I won't have time to post my pics until tonight but I agree: we had a wonderful time.
Filou was more social than I would have expected. If you bring your face close to him he will be happy to carefully analyze whether your make-up is good quality He was happy with Karen's

Tigris recognized immediately that we had some international cat scritchie specialists here and showed his chin and his belly, purring and looking VERY happy.

Karen and Alec brought the best catnip ever. Looks like UK catnip can compete with Canadian The catnip company has a gorgeous website with pics of happy customers: www.sparkipuss.com

The first evening we had dinner in a countryside pub. The next day we were going downtown Munich with sights (churches from gothic to rococo ) windowshopping (there is a department store where they have windows sponsored by Steiff, that famous stuffed animals company and they are full of little details like kitties playing on the roof, a goat kid and a rabbit being goofy at the window- it all moves and I love it every year

Finally it started to be a little darker and we approached the main Christmas market. Karen and Alec bought some wooden tree ornaments like a little angel made out of wood shavings. they also bought a feathered angel (I'm not sure whether that one was for Samantha, Jessica and Daisy ). Plus they bought some gingerbread variations.

We went to a second Christmas markets where they have more jewelry, ceramics. They bought a funny moskito out of copper thread with big green eyes who will have to scare away all the other moskitoes in their garden.

Then we had dinner at the Franziskaner- a very classical Bavarian place. We had roast goose with blue cabbage, potato dumpling and gravy- very much Bavarian Christmas.

We would never have gone downtown on a pre-Christmas saturday without guests- but it opened our eyes as well to see it all with a little tourist distance. Munich is really a very picturesque town, especially at this time of the year- and it was so much fun