Skiing to Italy!

Here we are in Sparky’s, our favorite bar with free wifi and really good potato wedges. We spent a lot of time there checking our email and blogging. And Amy needed to chat with her boyfriend! Okay, so we sat...

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Zermatt Skiing

Our first day in Zermatt! It was neat to wake up, look out the window and see the Matterhorn. The day was perfect blue skies and not too cold, a great day to start our trip. We stopped by a pastry shop to grab some treats...

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Only 15 Hours to Zermatt!

So we woke up at 4:00am to head out to Zermatt. It should be about a ten hour drive and then we take a taxi or train into the town… so we loaded up the car and headed out. Bet all you Californians didn’t know...

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Vienna Adventures with Amy

Cousin Amy came to Vienna a couple days ago and we’ve been having a lot of fun. We gave her a sample itinerary before she arrived and she picked all the places to go. The first stop? The Schatzkammer – Royal Treasury...

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Elora says…

While listening to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir sing America the Beautiful: Elora: “I cried happy tears dad because I loved the song” I read the title of a book, but not the author out loud to Elora. She’s used...

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Christmas Markets

We have been going to some of the Christmas markets the past week. The weather has been beautiful most days, so we thought we should enjoy the markets as much as possible before the weather gets cold! We went to the Rathaus...

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Milk Fort

We bought a new brand of diapers today, and how cool is this? The box was designed to turn into a little castle, complete with a knight and princess to play with. One of my friends took me to the Austrian version of...

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Last Day in Rome

Here is the grand finale of the Rome trip: Our last night in Rome we ordered a pizza… the best part of the pizza in Rome is the cheese, so a got a four cheese pizza. This is how we discovered that most pizza in Rome does...

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Rome: Day 2 – The Vatican

Day 2: The kids woke up early, and it was another nice sunny day. We decided that although the Vatican is pretty far from the rest of the sites that we would walk there first thing in the morning, and then see a few sites on our...

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