MERRY XMAS FROM AUSTRIA!!!!!!!

NANA, UNCLE JOHN, AND MARIANNE IN AUSTRIA

AUSTRIAN ADVENTURE!!

Here we are in Kirchdorf Austria, near St. Johann and Kitzbuhl. We spent an incredible week here with Rob's Uncle John (from Sacramento) and Nana Barb and her friend Marianne (from Michigan). The weather was gorgeous...sunny EVERY day and not too cold. The kids had three days of ski school, and they actually liked it!! Plus, they are both quite natural at it (taking after Daddy for sure)! We took a sleigh ride around Kirchdorf with a nice family from Poland and sampled the local schnapps along the way, while singing Christmas carols...what an awesome time, probably the high light of the trip! Here is Tori and Kony, her ski instructor. Streicher's instructor's name was Russ, and he told us that Streicher was the best in his class (out of three students...hahahhah).

CHRISTMAS IN GARMISH (GRAINAU)

These photos were taken just a few minutes walk from our charming German apartment where we spent Christmas. We went sledding, made snow angels and played around in the big open fields where we saw alot of cross country skiers. While in Garmish we also took a cog train up to the Zugspitz, spent time at the town Christmas market sipping hot cocoa, and had lunch at the Edelweis lodge (an Armed Forces Recreation resort...which is located at the foot of the mountains). I told Rob that we should both start looking for possible job openings at the nearby base...what a dream assignment that would be!!