We had a very good sleep in the spacious farm house and woke up to the most beautiful views all around us. We took some time to just enjoy the calm and fresh air with coffee in hand as the kids played and poked around the farm. The valleys around are dotted with farmhouses and small barns all around. At night the lights twinkle. You can see many church steeples when looking over the valley. All the houses have balconies with flowers. You can tell much pride is taken in having beautiful flowers. Such a different way of life from what we are used to.
A highly recommended activity in the area was to go ride the Kellerjochbahn and hike. The Kellerjochbahn is a chair lift from a ski resort that is used in the summer to bring hikers up the mountain. The pictures are quite self explanatory, and can hardly capture the stunning views we enjoyed all around. It was a real treat to be able to hike like this, also without bear warnings. The temperature was +30 and we all got a nice tan. Everyone was happy to be there and Marla proved the champ by sitting in the backpack carrier for just a few minutes and insisting on hiking the entire way herself. She had her "monkey" fingerling along and showed him everything along the way. You can see him popping up on the pictures.
Below: notice the red and white striped Austrian flag on the rock. They are common trail markers in the Alps.
Our little trooper 💗💗💗 she is such a good sport.
There were two sections to this hike. The girls waited with me by our lunch spot while the boys went to the Kellerjoch Hutte which was just a bit too steep for the little ones.
These signs show the most common hikes from where we were. The boys were dreaming big for "someday". Who knows, maybe they will come back.
Once we were back down at the main restaurant, which was at the top of the lift we sat for a while to enjoy the views (and watch the wedding that was taking place!). We got a fresh pretzel to enjoy as well, so we could use the chairs;)
Supermarkets do not offer a lot of fresh fruits and vegetables to snack on where we were (or in Holland or Germany either). They do have a lot of fresh, and amazing breads though which we ate a ton of. By this time, being gone from our normal diets for 9 days the kids were begging for more fresh fruit and vegetables in our diets and less bread. So I had "splurged" and picked up some bags of baby carrots and strawberries and cucumbers etc. and taken them along in our knapsack. Abby asked for the bag of baby carrots to snack on while in the ski lift. When we were at the bottom I asked her where they were so I could put them back in the knapsack and she admitted she had eaten them all. Every last one. We got a good chuckle from that.
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