on our way to Spain

sorry that there are again no photos, i really wish i could put some up, it is so darn beautiful! we took a cable car to the top of the mountains yesterday to see the Alps in all their glory, amazing! we also went to the top of the big ski jump thingy that they use in the Olympics, man those people who do that sport are insane! We have been staying in an adorable little b & b in oldtown Innsbruck for these past three nights, enjoying people drag hard objects over the cobblestone street:) Well, we have got to get going to catch our train to Milan and then we leave tomorrow super early for A Coruna, Spain. Matts old boss moved there 3 years ago and we are going to visit him. I think he lives in a super little town and i know he doesnt have internet, so you just may have to wait for us to get to Rome to hear any more. I am also sitting next to a very stinky man and must get out in order to breath through my nose again. ciao, matt and shellie. ps. thanks for the comments! ps. mom, you have to answer the phone in order to get a call from me!

from Austria

real quick, we are in Innsbruck, Austria right now. The weather is incredible and the scenery is absolutely amazing. we will be here for tomorrow and then leaving wed. i will try to get some pictures of this place on tomorrow. the train ride here was the most incredible ride i have ever had, the alps are stupendous! we wish we could be backpacking right now! ciao

the future of the cat

We had a comment about throwing the cat over the balcony and I just wanted to make sure that you all know that we were very tempted, we shall see how tomorrow goes.....

Cold in Bled,Slovenia

Kay, so we didn´t actually take this picture, cause it doesn´t actually look like this right now. What it actually looks like is this, which is not bad at all, but different. We are in Bled, Slovenia right now.Yesterday was a bit of a recovery day, we enjoyed the fact that we are on vacation and do not have to be doing something at all moments. After our rest we made it down to the lake and walked around in the rain (which never did stop all day). We wandered around a bit and Shellie got cranky in the rain, so we decided to go to some mineral hot springs at a ritzy hotel in town. This was soooo much fun! They had multiple pools, one with seats and bubbles! There was also a super fun slide that connected the pools. Here is a picture of Matt going down the slide.

We must have gone down that slide 20 times while we were there, it was great! We went to a Pizzeria for dinner and the menu was a huge variety of pizzas and of course, omelettes-um, weird! So Matt got a pizza and I got a ham and cheese omelette, which was good, cause I was craving eggs, you just never know where you will get them I guess. Today we were awoken to a cat screaming outside on our balcony, it was absolutely marvelous! Here is a picture of him...After that delightful awakening, we walked into town and took a bus to Bohinj, which is apparently a bit higher in elevation and super duper cold! Cherie, I forgot to grab leggings, HUGE mistake! I will be finding some very soon. The mountains are marvelous here that is for sure. The lake was gorgeous, but we enjoyed it, had some lunch and then went back to Bled. It is so cold that we decided just to walk back to our hotel to get re-energized and warm.
This is me looking like a total goon with a baby belly. No Janelle, no one has tried to rub my belly yet, thank goodness! It has been pretty well concealed by my many layers, so the temptation has not been there:) The town in the background is Bled, we are on our way back to the hotel via this scenic road. We are just going to hang out for a bit till dinner now. We leave tomorrow for Innsbruck, going deeper into the Alps. We are in the Julienne Alps right now by the way. Ciao

Boating Venice

We just left Venice and I believe it will always hold a special place in our hearts. It is touristy yes, especially when one goes on a holiday for all Europeans, Easter Monday, but it is still Venice! We got in later than expected Sunday evening because of snow in Zurich where we had a bit of a layover. Our challenge was to get from the airport to the train station by bus and then pick up the water bus to take us to our stop, and then find our hotel amidst the winding streets and canals of Venice. Needless to say, we found it, but what an adventure! We woke up bright and early in the morning and went on a walk through St. Marks Piazza without any other tourists, it was wonderful! We will show you a pic of it. Then we went back to sleep:) We hit the streets again after our rest and picked up some tickets for the water bus and museums-we still get a bit of a break cause we are kids:) We went through a museum and then wandered a bit more till we got too tired and rested again-well call it jet-lag. Dinner was great, but challenging to figure out Italian, mainly because Matt forgot the language book, thankfully however we received the only english-speaking server! After a mad rush to find some good gelato and/or something else sweet-sadly we failed-it was too late-lame! The next day we found a grocery store that was INCREDIBLY small! You cannot imagine how much they tried to stuff in that store, along with carts and many people, it was a claustrophobic nightmare! We took a water bus to an island named Murano that afternoon with a million other people, which eventually gave me a bit of a panic attack, but thankfully not until we hit some land and I could get off. Im not sure if it is being pregnant but I seem to be prone to waves of nausea when squished tightly against other people lately, imagine that! Other than that, the bebe is doing fantastic! Anyways, Murano was delightful. We got panini sandwiches and gelato and shopped, it was great. They make beautiful glass on Murano, which we got to see them making, that was really neat-a safety hazard I believe as they let us walk right up to the workers with their hot pieces of glass. Yesterday was busy as we visited the Doges Palace (the palace of the "Kings" of Venice back in the day when Venice was an international business hotspot), St. Marks Bascilica, went shopping, hit the bus and came to Bled, Slovenia. We awoke to a gorgeous breakfast, which made us very happy. It is currently raining, so hopefully we will still be able to get out and about today. Sorry, there are no apostrophes on this keyboard, but there are some fun extras like č,ć, š, đ and ž! Well give you another post whenever possible, thanks for reading!