Anna's Blog: ...more Austria photos.

We rounded out our day of skiing and headed down the mountain. By 5pm we were down, packing up gear and heading for our hotel...40K or 25 miles away, but Bossy (the GPS) kept telling us it was going to take a solid 2 hours to get there. We were a little confused, but went with it. Within 15 minutes we had knocked out 24K and still Bossy was telling us we had 1 hour 40 minutes to go. Still confused we kept driving...then when Bossy told us to take a right...onto some train tracks, we figured it out. We had to drive our car onto a 'train ferry' to take us through a mountain. OHHHH. Silly us, why didn't we think of that earlier *insert sarcasm here*. Well it didn't take an hour but we didn't have to wait too long before the train came and we loaded the car up. Once on the train we had to get out and ride in a passenger car.

We finally made it to the hotel in Bad Gastein. In Germany and in Austria any city beginning with BAD has a 'therme' or spa located in the town. Well in Bad Gastein, ours happened to be right outside of our hotel. The 4 of us headed off for the therme to relax and recoop after a day of sking. We were more like kids in a candy store. There was a slide - which we went down about 40 times, a diving board - that Brian used to smack his face on the pool bottom, and awesome heated pools outdoors and inside and a sauna, that we didn't go in, b/c you had to be naked or have a towel - no bathing suits allowed.

After hanging out in the therme for a few hours we hit up a chinese restaurant across the street and heading home for some much needed sleep.