Well today is Day 4 on the slopes and I have never been skiing this much in a row! I made it until almost 1pm today and we all usually meet up at 1:30 here for a free lunch buffet. Julia has not wanted to go out in the afternoons, we will see what today brings She is only 7 and skiing HARD with all of the adults/older kids for 4.5 hours each day - so I am 'letting her' :) stop at 1:30 if she wants. Yesterday she then hit the pool for 3 hours -- needless to say she almost feel asleep in her dinner. As most of you can imagine, Evan would rather take NO breaks or lunch and ski from 9am until mountain closes at 4:30! It is snowing today - much needed snow! The visibility isn't great, but it is beautiful and the slopes needed it big time. It is supposed to snow hard today and tonight - so I am excited to see what it feels like to ski in that kind of snow tomorrow.
I have been mostly skiing with my Swedish friend Ulrika as her and I are pretty slow. This works out very well and is fun. The only thing I don't like is that I don't get to see the kids ski. Eric said he would try to take some camera video for me so I can see them. Ulrika and I take more cafe latte breaks!
So the Sauna... saunas are huge in Austria and clothes are "not allowed" and no one seems to mind. In fact all the changing rooms at public pools and such are co-ed. Yesterday a lady was at the indoor hotel pool topless and then got up to swim with her kids and first wiggled into her bikini top. It is still SO strange to me. I have decided I can't begin to understand this nudity thing because it is just something that they grow up with and it just isn't an issue at all. There are like 6 sauna rooms here and this room that i Love that has 3 waterbeds with headphones that have soft music playing. So relaxing. I have done the sauna a few times but just go in with a towel around me. I also try to enter only saunas that have no one in them. It is fine to be in a sauna and have people come in but I HATE walking into one with already naked people in it.
We are here with 3 other families... another American family that is from DC but has lived in Vienna 3.5 years, a Swedish family and an Italian/Scottish family. It makes for fun dinner converstaion about how different countries handle health care, education, nudity :), language learning in school, business etc.. Combined the people at the table have seen SOOOOO much of the world - it is so facinating and such a nice learning experience for me. Of course, I am usually the doof of the crowd :)!
We leave on Saturday so 2 more days of skiing after this.
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