I worked for hours uploading these pictures back in April before we left for somewhere... now I can't even remember but saved it as a draft and now am finally getting back to it. I am not sure what I was waiting for... At any rate here are some pictures of our really fun and beautiful week in Rauris, Austria skiing. When we found out we were lucky enough to get stationed overseas the first thing Jim and I both said was "YES! we are totally going skiing in the ALPS" For some reason that has been a long lived dream of ours. The snow was wonderful, the mountains were beautiful and the weather was great for a few days of it. Looking forward to next years ski adventure and just trying to decide where we will go... Switzerland? France? We loved it but everyone was in agreement.... we liked it enough but we were missing our favorite - Homewood at Lake Tahoe!
Patrick in lower right corner
Coming back from the pool!
Emma just chillin' loking out the window.
Patrick enjoying the local fare of yummy pretzels
worth it for the view though...
my little skiers
Heading back to the apartment after another awesome day on the slopes
Jim and I
Following the leader
Jim with Jack who has a cheek FULL of skittles!
Jack with his ski school class
Jack getting his certificate with his new friend Cara who was also in his class.
Patrick on one of the cloudy days
Jack getting his 9th place medal. Good thing his favorite German word he learned during the week with 7 German speaking kids and 3 English speaking kids was.... "nein" (no)
the little village of Rauris
all the snowboarders went in for lunch! The British Army had a group of snowboarders there doing an "exercise" for 2 weeks. Lucky us. They took over the place. The best day skiing was Saturday when they had the day "off".
Snowing....
Emma
another of Emma
Emma watching Jack follow Jim down the hill.
the boys
The night we arrived we went out for pizza and this is the crew walking up the road to our apartment for the week. There was a pool and hot tub and just across the street were the ski lifts. It was a great location and super easy to get to the slopes each morning.
I tried to get a picture of us heading into the airport so early in the morning that it was still dark out but... this is what I got instead. Everyone had to wear their snow boots and jackets on the plane since they wouldn't fit in our bags! Patrick is blocking the huge ski bag Jim is also pulling alongside him. So happy we got that bag - we stuffed a lot of extra stuff in there besides his ski's!
Patrick in lower right corner
Coming back from the pool!
Emma just chillin' loking out the window.
family up on the balcony
Patrick enjoying the local fare of yummy pretzels
Jack needed a little help getting up the hill!
worth it for the view though...
my little skiers
Heading back to the apartment after another awesome day on the slopes
Jim and I
Following the leader
Jim with Jack who has a cheek FULL of skittles!
Jack with his ski school class
Jack getting his certificate with his new friend Cara who was also in his class.
Patrick on one of the cloudy days
Jack getting his 9th place medal. Good thing his favorite German word he learned during the week with 7 German speaking kids and 3 English speaking kids was.... "nein" (no)
the little village of Rauris
all the snowboarders went in for lunch! The British Army had a group of snowboarders there doing an "exercise" for 2 weeks. Lucky us. They took over the place. The best day skiing was Saturday when they had the day "off".
Snowing....
Emma
another of Emma
Emma watching Jack follow Jim down the hill.
the boys
The night we arrived we went out for pizza and this is the crew walking up the road to our apartment for the week. There was a pool and hot tub and just across the street were the ski lifts. It was a great location and super easy to get to the slopes each morning.
I tried to get a picture of us heading into the airport so early in the morning that it was still dark out but... this is what I got instead. Everyone had to wear their snow boots and jackets on the plane since they wouldn't fit in our bags! Patrick is blocking the huge ski bag Jim is also pulling alongside him. So happy we got that bag - we stuffed a lot of extra stuff in there besides his ski's!
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