Last night we stay at Burg Colmberg castle. It’s more than 1000 years old and is now owned and operated by a 3rd generation family. They were extremely hospitable. Every room in the hotel is different. It was dark and full of dead animals stuffed and hanging on the walls. There were cradles with baby dolls tucked into blankets laying there with their eyes open. It was windy, rainy and a creepy Santa clause with a 3 foot doll standing next to him, leaning on a stuffed deer in the lobby.
Dinner was amazing. We had pork, goose and venison goulash. Everyone loved their food & 3 of us thought it was our best meal yet. We finished the meal by sharing a few scoops of ice cream desserts. Perfect meal! The beer we had was brewed only to be served at the castle. It was delicious, so we bought a 6 pack to go. Breakfast was served in the dining room this morning. Meats, cheeses, cereal, breads, fruit, yogurt. The coffee was so good! Mallory was not impressed with the warm milk & Shane described his sausage as “I wouldn’t ever take another bite of that”! So dinner was fabulous & breakfast had mixed results 🙂
We made all of our ski equipment reservations last night as well. Everyone except Steve is going to ski and Shane is going to snowboard. Today we’ll arrive in Innsbruck. The Olympics has been hosted here in 1964 & 1976. The 2012 Youth Olympics was also held here. The 1976 games were held here after Denver, the original host city, declined in 1972. Shane is a good snowboarder & Mason a good skier. The two of them are super excited to hit the Alps. The other 3 of us are not so great. Alec & I have never tried skiing. I’m planning to attend ski school in the morning. Alec said he’s going to skip ski school, he said “it can’t be that hard”, so we’ll see how this goes! Mallory has skied before & snow boarded but it’s been a while. We’re hoping for an injury-free outing. Today we’ll need to buy some snow-pants & ski-goggles. I was hoping we could rent them, but no such luck. So shopping is on the agenda today, FINALLY!!
Hallway
View from the castle window
