middle name 'adventure': Austria ya!

The smell of fresh mountain air and pines. It’s just what we all needed. A week of sun and fun at the snow for the Christmas break. I did all the organising this time around and we headed off to Seefeld Austria via Munich. Munich greeted us on a very chilly Friday night and Sal and I decided to head for the Hoffbrau house beer hall to wait for the others who were arriving on later flights, pork knuckle and a stein were on order.
We woke up the next morning to a few cm’s of fresh snow blanketing the hole of Munich and headed back into the square where the Christmas markets were. After a little sightseeing and shopping we loaded up the car and off we went across the border to one of the most beautiful countries in the world, Austria! We had such a lovely week. There was no emphasis for ski, ski, ski. It was wake up when you feel, do what you want and relax for the week. Sally loved it! I was still mostly ski, ski, skied! We had a 5 course Christmas dinner that was amazingly tasty.
One day we took to the xcountry tracks, which Sal loved – not. (Seefeld has held the xcountry skiing for the winter Olympics twice) I think the rest of us had fun; the girls seemed to have problems with stopping.
The town was beautiful and all full of locals, which was a good change from the over run Aussie and English resorts. We even made it to St Anton for a day of skiing.
And on Friday night I had a big surprise for Sal. Jenny had just arrived into the area and was staying over new years at another place 40mins away. I snuck out, organised to meet her in Innsbruck and she surprised Sal for dinner and stayed over, So much fun!
It was such a great week. 3 weeks till St Anton for me!

Right before we headed off there was a big accident out the front of our house, the rescue helicopter landed on the field next door! We just made the plane....