The real tour-Slovenia to Spain

So, we start this tour off back in Slovenia where it was really cold. Well, our last day there was gorgeous! Her is a picture of Matt on his awesome bike! We rode ourselves around the lake that morning before catching our train. Is it just me or does he remind you of the Wicked Witch in the Wizard of Oz? A very manly version of such though of course:)


Here we have a mere glimpse of our amazing trip through the Alps to Innsbruck. I tell you, the entire trip was at least this beautiful!


This is a wonderful self portrait of us up on top of the local ski area at Innsbruck. we took the Cable car and then two gondolas to get ourselves to the top and it was completely worth it!


Me, getting more and more pregnant in front of the cable car doo-hicky and the mountains. When we were in Spain, the family I was with swore that I had gotten bigger just in 4 days! take note of this, you will notice that I have had a big of a growth spurt in my belly region once I get back. Let's just say nice things like, "oh, the baby is growing!" not "YOU ARE GETTING HUGE/SOOO BIG/GINORMOUS!!!" I seem to be a bit sensitive as to my growth. Side note: I am now in my 3rd trimester! The baby is just over 2 lbs and about 9.5 inches from head to butt. He is a mover and a shaker for sure and I absolutely love having him! BTW, he is kicking right this very moment!


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This is a picture of the ski jump in Innsbruck. We went up to the top cause we got a free ticket. Those guys that do that are insane! FYI, they had the Olympics in Innsbruck twice, in the 60's, then the 70's. They also do ski jumping in the summer, random,eh?


We made dinner for ourselves this night and ate on the little balcony of the apartment we were staying in. It was absolutely lovely!


We had a bit of a layover in Milan, so we quickly ran in to see this cathedral. It was pretty impressive! We also almost got nabbed by a pickpocket. This guy came up to me with popcorn seeds, trying to give them to me, which I was refusing as MANY pigeons started swarming both Matt and I. He then attempted giving them to Matt (actually shoving them in his hand), then it was revealed what he was trying to do, I saved the day as I grabbed our camera from his hand and took Matt away. The man immediately disappeared. I wasn't too into sightseeing after that, so we grabbed a Kebab and ate in our shoebox sized room.


Spain
This is a picture of the beach in La Coruna, where we landed and our hosts picked us up. Ill tell you more about them in a sec.


Our first day we took a walk around the little village where we were staying and ended up here at this cute little church.


Just on the other side of this river is where we stayed. You could see the river from our room in the morning, it was gorgeous. It had rained the entire week previously, and yet we came back from this walk sweating and I had to pull my pant legs up!


We took a walk up the river and went over this decent sized suspension bridge. Isabel, our mom for the week used to sit on this bridge when she was a kid and her brothers would jump on it, trying to scare her. The house they live in is a generational house that they have had in the family for a really long time. The house is made of granite stone. They have gutted it and it is nice inside now, and super cool!


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We went to a beach where Isabel used to spend her summers and she went out collecting snails to eat for dinner (she was nice and didn't make us eat them:). She brough us back this little hermit crab, I thought it was cute!


Portugal
This is the whole family. Stan (matt's old boss), Isabel, and Stephan, their son. We played on this wondeful beach and had lunch on our day trip to Portugal.


Portugal Fortress-this was a cool fortress right on the border, lots of stuff to buy, but no room in our bags for it!



We went to this amazing market in Padron sunday morning. It was the biggest market I have ever seen! Imagine Farmers Market times 20! They had everything there, but the produce was incredible! This woman was making churros right there in the market, in that big pot of oil behind her. The next pic is Matt and Stan eating them, they were delicious!




They sold these pots here as well. I don't know what to call them, but I think they fement whiskey/other liquors in them. Or they distill them, I can't remember.

Santiago Cathedral in Spain


Kay, that is the end of your tour for now. Rome will have to come later. We are enjoying ourselves. We saw the Vatican and St. Peters this morning. We leave thursday to go back to Venice, and Friday we go home. We are a bit homesick, but enjoying having eachother as we scour this city. Loves!