Our birthday present to mum was a weekend together in the mountains. It was not easy to find a weekend that suited everybody, however we managed - and it turned out to be a great one. We chose Rauris as our destination. Rauris is situated on the edge of the Nationalpark Hohe Tauern. It is still in the district of Salzburg and therefore not far for us to drive.Richard, Hanna, Marc and me already left on Friday after lunch. The kids had their nap in the car on the way there. When we arrived we went for a walk through downtown Rauris, which didn't take us long :-) and then waited for the rest of the crew to arrive (mum, dad, edith and arthur).
On Saturday we went for a big hike - big, considering our circumstances and the fact that we have to carry 2 children around as well. We did something that we normally wouldn't do (unless in winter to got skiing) and used the cable car to go up the mountain and started a 4 1/2 hours hike over 2 peaks from the cable car station. It was absolutely wonderful and the scenery really stuning. Hanna and Marc had a great time (well, Marc slept almost the whole way) and we had a good excercise.
On Sunday we took it a bit easier. We had a big Sunday breakfast and left a bit later for a walk in the Rauriser Urwald. This is a forest area, which is not "looked after" and therefore very natural. For the orienteerers: it reminded us a lot or skandinavian woods with lots of little boulders and blueberry bushes, little marshes and ponds. We loved it! In the end we walked much further than we had planned. Unfortunately it started to drizzle on our way back, but we could make it back in time to a restaurant before it really started to rain! In our online photo album you can see a few photos of our weekend!It was a wonderful weekend - all 5 of us enjoyed it immensely! For me it was also the last holiday weekend, as schools started again on Monday. I had to swap my always-ready-to-go swimming bag with my school bag! Although I am sure it will be a hard year - with the 2 kids and a half time teaching job, I look forward to it. It is good to get out and think about other things than nappies, feeding and household stuff :-).
Have a great day!
Christine
5 comments:
The photo's look fantastic - what a nice weekend.
Good luck with the upcoming school term, but you miscounted the number of kids you have to look after - you forgot Richard!
Ha Ha Ha Ha - no really - very funny! You're a laugh a minute - honestly - you are - a laugh a minute - really, seriously, you're just so funny. I can't help but laugh. Geez you're so funny, man what a comic you are....
it's official - they are the cutest things ever! Glad to see pics of Marc! Michelle
Marc definitely has got the problem that, I guess, every 2nd or later born child in this world has - we don't take nearly as many pictures of him than we used to make of Hanna!
But I agree - a very cute baby boy :-)
Christine
It was a great weekend, indeed! :-) Super photos!!
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