This is our tour guide Walter who also reprimanded me for talking to Cherie on the bus while he was talking. B thought he did it in good natured way, but that’s makes FOUR reprimands. i think I need etiquette training??
After the bike tour ended, The Zimmermans, the Saxtons, B and I took a detour to see the Eagle’s nest. Continue reading
07/20/13 In the morning, for our last day of the biking tour we went on a walking tour of Salzburg. Maybe if we had gone on a walking tour of Munich I would have a different impression of Munich, but I thought Salzburg was beautiful.
Cherie and I coordinating our outfits before we start riding. She actually went on a totally different adventure to an ice cave. It took them four extra hours to get to Salzburg.
I tried to take a photo of the riders behind me while I was riding. I got a great photo of a corner of my helmet and Cherie blurred behind me.
Dinner out by the lake Zell am see. Great friends, great laughs, good food, great view…doesn’t get much better…..at least I didn’t think so until the next day! B is taking the photo.
07/17/13 Today we took a gondola up to the top of the ski resort on Mt. Schmittenhöhe. Ahhhh I am in my happy place, hiking up there! It was gorgeous beyond words, the hills were some killer climbing and it could have only been more perfect if Continue reading
I can’t help but compare everything to our Italy trip. I forgot so much about Italy after I got home, that I’ve never finished my photo book. This is why I must blog about this trip daily because my memory is not good enough to wait. I am being reminded constantly by the other couples on this trip about Italy though. Not every couple from last year is here this year. It’s only five out of the ten from last year and three new couples. I think the others expected the trip to be just as hard as last year. So far, It’s not even close! It is so totally different that I trained totally wrong. Last year, I trained on a hybrid bike (road/mountain bike) and only on Porter Rockwell trail a couple rides per week. And then we were on road bikes only on roads up hills in the heat for 6 hours a day. We earned our calories. So this year I trained on only a road bike for long distances up and down hills. Well….we are not on road bikes. Continue reading
We invited our guide and his wife (Ron and Alfreida) to go to church. It was really really cool. I’ll be honest and say, I didn’t really want to spend the time going, I wanted to see as much of Europe as I could – but I can also be honest enough to say I am so glad we did, because this was a really great part of Europe to see. Singing hymns I know in English while listening to the german, hearing an exchange student from CA speak, the missionary from UT speak and the other one translating for us the whole time, was priceless. I am proud of Master D being out in the world, knowing he’s helping other people and having to step out of his comfort zone. What an amazing bunch of young men!
July 13, 2013 Our hotel in Munich – I slept almost the entire flight. B got motion sick, did not sleep and slept the whole first day while I went out exploring with friends.
Back in December when my friend, Cami, told me that she’d never been on a girls’ trip, of course I had to set a plan in motion. What better first girl’s trip than New York? And it just so happened, we (Shyloh, Cami and I) had signed up to run Ogden Marathon again. So, as a reward Continue reading
Lelu only spent one day surfing – the wet suit doesn’t allow for getting a tan or checking out the multiple young attractive boys playing volleyball
This could be a postcard – Lelu and Landon loving the sunset. I can’t help but think “God loves us!!” every time I look at something this amazing!
The tandem bike is a great idea IN THEORY for kids to have fun….not so much in practice. Note to self -Next time I will not be talked into it.
We ate at a nice restaurant one night. As B and I were enjoying our salads, the manager came over and said “Did you not get food for the children?” I said “no they ate yesterday” What kind of parents do we look like?
You know I almost named him Noah, I thought Noah and Ariel would be cute together….not even knowing they’d be such ocean loving, surfing loving die hards. They were out there for a minimum of three hours for three days.
This is the only photo of me, you know ‘the mom behind the camera predicament’. This is how I spent a bit of the time they were surfing. Walking up and down the beach. As it seems it’s one of my all time favorite activities. I happened upon a seal playing in the surf and wished I took my phone with me to snap a photo, so I sat and watched it long enough to soak in the coolness of the moment and burning the image into my brain.
Did you know this CA boy had never surfed before? I didn’t. But now he has and he was gnarly! Is that even a surfing word? One of these years I’ll get out there too. I took up running at 40, B took up surfing at 50 – so 45 sounds about right? Next year…
We hired the same instructor as last year and he remembered us. Ari was very well named – water and the surfboard just seems a part of her. She hasn’t stopped campaigning to move down there.
We attempted to play volleyball – Me, Christina, Landon, Wyatt, Lelu, TT and Ari. Let me just say it was very evenly matched in a ‘none of us knew how to actually play’. And it was fun until I got nailed in the face with the ball!
We actually came home on Easter Sunday, so this year the Easter Bunny just happened to see us on the street the night before and had no baskets for anyone. It was a little sad, but since we had just spent five days at the beach – the Easter bunny did not feel very much guilt. What’s up with the boys and their hoodies? I just noticed that.
Huntington Beach is officially one of our favorite places to go – especially for Spring Break. We played all day, the kids were wiped out fairly early and B and I got out our laptops – isn’t the tech age amazing? Homework and work didn’t have to be totally neglected while the kids thoroughly enjoyed their spring break. I love those win-wins! We got to hang out with Christina and the boys a couple days, and Jeff, Christina and the boys for a day. Jeff was inspired to try to surf too since B did. I just didn’t catch any photo ops for him. Wyatt showed us all how it’s done and Landon toughed it out without a rash guard – suffering some wicked surfboard rash.