...it was a white christmas...

So Wollie and me decided to spend our first Christmas alone together somewhere totally new. So we booked this little hotel, Hotel Erlhof, in a place called Zell-am-See (Kaprun) in Austria for 3 nights and it was magnificent. We were in the mountains, snow all around us and Wollie's first white Christmas.
We left Munich on Friday after work and couldn't see anything cause it was dark and misty.

So when we woke up the 24th and saw this view for the first time, we were speechless....Just look at it... This is the Kitzsteinhorn mountain....

We spent the day walking around, buying stuff and eating our way through town. Then On Christmas eve, we watched the choir sing Christmas carols in the city center and Santa came on a carriage to hand out gifts to all the kids (will still upload these pics). Later we went back to the hotel, opened a bottle of wine and spend Xmas eve unpacking gifts in our hotel room...too much fun!

On Christmas day we decided to go up the mountain and spend our Christmas in -12 at 3029m. They have a cinema up there, an amazing restaurant and a 360m mine shaft that goes through the Kitzsteinhorn peak with a panorama platform of the Hohe Tauern National Park at the end. 

This is our way there and up. First our car doors were frozen. We switched cable cars 3 times to eventually reach 3029m. And at the top it was -12 degrees. Note all the photos documenting all the stops and coldness.

 

And this is especially for Maryke...we thought of you...

We cannot wait for our ski course in January. We are definitely going back there and making use of all the ski lifts and night sledding!!!!!!

...and once again...snow...

On Sunday we went sledding. My oh my...I think I might get addicted to this sport. It is so much fun. We went to this place called Leutasch in Austria and it was beautiful, snow capped mountains all around and we had to drive up this little road covered in snow. It was just breathtakingly beautiful.

...snow snow and more snow...

Like I said...here are some action shots. Wollie managed to go down the hill twice with out landing face first in the snow and I was a little scared. Going on a skii course in Jan and then I will start on the 'idioten hügel' and join the other pros. I mean just look at our fabulous friends doing it in style. Thanks guys for an amazing day...cannot wait for the next one. :)

...we finally played in the snow...

Wollie's cousin and girlfriend are visiting at the moment and friends of Sven are here from Bonn. So we decided to get into our cars (or theirs rather) and make the most of the weekend. We had a plan to go sledding in the mountains...but  the plan didn't turn out like planned. We ended up at an awesome ski resort called 'der wilde kaiser' in Austria and the plan just went from good to amazing. The ski experts went skiing and the 4 of us went along for the joyride...man oh man did we have a lot of fun.

All of us getting ready for the adventure

The couples going up a ski lift for the first time

amazing view, snow and ski

There was a fog blanket over the town but when we finally got to the top we had the most amazing view ever.

the view from inside the cable car

view from the one side of the restaurant

view from the other side...the ski slope

More action pics to follow. it was too amazing to put it all into one post...so I have to do the action shots in the next pot. x

...monthly round up...

ok, so the working hours are seriously messing up my blogging time and I need to change my priorities to get back into things. Anyway,...here is a round up of all the stuff we got up to in the last while....it included a lot of shopping, eating, sleeping, working, xmas markets, gluehwein, lights, friends and more ...

1. Advent

First Feuerzangenbowle

Xmas markets, lights and food

lights lights and more lights