An Austrian Christmas and a side of a ski holiday

Hello!!! I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas/holiday and is ready for another amazing year to come! Christmas in Austria was hard with out my (American/British) family but also was one of the best times of my life! In Austria we open presents on the 24th in the evening with the family after going to church. This was also my first Christmas with out snow- a bit of a change from Colorado. One of the amazing things that Austrians/ my host family does is decorate the Christmas tree with sweets and chocolate.

Decorating the Christmas tree on the 23rd

Getting dinner ready..in austria they dont have giant pot roasts, we had bread!!

Christmas tree with all the presents

Part of the family is over to open presents,minus Sebastian taking the photo

Host parents with their presents.

After we open all our presents, we move into the dining room to eat lots of food and play games late into the night. 

Before we began

About 10-15 minutes later :0

a fun night of games

packages from home came

After Christmas Eve, on Christmas day, we traveled to more of the family ate food and talked and laughed. ON the 26th my host family and I headed on ski holiday for 4 days!!!! This was an amazing time and I can't wait till semester break!

Day 1

The ski run

taken from the bottom

Amazing

view from Gasthaus that we stayed in

looking down the run

early morning 

host brother and i going down an icy slope ( not really, but id like to say we are) 

After a few days of skiing in Maria Alm, and Hoch König, we spent a day in Saalbach, Austrias largest ski area!!!!

Im silently crying and praying for snow

Sooooo

Im moving.....good bye America

Not the best photo but we are on skis

Thanks for an amazing Christmas and one of the best ski trips of my life-host family and Austria.