It's mid May as I write this, our garden is in full bloom and I already had to cut the grass several times. So I guess winter season is officially over - even though some of my more dedicated friends are still going ski touring. My skiing this season was basically all in service of helping the kids learn to ski. And learn they did. During our traditional week in the Kinderhotel Kröller in the Zillertal in Austria both kids attended ski lessons. On the final race day Leonie placed second and Lukas third in their respective age groups. More importantly, both of them casually skied down a black slope with me, blabbering all the way down. From now on they should be unstoppable ;-P
My brothers Torsten and Richard visited for New Years. We had a lot of chill family time and good conversations. The only downer was that Anke couldn't make it this time because she caught Covid just before they intended to leave for Switzerland. Let's try that again soon!
Leonie and I in Brunni.
Lukas, Anita, Leonie in Brunni.
Lukas and I.
Lake Lucerne under a sea of clouds.
Calories!
Leonie is taking piano lessons and was excited to have a proper musician in the house.
Torsten's birthday.
Traditionally celebrated with a "Grüner" - disgusting stuff that somehow stuck in our family ;-P
A fiendishly difficult "The Three ???" puzzle we rented from the library. Evoked lots of childhood memories for all of us. Took us several days to complete.
Hiking up the Albis to get above the clouds.
Snow!
Awesome rope-swing in awesome weather.
Flying!
Cheese Raclette. We are in Switzerland after all.
Happy New Year!
Traditional Lego session. Lots of important construction work going on.
Flumserberg with Götti (godfather) Christian.
Crowded slopes in terrible weather ;-P
Lenzerheide with Christian.
Flumserberg with our neighbor Yvonne. Lukas and Ava go to the forest Kindergarten together.
Austria.
Zillertal Arena.
On the chairlift with Lukas during his ski lessons.
Anita. She got a lot more comfortable on skis and we went to the very top together.
Lukas receiving his medal.
Leonie receiving her medal. Only a few hundredths of a second behind first place. Which was held by a much older kid, so she did remarkably well!
Evening tradition at the hotel bar. Compensating all the day's skiing and swimming with a bunch of cocktails. Mustn't become too fit, right?
Trying the sledging right by the hotel.
I had to squeeze in as much skiing as I could while the kids were away taking their lessons ;-P
