As you can probably see we are loving our skiing. Dan and I took the kids to Garmish for a weekend ski trip. This is very close to Austria and to Cindrella's castle in Neuschwanstein. We are so lucky that we can spend so much quality time together doing something we all like. After skiing we all played in the pool. Dan was off to the saunas soon after followed by Paige. They are two in the same.
Dan had to go back to the States last week so the kids and I are by ourselves for 2weeks. Last week the kids also had a week off of school. This is due to fasching.(Karneval week) Fasching is very similar to Mardi Gras. It's also a time of breaking the rules and poking fun of government. There are many parades and costumes all around. Instead of going to the parades though the kids wanted to do more skiing. So, off we went to find another mountain to tackle. It wasn't much of a mountain though. It was more of a hill. The kids had a great time and we went through many seasons as Paige says. It was sunny when we got there, rained, snowed and rained some more.
This brings us to Saturday and Sunday of this past weekend. Our very good friend Seth Crawford went with us to Feldberg, Germany for a day of skiing. I wish I had my camera to share all the wonderful sights we saw. Sunday we stayed busy most of the day by ice skating. Christian told me he was a speed skater. Paige obviously was going to be figure skating. It's been fun exposing the kids to some of the winter sports since the Olympics are on. Now when we do our winter sports they can relate to what they see on tv.
Hope winter is coming to an end were you are. Spring brings so many new adventures for us. April Dan has planned a trip to France for us and May we are looking to hit the high seas on a Greek Cruise. Much to look forward to.
Sending all our love. Thanks for reading.
Ang
Monday, February 22, 2010
In Honor of the Olympics
Monday, February 15, 2010
Sunday, February 7, 2010
Skiing And More Snow
To all the faithful followers of the blog sorry for the delay of writing. January has been an eventful month. We returned home from Iowa to have a delay in Heathrow airport for 7 hours. People ask if we were suppose to fly through Heathrow and the answer is yes. We were lucky that we only had to delay for 7 hours. 2 days before the whole airport was shut down due to snow.
The rest of the month we spent skiing as many weekends as we could. Thank goodness it snowed and snowed for most of the month. One weekend we went to Oberstdorf, Germany. We spent a wonderful day with friends and a couple of gluvines. This mountain was a little harder than what we skied in Serfaus, Austria. I took Paige down a black mountain sort of. Dan said it was blue...NOT. Her ski ended up falling off on the way down and she slid down the whole run screaming and snow flying. I had to laugh as we picked up the carnage on the way down. To her credit she did ski down the rest of the way with her Dad's help. She spent the rest of the day skiing on the blue hill and having a blast. One little accident didn't hold her down.
The boys had a weekend on their own last weekend. Dan,Christian and 3 other friends went skiing in Innsbruck, Austria home of the 1964 and 1976 Winter Olympic Games. Christian said that it was probably a good idea that Paige and I didn't go. They skied hard. I kept hearing the same words from more than one person. Now that I hear stories of what happened I think it's best we didn't go. Christian was telling me how he was going off boxes and getting mad air. It was really "street". I saw some of the bruises and tired bodies during the week. Dan likes to say that a good time was had by all.
This weekend we were going to go to a local ski area but decided last minute Christian had too much of a cough to go. This did not sit well with him as you could imagine. Next weekend we are back on the slopes down in Garmisch. This is in Bavaria. Happy Valentines Day to us and Happy Valentines Day to you.