Europe 2012

I just got back from our European vacation on Tuesday.  Yesterday I woke up vomiting and sweating - I was not well at all.  I was really hoping that I didn't come home with another bacterial infection, and the good news is, I seem to be fine today.  I have a soccer game later today that I am unsure about playing because I am still really tired, I hurt my big toe on a water slide the other day and I have a finger that was almost cut off 2 weeks ago.  I am thinking I will go and just tape the crap out of all my broken parts!

Europe was amazing!  We flew from  Calgary to Frankfurt, Frankfurt to Munich and then got a car in Munich.  We stayed in Germany the first night, then stayed in a place in Hungary the second.  After that, we stayed 8 days in a lake resort in Hungary, Keszthely off Lake Balaton, off to Budapest for 3 nights, then we drove from Budapest through Croatia, had lunch there, did a little shopping and checked out the water.  From there we drove through Slovenia and into Italy.  We stayed 4 nights in an Italian town called Gradisca d'Isonza, and went to the beach a few days in Grado, and went one day to Venice by train.  Then we were off back to Munich.  We stayed 2 nights outside Munich in a village called Etting, and then flew from Munich to London and then London back to Calgary.

It was a bit much, and I think we have decided that the packing up and moving every few days is no longer what we want to do.  I think we may pick a home base next time for a least a week at a time and just travel from there.

The kids did really good this year, there was no car sickness or a whole lot of whining from the backseat.  They were really ready to come home at the end though.  Mostly the 13 year old, but she did really well considering.  My son had a few glitches, a reaction to his amoxocillin on the 2nd day of our trip and we had to take him to the doctor in Hungary at 6am.  Then he got a burn.  But we got through it and we just have fond memories now!

I will be back to break the whole trip down and tell you all about the fun stuff we did including almost cutting my finger off, breaking into a professional soccer stadium in Italy and all the other crazy things we get up to.  In the next coming months, I will probably start to receive a bunch of speeding tickets from Austria and not having a highway pass for Slovenia that I will laugh about, and you'll get to hear all about that too.  The fun never ends!

Now I think I might keep going on the laundry, that will take a few days, and start weeding, that will also take a few days!!

(I am also going to rate my hotels on Tripadvisor, if you are interested in any European hotels.)