Salburg, August and September

Great so far! Spent a day at the Halenbad in Birschesgarten; Britta really wants to take swimming lessons!

Made it to Oktoberfest at the last day, which was fun. Accidentally took the first class train there, then rained a bit during the day, but the girls were troopers.

The girls saw their first circus (with cows and horses instead of elephants and lions, but all good!).

Twins are doing school from ~8:30-12:30; and gymnastics once a week. They seem to love it all. The first few weeks they rode their own bike, since we didn’t have the connector for the bike trailer. Now Andrea takes them by bike each day.

Annika has school from 8:00-1:00 (12:00 on Tues); since the second day of school she walks there herself, usually with friends.

Taking ballet (started with one school but now attending another); plays irregularly on a boys soccer team; and also gymnastics, irregularly. Gym is too bad – I think the level is higher than she is used to and she’s intimidated and aware that most of the girls are better than her, but we want her to stick with it. They expect her to attend 3 days a week – for 3 hours each time! Can’t manage that, but we’ll try.

Altogether the girls have literally spent less time in the car these 8 weeks in Salzburg than they usually spend in one week in Tahoe. Excellent!