Luge at Lake Bled, Slovenia

 Bled had an extremely fun summer monorail luge. To go faster you'd push forward and to slow you'd pull backwards on the bar. the course was filled with drops, turns and a tunnel at the end. In the pictures you can see our Dad taking the vertical drop into the tunnel after a no braking run and Hunter starting up. The very last picture is the big turn at the end.

Fun Summer!

Nathaniel

Julian Alps tour

Julian Alps tour

1st picture is Mark helping me down from climbing to see the second largest waterfall in Slovenia- apprently flip flops are not the necessary climbing shoe!

3rd picture is the second larges waterfall

2nd picture is the Worlds longest skip jump and the World record is 329 Meters

Beautiful drive through the Alps

Hungary/Bulgaria

Getting out of Hungary seemed scary when we were the only ones waiting for a train and the train station was closed and it was literally in the middle of no where, but the train luckily came.

The next pictures shows how big the boys are getting-They are now almost as big as a squirrel! This was taken in Ljublanja, Slovenia, which is a truly beautiful city.

The last picture is at Lake Bled also in Slovenia and for you crew watchers, they are having the World Championship Crew races there this weekend. The lake is spectacular!

Joanne

Visit to Poland

Our visit to Poland

Top picture of Krakow

Middle picture the horrific past, Aushwitz

Bottom picture the church bell which could be heard 18 km away

Budapest - Water Everywhere

Szechenyi Bath

Auqa World

Budapest reminded us of the pool culture in Iceland. We had a great time at both the Szechenyi Bath in City Park and at the Aquaworld on the city outskirts. The Szechenyi Bath was packed and had so many pools, water features, therma tubs and saunas. This is definitely a must visit! The boys have longings for Raging Waters, so we headed to Auquaworld with its water slides, wave pool, and wake board pool. Nathaniel did a SPOT check-in. While not as large as Raging Waters, the elavator, lack of lines and digital readouts of your speed on the slides were all winners. Joanne went down the Lazy River a little fast and cut here elbow, requiring a quick medical stop.

We leave Budapest - from the Pest side - today for the resort town of Havre in southwest Hungary.

Segway-Prague

Prague by Segway

The views

the fun on Segways

the food

Berlin

Berlin was a very special place.

Top picture is of the boys at Checkpoint Charlie. a much different place today than in 1989.

Middle picture is a fabulous place we found to have dinner-this was their spectacular large pizza and it was a mere 15 Euro before topping (5 Euro per 1/4 pizza extra for topping)

Bottom picture is commerative crosses for the many people who died trying to climb The Wall from East Berlin to West.

The history was very moving in Berlin and we enjoyed the musems as well as the food.

Joanne