{Innsbruck, Austria} 15-17 Jan 2011

Over the 3 day weekend, the kids and I drove up to meet Mark in Innsbruck. He's up in Stuttgart with work for an indefinite amount of time--so we met 1/2 way. We really had a great time seeing the sights of Innsbruck & had beautiful weather.

This is the hotel where we stayed.

Sat. afternoon we took the bus into downtown Innsbruck and walked around the New Town.

We made a visit to The Ferdinandeum Museum.

This was a few pieces of a very "freaky" art display.

outside the museum

This was a church steeple right outside our hotel.

St. James' Cathedral

Helblinghaus

a street in the Old Town

a view of the River Inn

Inside the Museum of Tyrolean Folk Art

Wilten Collegiate Church

Wilten Basilica

Bergisel Stadium

a view from the top--we also ate lunch at the top too :)

at the bottom of the ski jump

Ambras Castle

Swarovski Crystal Worlds

this bird costs 12,000 euro!!!

Enjoy :)

Ciao!

{attempt #1 to go skiing} 8 Jan 2011

We wanted to take the kids skiing today. It was raining when we left, but wasn't suppose to be when we got there. The GPS took us up a VERY windy road up the mountain & then the ROAD WAS CLOSED!! The other way up, same thing...a closed road. We drove back down--the kids spotted a McDonald's sign. We stopped there for lunch and decided to drive home. We could have gone another way, but it would have been another 1 1/2hrs in the car & we weren't sure if it would be raining when we got there--we didn't want to take a chance.

I was able to take a few pictures on the trip............
We went through many tunnels-this one had ice/icicles:

looking down on a chuch in the fog.............

Kiwi on a stick (Kiwi sullo stecco) @ McDonald's. Kieran got that with her happy meal....Mark got a brownie for dessert (instead of an apple pie). The McDonald's here have many other things on their menu.

Enjoy :)

Ciao!