So we were told that we needed to go to Croatia by the MA35 people to renew our passport stamps. We were thinking “Croatia, isn’t that like the war zone place?”. But that was soooo 10 years ago apparently. Here...
Archive - January 2009
We spent Friday driving around looking at castles. There are a ton of them around Salzburg. The first one we went to was Hohenwerfen, which was actually closed on the inside, so we just took some pics of the castle from various...
So Chris likes to take pictures while skiing, one was put up in the previous post. He was curious what he looks like while doing this, so I took a pic for him… I wonder why he wiped out on day one? Could it be he was so...
Chris made crepes for lunch today, which Elora calls roll pancakes. She had a couple left on her plate, and Chris sprinkled some powdered sugar on them for her. She said, “Thank you!” and I said, “You’re...
We went on a fun drive through the mountains in our rental car, and passed a lot of fun castles and ruins. We thought how nice it would be if we had a car so we could come back and explore all these fun places. The mountain roads...
On the way home today, a lady got on the bus wearing a big fluffy orange fur coat, along with an awesome fur hat. Elora kept staring at her and finally said (in a very serious, contemplative voice), “That lady looks like a...
Random thoughts by Karen, with a few by Chris (first commenter to guess who wrote each wins some Viennese chocolates!) Europeans are very snobbish toward McDonalds, as they should be, with the exception of the fact that they LOVE...
On New Year’s Eve we went to a dinner party with a Frenchman, aRussian, a Brazilian, and an Italian. A couple of Mormons walked inand said, “If you can think of a good joke, let me know.” No really,we went to a...
This will conclude our Garmisch posting. I feel like Oliver gets alittle ignored in the posting sometimes, since he doesn’t walk aroundyet… but he is a really sweet baby who loves to play and is usuallya happy little...
We went on a horse and carraige ride with Chris’ dad one night. Elorawas still sick and had to stay home with Nana and watch Cinderella.The carriage ride was an educational experience – we learned a lotabout the...