I Love Skiing(Couldn't think of a title)

The next day we decided to go down our mountain to a different skiing hill...in Bad Kleinkirchhiem. Chelsea didn't come because she wasn't feeling very well. We got there rented our skis, got our passes and we were off. We took a gondola up about half-way up the hill and then got on a chairlift. We got off the chairlift and started skiing. The first run I was terrified. The runs were quite steep and it was intimidating but after that run I was fine. We did a few runs of those and the took the chairlift to the top. It was an amazing view up there. We took some pictures and then went down the run.
We got to the middle where the chairlift is and decided to more of those runs. By the end of the day the snow was really crappy and so I fell but not bad and I got up and kept going and then fell again. After that fall I was going slow taking my time and then it wasn't a very steep part so I went a little faster and then I face planted. It didn't hurt but it made me angry I got up and went to the chairlift(different chairlift actually at the bottom of the hill) I didn't want to do another run but my dad made me so we went up again. We took a long break at the top and I tried to dry my soaking wet clothes in the sun.after about a half hour we went down again(different route...to go back to our car. The snow at the start was fine but after that there were moguls all over the hill. It was almost impossible to ski through them, but we did. Then we got on the gondola to take us down to our car. We got our car got some groceries and went back up to the lodge. That night me, my dad and Kathy(Pronounced cat-y) Went in the sauna. After our 15 minutes we got out and rolled in the snow. after that I just watched some of the many movies and T.V Shows I have on my computer. We mostly just packed the next day. Then we got up the next morning and we were on our way To Rastatt, Germany. We got some breakfast at the bakery as usual and we kept going.I watched the first episode of How I Met Your Mother and a bunch of other TV shows before we arrived in Dachau. We first went to there city and walked around a bit. We found a dollar store(or a euro store) and was able to find Rolos. So we got some of those and little things like headphones for Chelsea and batteries for my mom and we left. We then went to there concentration camp. This concentration camp was the first one that held prisoners. We went in and saw the famous sign above the door "Arbeit Machts Frie" In English it is "Work Makes You Free" We kept going and went into the museum which was built by prisoners in the thirties. Inside they talked about all the torturing and first hand accounts from people who were imprisoned. After about an hour we went back to the car. We stopped at McDonalds on the way and got some food and left. We got to the hotel quite a while later because the traffic was horrible. We hardly broke 30 on the autobahn. In that time though I was able to watch Rain Man. It is a great movie. We got all settled in our huge amazing room( It has a walk in closet for all our suitcases, a bathroom a separate shower and bath, a king size bed, 2 singles, a desk with a TV, a pullout couch, 2 arm chairs, a kind of coffee table and a fridge. They also gave us a bunch of internet cords so that we can use the internet here. After that we went out to find some place to eat. We almost settled on Burger King when a Chinese place caught our eyes. It was a buffet too. So we did the buffet thing. It was awesome. We came home and I took a bath and watched some TV on my computer then went to bed. Now I am awake and typing this and anxious to see my Grammie. She should be here in about 4 and a half hours...Yay. Thank you for reading, Have a good one.

Chilling and Relaxing

I have decided to split up these posts because they will be very long. We got in and I was happy to find out that the Other Family was giving me and Chelsea the good room(It has a king bed and then a little ladder up to like another room with a double bed). The lodge also has these really comfy chairs. The Family we are with has 2 kids as well. One 2 year old girl and One 4 year old boy. The boy is know skiing and very well and the girl is a little cutie who calls me big boy. After getting settled I opened my computer and start downloading. I checked back 10 minutes later to find out a lot of my things had downloaded. The Internet connection was great. So I download as much as I could. The next day we chillaxed. We sat around and did nothing. The next day though we went skiing. We rented our skis and got onto the hill. It had been a year since I had skied so I was doing a lot of Pizza cutting. We stayed till about 2:00 pm then walked back home. I decided to go in the sauna that night. It was great. I stayed in for 15 minutes at 85 degrees Celsius then I ran outside and rolled in the snow. It was actually refreshing. The next day we got up and went to Salzburg. The birth place of Mozart and where The Sound of Music was filmed. We walked to the old part of town and found a market and my family found a hot dog place(well really a sausage place) and they got hot dogs but I decided to wait and find something else. The funny thing is though the market went around a Church where they filmed a piece of The Sound of Music. We kept walking and found a grave yard. We looked around and found some catacombs when we were leaving my mom asked some random person if they knew where the Mozart family tomb was. It turned out it was right at the entrance to the catacombs. We kept going and went by a very creepy mime type person. He was very creepy though and because of that my dad gave him money...as usually. On they back to the car we went and saw the house where mozart grew up. Then on the way we decided to walk through a park. There was a fountain there too and we sat there for a while and then walked up these stairs and got to the car and left. Turns out that is where the kids run down the stairs and around the fountain singing Do,ra,mi. We stopped at the gocery store to pick up a couple of things. Mostly the bake your own baguettes because thats what we've been eating every morning. We didn't anything for a couple of days but then we went skiing again. This time though Chelsea didn't come because she was sick(of skiing) We got our skis again this time they were different though and we were on our way. The first run down was mostly pizza cut but then it was all straight skis for me. It was really fun when I could actually ski with my skis straight(I like to set the bar low). Again I went home at around 2:00pm. The funny thing was the guy there had given us good skis. So I was a better skier with the better skis...ironic. The next day we went to Graz. The 2nd biggest city in Austria. We got there and parked then looked for a place to eat. We turned a corner and guess what we saw...a Subway. I was so happy. I got the Chicken sandwich thingy. It was good. We then walked down to this shopping place and found Gelato. I decided to get some this time. I got 2 scoops. 1 cookies and cream the other Raspberry. Then we kept walking and found a tunnel that went down through a little mountain. It turned out it was a bomb shelter that could hold 50,000 people. It was big because it had little branches that went out for more people to fit. Half way down we found a little side branch with elevators. We went up to the top of where the elevators went too and then just kept walking till we got to the top of the hill. It was a very beautiful view and we saw these odd shaped thinks in the river it was like a building the middle of the river. We went down and checked it out. It was actually a pretty non-fancy restaurant and it had this play thingy that was all ropes but a maze with a slide at the end. Me and Chelsea did it in about 2 minutes...It was very fun though. We then walked back to our car and left. We did stop at McDonald's though to pick up some more Chinese sauce. Then When we got back to around where we are staying we got some groceries and went out for supper. The next(Which is today) We sat around some more. But I used my time wisely and learned some German. I can know speak to people in German about important things like where bathrooms are and How much something is.

Driving to Paradise...1 country at a time

Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I have been having to much fun. So we left France Friday morning(The 12th of March) very early(around 5:00) We drove for about an hour and a half and stopped at a bakery to get some breaky. We had our baguettes and croissants and were on our way. It was nice having my laptop because I had Downloaded movies and could watch them without needing the Internet. So Through out the trip I watched the Hurt Locker(Great Movie) and the first season of Even Stevens(a show I watched when I was younger. If your wondering it is still funny)We went up and down many mountains through out the day and at around 10:00 am we stopped again. This time in Albertville(The host of the 1992 Winter Olympics) We walked around downtown but there was much so we left. We did drive through the Olympic Village. That was really cool. We kept driving until we got to a place Called Chamonix. It was a a really ski city nestled between 2 big mountains. This is where we had lunch. My dad got a sandwich, my mom got a sandwich, my sister had some ravioli from a fast food ravioli place and I had a chicken wrap from McDonald's...also we had to pick up some more Chinese sauce. Then we kept going crossing into Switzerland. We drove for a while and ended up in the German speaking side of Switzerland. From there on it has been all German. We kept going and I was able to get some beautiful pictures of the mountains. It was very cool. We kept going and drove for quiet awhile till we got to where we were going to stay for the night:Interlanken. It was a very beautiful town. As usuall we walked around got supper. We kept walking and went by a Hooters(I was bummed that we couldn't go) We then walked around in the park in front of the Casino then walked back to the hotel. We got up early again and kept going. We didn't do much stopping this time. We went through Liechtenstein and then into Austria. Once in Austria we stopped at a grocery store for breakfast. I was lucky to find some Cinnamon Toast crunch(My favorite cereal) but when I tried it it turns out they meant the other cinnamon. I swear the Boxes looked the same as in Canada but they were not the same. Yucky yuk. We did find a baguette so I did get breakfast. We also were bummed to find out they had no Orangina. So we got Fanta (an Orange pop kind of drink) It isn't as good as Orangina but it is still all right. We kept driving and ended up in Germany(4 countries in 1 day...we can hardly do 4 provinces in one day in Canada) While in Germany we stopped in Innsbruck for lunch. They had a burger king so we decided to just a quicky lunch. I had there chicken burger which is bread with corn flakes. It was still good. After laughing at all the ausfahrt's and einfahrt's we came across the best one at a gas station. The gas pump handle said Gute Fahrt or Good Fart. I laughed hard at that one. We crossed back in to Austria after that and were able to get up the big mountain to our lodge/ski hill before sun down. The Bad news was that it hadn't completely melted up where we had to get down to our lodge but my mom tried anyways to get the car down. It didn't work so well and she ended up not being able to pull into the drive way and kept sliding down the hill. She tried 3 times to get the car up unsuccessfully before she put the emergency break on 3/4 up the hill and decided to unload there. We got the first 2 suit case out and I was bringing them up the hill when the car started to slide. My dad was kind of behind it and he tried to stop in form going(I guess it is human instinct)it just slid down the hill and into a snow bank. Everyone was fine. But we still had to lug the suit cases up the hill.p

Walking in a Winter Wonderland

So a couple days ago me and my mom decided to go shopping. We needed a few things for supper and a deck of cards(it was family card night we ruined our other deck of cards). So we bought our stuff and decided it would be fun to go for a walk. So we drove over to st. Cecil de Vignes, parked the car and started walking around. We went into there little town and looked around. There wasn't much there to see and my mom had to pee, so we left. The next day we planned to go back to Grignan for the circus and then over to Brantes were there is a beautiful view of the mountain. But we woke up and blizzarding not snowing it was a blizzard. So we didn't do anything. Later that night though me and my mom went out and made a snowman and then for a walk and took pictures. Today was suppose to be another nothing because of the snow but in the afternoon we realized they had actually plowed the big roads so we decided to go out to get some food (just a couple things again). Before we left though we tallied up our Oscar picks to see who won. And for the second time in a row I was victorious winning 8 euros(actually 6 because we all put in 2). We then left for food. We got to the little town that we do our shopping(Toulette) and realized it was all closed because everything closes between 12:00 and 3:00 for lunch. So we drove the extra 20 minutes to Orange to walk around(It was on our go to list anyways). On the way there we saw an upside down car on the side of the road. Looked like had had been sitting there awhile. We think that the tow trucks there are just really slow. We got to Orange and walked around because they were closed too. We got back in our car and went to find an open grocery store.Everything was open now so the grocery store in Orange was open too. There we got a roasted chicken for supper and I found a drink called Gini. Since I am on a hunt for cool soft drink(That arn't in Canada) I decided to buy it. It was god awful. It was so bad, it was bitter and just disgusting. If you ever come across it, don't buy it. Then we it was off to Vaison-la-Romain because we were running short of Skippy peanut butter and they were the only place that has it. After that we headed home. We ate are roasted chicken (I dipped mine in my Chinese sauce) and now I am sitting here typing this(and being bored...just a little) Thank You for Readings

llama, llama

So yesterday we didn’t do anything, it was a nothing day. Today though was really fun. I woke up and watched a bit of the show I just downloaded (The Big Bang Theory) Than at 1:00 p.m. we decided to go to Grignan. It is a little city inside a big wall. When we came into their little outside village thingy, you could see there was a circus setting up. So we drove a little further and there was this huge horse and a llama just standing on the grass eating. If you don’t know yet, Chelsea has a big obsession with llamas. Actually all her friends just love llamas, so Chelsea was very eager to get a picture with it to send to her friends. So we got out and got some pictures but never really got to close to the llama. We drove up to the wall and parked. We got out and walked inside the wall. It was a very windy day which made it hard to walk (you couldn’t imagine how windy it was). So we went up to their castle and found a vending machine and got a pop (Much less expensive then Monaco) and kept going. My mom and sister went to the bathroom there and me and my dad decided to walk around the castle and back up to the bathroom. When we got back my mom and sister were gone. So me and my dad split up and walked around the castle and found them. We walked back to the car and stopped again with the llama as I wanted to try and pat it. I was getting closer and closer and all of a sudden it charged and tackled me to the ground and spit in my face... Just Kidding. I had you going though...hahaha. I went up and he gave me a death stare so I ran away. I went back though with Chelsea this time and we slowly got closer and closer and then Chelsea touched him and ran. Then it was my turn I went up and touched and he swung its long neck around and I pealed. It was so fun.
Then we went grocery shopping. We shopped around a bit got our stuff (I also got a new pop called Organina Rasta...for Rastafarian. Its a tropical fizzy drink) and checked out. I am actually use to the food here now. I know what things are and I know what taste good and stuff. When we were leaving I decided to run over to McDonalds and get some Sweet and Sour sauce (Called Chinese sauce here...their a tincy bit racist...kidding) I got 10 of them for when my dad makes chicken. I put it in a fajita with McCain fries and top it off with the Chinese Sauce. It is delicious. Now I am sitting here typing this and about to eat supper. After that we are having Survivor night, which will be every Friday because I can only download them the day after they are on TV. I am having tons of fun here. Thanks for reading. Bye bye.

Gotta love Monaco...and Ferraris

So a couple days ago we decided we would go see the gorges. So we first went to a place called Carpentras and it turns out it was their market day so we walked around a bit not doing much. It was a beautiful day and I was wearing a t-shirt and I was so hot. Then we decided to leave the market but before getting to our car we stopped at a little sandwich place for lunch. This place was a high school hangout so there was a lot of PDA (public displays of affection). I was happy to find a different kind of pop here (I like to try a lot of different pops) It was called Coke Cherry. So I had that and it was pretty much just regular coke with a cherry after taste but still good.

We then walked back to our car. We got in the car and started driving. We got closer and closer to the mountain until we were driving right on the side of it. We were very high up and it was a small little road that was suppose to be for 2 cars. The worst part about it though was it had hardly any guard rails. Driving I was completely freaked every time the car turn I was uneasy. We stopped at a couple places along the road and I was fine then. Being out of the car I felt much better about the heights. The first place we stopped we just kind of looked over the edge down below but the second place we stopped was much cooler. There was an old broken house on the other side of the road and we went up and looked around a bit and then found a little cave probably used to store stuff. We then walked down a path on the other side and we found a more modern house. This one actually had an outhouse. There was also a path that looked like it would wind down the mountain into the gorge (This part wasn’t very steep compared to later on). We continued and it got much steeper very fast. We went up and up until we were on top of the mountain. Once up there it was like you were still on the ground. It was just fields and little lakes with little villages and towns. We stopped in a little place called Sault. We just kind of looked around then kept going. We then found a tiny little village. It had a beautiful view of the peak of this huge mountain and it was all snow at the top. We grabbed a drink from there cool fountain and went home. We started planning our next big trip... Monaco.

Before the Monaco there was a big day for us. We went to a Crocodile farm on Sunday. It was really cool. It had over 350 Crocodiles. We walked around a bit and saw big crocodiles, little crocodiles, weird mouthed crocodiles and even and albino crocodile. We also saw some tortoises and some exotic birds. This wasn’t the highlight of the day though. When I got home I awaited eagerly the Gold Medal game Between Canada and USA. It was a very close but Canada was winning to whole game. When the U.S. scored at the end I thought Canada was going to lose because of the momentum but that goal by Crosby was awesome and the pass by Iginla was pretty amazing too. I was so happy they won. I was sad to not be able to be in Canada at time like that, when the county is in frenzy. Well I will continue with Europe. The Monaco day came around sooner than I expected and I wasn’t able to get the previous days blog post’s in so now I well just attach them.

We woke up at 6:00 am on the 2nd of March and got ready and were out the door at 7:00 am. We stopped in a place along the Riviera called Bandol. We got some croissants and baguette (as usual) and took a walk along the port. It was a beautiful day and I was bummed out that I didn’t where my shorts. We saw a bathroom and we decided to take a pre-emptive strike and all go to the bathroom. These bathrooms are self-cleaners, so after someone goes it sprays it down then lets the other person in. So first my mom went, then I waited, then I went in, Then Chelsea waited and waited then just decided to go in. The bathroom light thingy said it was going to spray and so we yelled at Chelsea and she got out just in time. It was pretty funny. We turned around and walked back to the car. We drove for a bit more then stopped in St. Tropez. We walk along the port and saw a lot of big expensive boats. We then went to a little shopping place (I have noticed that I use the adjective little a lot, but I am really describing something peaceful and beautiful). On the way back to the car we got some gelato. I don’t much care for gelato so I took a pass on this, but I will still tell you what my family got. Chelsea got all Raspberry (I tried some and I actually wished I had gotten some), my mom got a mix of lemon and cookies, and my dad got a mix of chocolate and raspberry. We got back in the car and kept driving. We stopped in a town a couple minutes later for lunch. We got some sandwiches and Fantas and started eating. I got some sand from this place (I am just going to say it’s from St. Tropez) and we kept going. Our next stop was Cannes. So we drove till we came across these beautiful Rocky Mountains. We stopped and took pictures and had a good time. Then it was back in the car. We were in traffic in Cannes and there was a parking spot just up ahead so I hopped out to grab some sand. It turned out it wasn’t a parking spot so they kept driving. I met up with them a couple minutes later down the beach and we had a good laugh about it (It wasn’t the first I have been left behind...Love you mommy) We played around a bit on the beach running away from the waves(unsuccessfully sometimes). Then it was back in the car with our wet and sandy feet. We were gonna stop in Nice (pronounced knee-se like niece and nephew) but decided not to because we were planning on doing it the next day. It was beautiful there. We were driving through right as the sun was going down so it was glistening of the water. It is actually really hard to explain how beautiful it was. So I won’t. We got to our hotel 5 or 10 minutes later. We had a huge room. There was a room for my parents, a room for my sister and a pull out couch for me. We didn’t stay long though. We put our stuff in the room and headed out to Monte Carlo. The whole point of this trip for me was to get awesome pictures of cars, so I had my camera out and was looking for some good shots. We found a good place to park in a pretty big parking garage. On the way down I saw an Aston Martin, the first of many nice cars seen. We decided to get supper first, so we walk down to the port and looked around. Going down the Street there was a Lotus dealership (very nice car), then a Ferrari race car thingy (they were having some sort of party or conference in the place) but in the window they had the engines. It was super cool. We then found a grocery store. We got a bit of candy and I was also able to find a cherry 7up. This was much better than the Cherry Coke. I have decided to put in the blog side bar cool drinks I have had in Europe. Continuing, we decided to walk up a side street in search of a good restaurant. Lucky for us we came across a Ferrari dealership. It had 7 Ferrari’s just sitting outside and 4 more inside. Not only that right next door there was a repair shop full of Ferrari’s (doesn’t say much about their reliability). We came across a nice restaurant and decided to eat there. We looked at the menu and I found it a bit suspicious that they didn’t have drink prices so I decided to get water just in case. The guy came back with bottled water. I just drank it anyways. We also decided what to eat. My dad had a grilled cheese sandwich (with ham), Chelsea had Cheese Pizza and so did my mom and I had a fries but this time with the chicken. It was delicious. We played a little guess the bill game and we were all wrong. The drinks cost 6 euros each(9$) except the water, It was 5 euros (7,5$). We paid 34,5$ for drinks. Luckily that didn’t faze us. We decided to go up to the famous Monte Carlo Casino and look for some nice cars. When we got up there was some loud rumbling. It was a beautiful Ferrari. It was pretty cool. We went around the circle in front of the casino and saw another nice Ferrari and I got a good picture with it and then we went back to the earlier mentioned one and I got picture with it as well. When I was walking back, the owner of the car asked if I wanted to get in. I said yes right away. Next thing I know he is starting it up and telling me to rev it. I have never heard a car so loud. He then tells me to scoot over so he can take me for a drive. He puts it in to gear and starts driving but Stalls it. You haven’t lived till you’ve seen a guy with a pretty big ego stall a Ferrari and the try regain his composure. I could tell he had been drinking, maybe because he smells like alcohol or maybe because he keeps say F*** about random things. He drove me around the circle then hit the gas hard at the end for emphasis. The G-forces were crazy. It was one of the most amazing experiences of my life. It was so cool. We decided to walk around a bit in the park in front of the casino. In the park we talked about how my Grammie stole towels from the hotel of the casino. Her and her friend Grace went in with some excuse and came out with some towels. I think that is a pretty good souvenir. We took some nice family pictures in front of the casino and then some picture of the fountains and so on. On the way back to the car the same guy asked my dad if he wanted to go in the Ferrari. My dad said yes and on the way to the car the guy turned to my dad and said”I am so drunk” it was pretty funny. So my dad was in the car and the guy says rev it. So my dad pushes softly on it and the guy pushes down on his leg, it was so loud, but the best part is the cops came over and was telling the guy that he can’t be too loud. The cop was angry too. He was mad. So then my dad got out and we walked back to the car with some good stories and some nice pictures. On the way out of the parking garage we saw some cars under covers. So each one my dad would hop out and lift it up to see what kinda it was. They were all Ferraris and Aston Martins. I must have seen probably 20 Ferraris because of the dealership and parking garage and you know the one I was in. We drove back to the hotel and just crashed.

In the Morning it was all rainy and yucky out. Me and my dad went and got some frosted flakes and came back. Then me and my mom got some croissants and jus. We decided to take the fast way home and not stop in Nice because it was so yucky out. When we got home we watched episodes 2 and 3 of survivor (which were really funny and interesting) and now it is 2:00 am and I have to get to bed. Thanks for reading as always.