Weekend Excitement

This past weekend our family joined Matt's company and went on a 4 day ski holiday. We had a ridiculous amount of fun.

We are so lucky to be stationed here with truly awesome people. We have enjoyed companies in the past, but this group is off the hook! These are the type of people that you hug "hello" and "goodbye" even if it will only be a few days before you see them again. (Just to clarify: Matt doesn't hug them every day at the beginning and end of work - but when we see each other outside of work it is a little bit of a love fest.) There are single guys, couples without kids, families with young kids, and some with older kids and we all get along great. I honestly enjoy just about everyone in the company and the idea of hanging out with them for a weekend of skiing sounded like a great plan.

I do have to admit I was very uncomfortable handing over a large sum of money to someone else to plan my weekend. Although I didn't have the type of information in advance that I wanted, and some aspects of the organization were not perfect - I doubt I could have done a better job organizing this large of a group for a ski weekend. Kudos to our "trip captain" - sorry I doubted you.

We all made our own way down to Sankt Veit, Austria and each family stayed in their own room or apartment in different pensions throughout the tiny town. Our family was lucky enough to get an apartment with two rooms, kitchenette, dining area, and balcony. We all had breakfast at our own pension, met up on the slopes for days of skiing or snowboarding and then had dinner together each night at a local restaurant. Following dinner the group convened up at The Rustica, a bar owned by the tour company, for an evening of silly fun. We had cow milking contests, karaoke, limbo, dancing, costume parties and an unbelievable amount of laughs.

On the slopes, we were treated to the best runs I have ever been on and some of the fluffiest powder and most beautiful views ever. I loved this place. As we were heading out of town on the last day I found myself preoccupied with trying to figure out a way to come back.

The best thing about this trip is that is was truly enjoyable for everyone in our family. The kids had fun at ski school, Matt and I had fun boarding and skiing with our friends, and we all had fun with friends at dinner and the after party. The boys had the best snow fight ever with a few of the young Captains in our company. Those boys had no idea what they were up against when they took on two 25 year old guys in snow war 2012! The big kids won, but I'm not sure who had more fun. They were all laughing so hard an unfriendly local threatened to call the Polizai.

We had such a great weekend on an off the slopes. The ski conditions were downright fabulous on their own, but the weekend was so spectacular because of the group of people we were with. Matt and I couldn't have had nearly as much fun if it were just the two of us. We were both so sad to leave because we know that this type of thing doesn't come along every day. We are so thankful for our Aces family here in Germany and look forward to sharing more great times in the few months we have left here.