Hallo an alle!! FYI...this is 'hello everyone' in German :) Pretty tough one to figure out, but there you have it. Has it really been a month since the last post?! Whoopsie.
We are all good, and definitely trying to get into a routine over here. David's team is doing so well, and our #4 is kicking ass :)
It is definitely looking like fall now, the colors of the changing leaves are amazing! It was starting to cool down also, but was 72 and sunny today, yay! :) Sorry to rub it in peeps back home, I've heard it's getting a little chilly there ;)
We've had a few new adventures as well....more hiking, visiting the Innsbruck, Austria Alpenzoo, going to the llama farm, David going to Munich for Oktoberfest!!, Elliot starting a 'gym' class and Nora starting kindergarten at the German school!!!!
love and miss you all!!!
here's some pics, pics and more pics!
hiking with daddy!
taking a hiking break with mommy!
sweet nora bean
elliot checking out the fish at the alpenzoo
it was a cold, rainy day at the zoo but that didn't stop us!!
and nora got a new umbrella :)
getting up close and personal with some animals...
that's just a couple wires there...
not gonna lie, this was a little crazy.
but not as crazy as seeing this little guy.
mr. braunbar! Again, that's just me learning to speak such incredible German.
That's mr. brown bear!
he was right on the other side of the window and kept pacing back and forth sniffing at the corners. I think he was hungry, and I think Elliot looked like a decent little lunch.
out for a walk through the vineyards...
and 1 of the things that might make this entire experience worth it....the pizza!
view from our balcony one afternoon after a little rain....
this hasn't gotten old.
obviously sideways, but a pic of David's first Euro goal!! He's of course already had another, but THIS was the first :)
We happened to stop by a little town square celebration, and nora had to have her face painted.
She was a pink kitty for a few hours.
Another pic of the view from our kitchen one morning.
yep.
David borrowed himself some leiderhosen, and headed up to Munich with a few of his teammates for OKTOBERFEST!! I was a little jealous, but so excited for him! He said it was awesome, from what he can remember ;)
view of the frost in the mountains one morning...
and an amazing sunrise another morning.
we took the gondola up again to Ritten, but hiked up to the llama farm this time!
yep, the llama farm.
hiking to the farm....
AND our kindergarten girl!!!
ok....we FINALLY got all of our paperwork in order, which turned out to be a bit of a painfully slow process. But, we are all officially official! Which means, we could enroll N somewhere if we wanted. Nora was dying to meet some new friends and even though she knew they wouldn't be talking like her, she wanted to go! She's a couple days in now, and loves it! We're so proud of her for diving right in, and who knows, maybe she might even pick up some German ;)
oh, and the reason she's at a German school in Italy is because the area that we are in, South Tyrol is mainly German speaking. Italian and German are the official languages, but around town it is mostly German. There is an Italian school in town also, which is coincidentally where Elliot has her gym class once a week, but there are many more German schools and students, so German it is!
