New Years 2008 in Maria Alm Austria

The Adventure is about to begin... :)

Picking up the girls at Munich International Airport

Aaaand it didn't take long before we were drinking! Prost!

The one... The only.... DENGL ALM!

MRSA makes an apperance at the Dengl Alm!!

'I'm an Eskimo!'

Going for a walk, sleds make it go faster!

Charlie's Angels...


New Year's Eve is off and running... Thanks for the bottle of Mumm!

At the Jufen with a Schlitten of pear schnapps (Willies)

Kenneth and his sister Jennifer, this is normal for them

Ladybugs are given as gifts for good luck in the new year.... one of them didn't quite make it

Steinhausen with a pear schnapps

Happy 2008!

Standing outside at Midnight with sparklers, dodging the fireworks!

Ahhhhh New Year's! Nothing finer than a back-pack full of fireworks and a beer!

Hammering nails... notice you use the thin end of the hammer

Rodeling in Leogang (20 Euro for as many rides as you can fit in from 6 pm - 9:30pm)

Pushing the limits of the cameras' working capacity at -10 C

Drinking from the wagon wheel...

Happy Birthday Steinhausen!!

Becky's AMAZING first day of Skiing!!!

Taking the train to Salzburg

Salzburger Dom

At Schloss Mirabell

Mozart's Birthhouse

Back at d' Alm Hüttn

American Cellphone, Austrian Cellphone, German Cellphone.... argh

The two handed approach is cheating!

Nice Kenneth..

Martin, the Foxtrotting fiend!

At the Jufen for Gramperl Lauf!



This is a strange Austrian tradition which is intended to scare teenagers and children into behaving for the next year... the Gremlin creatures come out and chase people around. Sometimes they lock the people they catch into a cage but you definitely get a whipping if you're not careful... Creeeeeeepy!

Ask Steinhausen and Becky about hiding in a tractor wheel...



One even came inside... before Rosa chased him back out!


We made the 9am train!

Hofbrau Haus in Munich

Prost (with our Mass Bier)

We found Paulaner!