We stayed in a "Haus" which is pretty much a guesthouse. It was situated literally on the side of a mountain, luckily one of the warmer, green ones though. We got an entire apartment, complete with kitchen, dining room, and two bedrooms. It was soo nice. The guy who ran the place told us where to go to catch the bus to the mountain and also about some thermal spa/ pool place.
So, first thing's first. We needed to ski. The first day we got up super early and caught the first bus to the mountain. Obviously there are tons of mountains everywhere, so we picked one of the biggest ones and skied there the whole time. We all rented skis and equipment and headed to the bunny hill...I went with my friend Kitsa and Matt. I've skied for a long time, and Kitsa has been snowboarding for a while as well...but Matt has never done either...hence the bunny hill. So after yelling "PIZZA" and "SPAGHETTI" for a long time, several falls into the kiddy racing course, and many lifts later, Matt kind of sort of got the hang of it. We decided to go down some slopes on the actual mountain, and he did pretty well. When he took breaks Kitsa and I would go down harder slopes. Since it was so late in the season the snow melted really fast and it got pretty slushy towards the end of the days. Both days were super warm, and I ended up skiing without a coat on...aka just a Tshirt and sweatpants. It was glorious.
Afterwards we decided to seek out the sauna/pool that we had heard about. A "3k walk down the road" turned into a 7k adventure through town complete with various questions asked auf Deustch for directions. Eventually we found it...there were two waterslides outside. Good sign. There was a red one, in which you literally go upside down. (You start in the top, and the floor drops out from under you and you go up and around). And a spiral blue one. The slides were outside, but the entrances and exits to them were inside so they were open for us. Inside, there was a wave pool, a normal pool, and another pool that connected to a pool outside. The outside pool was the greatest...since it was chilly out and the pool was heated, you could see the steam in the air outside. In addition, this place was at the foot of the mountains so we admired the sunset from a steaming pool outside in the alps. Best.
We enjoyed the wave pool as well and some of the hot tubs. Such a great follow up to skiing Day 1. Then we went down a snake slide in the kiddie pool...good stuff. But this place was awesome, and made for a perfect vacation.
The second day it was about 2 degrees colder...meaning I got to ski without a jacket again. This time we went down a harder slope, and since it was so warm the snow was getting all mogul-ly, so ..not the best decision to take a beginner down that, but Matt did pretty well. After that Kitsa and I did a few runs by ourselves and decided to call it a day. It was kind of sad, leaving those amazing views. Every run was absolutely gorgeous and I loved every minute of it. It was such a relaxing break to get out of the city with a few friends and just chill out. I love nature and this made me super excited to go hiking when it gets warm out and running on Danube Island. I'm also thinking of running the U4 but we'll have to see what my shins think about that idea;)
top of the mountain:
on one of the trails:
the lodge where we ate lunch:
the view from lunch:
the view from where we stayed:
the sauna/pool place:
not a bad view to wake up to:
it was so warm...hence the 90s- coat-around-the-waist thing goin on here:
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