On January 6th we planned on going to the small town of Baden with our friends Om and Sawreeta. At the last minute Sawreeta had to work, so Om came with us and the kids. Baden is a town that is built around a natural spring that...
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New Years was awhile ago, but here it is anyway! For New Years we went to our Nepali friend’s house Om and Sarweeta (we just learned how to spell her name) for a Momo party. If you don’t know what Momo is yet, you...
Christmas morning! We put Elora’s stocking in her room, but she didn’t even notice… she just came to wake us up, and then I decided since we were all awake anyhow, we could open the stockings up in the...
We still had a rental car on Christmas Eve day, so we decided to drive out to Bratislava in Slovakia. It is only an hour away, and a lot of people in Vienna go there for cheaper shopping. We saw there are castle ruins there, so...
One other really neat feature of the Christmas markets here is that there are some neat activities for kids! Elora is finally old enough to participate in some of the neat activities, so a couple times last week I met up...
We have tried to spend a lot of time going to Christmas markets this year, since it is supposed to be our last Vienna Christmas (sigh…) So here are some pics from various markets we have gone to in the past couple...
Who needs European hot chocolate? We had Swiss Miss! More good views of the Matterhorn. We had clear blue skies for the last few days of skiing. Amy and I were totally sore and only skiied half days, but Chris was a super all...
Up up we go in a packed gondola. Everyone was ready to enjoy the slopes after yesterdays stormy weather. After our crazy stormy day, we headed up into the cloudy mountains to find that the sun was shining at the top...
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...
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...