It has been way too long since I’ve posted. I keep waiting to upload pictures, and then get busy etc… sorry for the excuses. I promise that in the next few weeks I will do an entire posting of pictures.
After the last time that I posted, we had a 3 day weekend. We went to Salzberg Austria with our friends Jason and Jodi. It is a very cool drive because you go up and down the mountains and see all of the Austrian houses hanging onto the side of the hills. It’s usually a 4 hour drive, but with everyone on holiday and many of the tunnels thru the mountains were under construction, so it took about 6 hours to get there and 7.5 to get back. There were times when traffic would literally stop and people would get out and walk around or let their dog pee, etc…
We got to Salzberg on Friday early afternoon, and walked the whole town. It was really nice to get out of Italy and experience some of the other people of Europe. The Austrians (really just Germans in disguise) are so different from the Italians-night and day. We took Sophie b/c we heard they were really dog friendly. And they were. Even more than here. People had dogs in restaurants. There is a fortified castle/village on the top of a hill (I am blanking on the name) that most people get to by taking a funicular, but we hiked up the side. It was tons of fun. We finished the evening by eating sushi b/c we haven’t had it since getting here. Also, the people at the restaurants were super dressy, so we wouldn’t have fit.
We did some more touring the next day, and then took the long drive home. They have some pretty famous Sound of Music tours, but we didn’t do it since it was 4 hours. I think Sarah is going to do it with her parents when they come in a week.
Speaking of Sophie, she has been really great here. We love taking her with us where ever we go. On Sunday we went for a 2 hour hike up the mountain in our back yard, and she lead the whole way. She will also be coming with us in Oct when we come to Chicago.
Labor Day weekend Sarah had us take it easy since her parents are on the way. We did take a trip to a Prosecco field about an hour away. Prosecco is the Italian champaign. We had some really fabulous Prosecco (which actually means it’s horrible b/c it’s sooo dry). It was really cool because the people from my office that we went with have spent lots of money at this place and so we got great treatment. The owner has a private picnic table in a gazebo at the top of a hill surrounded by his grapes. So we took a picnic and sampled all of the Proseccos. It was a very uniquely Italian thing.
I hope this give an idea of what we’ve been up to. I have actually been busy at work doing stuff that is keeping my attention. I love that I do 18 different types of law every day. It’s the perfect job for a lawyer with ADD.
Again, I will try to post pictures ASAP.
