown Cafe & Amphitheater to see Bob Schneider and watch the firework show. 

We missed the first couple bands, but we saw the one before Bob Schneider came one. And we drank margaritas. YUM! They were so tasty! And we talked to the pretty parrot. :) And people watched. {Boy, were there some characters!}

I can't wait to go back and actually try some food. The stuff on their menu sounds delicious! 

Finally, Bob came on and we jammed out a little. Later we watched the fireworks and surprisingly Bob played again after. Zach wasn't feelin' it though because he had to be up and ready for work at 4am! So he was counting every last second until the show was finally over. 4am shifts are such a bummer. But sister and I had a really good time. :)

Jen has been listening to Bob Schneider since forever ago. We used to ride in her truck with her when we were little and listen to him. She's also got a boy-toy crush on the dude. Scruffiness and all! Who doesn't like a little scruffiness?!

I'm glad I got to spend this day with great friends and family.

I hope everyone's 4th was amazing!

Happy 4th of July! :)