Food, Glorious Food!

Nils gives the food here two thumbs up!


































Jay eating with the kids from the Kinderbetreuung (Kiddie Care). He doesn't want to have anything to do with us anymore!

As practically everyone knows, Jay and Nils are not interested in food. For Jay, even sweets and dessert are not too interesting. Except ice cream, of course. Every night there is ice cream for dessert here. Naturally, the kids will eat so they can have ice cream. But it doesn't stop there- they really eat quite well here!

Austria at Night

Here are some photos of us at night. The hotel had a nighttime stroll with torch-candles. We also went to the local Weihnachtsmarkt. The temperature was -16 or so and very, very cold, so a Gluehwein was very welcome.

Austria Holiday

We were in Austria for two weeks to ski and relax. M was overdue for a long vacation and the boys and I really should learn to ski. We chose an amazing hotel; we can't believe how lucky we were. We searched and searched for weeks on the internet, not knowing if we wanted a hotel or a house, not knowing which part of Austria we wanted to be in, nothing. We were happy with our choice before we arrived, but once we got there- WOW. We fell into holiday mode right away, normally it takes a couple of days to finally relax (and the fourteen hour drive, full or traffic, did not help either!).

I'm just adding a few photos at a time. Here are some from our first day, when we decided to go outside sledding. We met the cat (Amadeus) and the kids had a lot of fun playing with him.

Football Ole!

We took the kids to their first professional soccer game. They've been to hockey games, but never soccer (in Germany, go figure). Our local team worked its way from the third league to the second league last season. So we went to go see them on a Sunday afternoon with some friends. At the end of the game (we won), our team was in the top two of the table. At the end of each season, the top two teams from each league move into the league above and the bottom two fall to the league below. Needless to say, the crowd was pretty excited.

ps- it was COLD too. Note Nils in his hooligan gear. If an adult came dressed like that, the stadium staff would probably not let him in!