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Tally Ho

 Today we said goodbye to Switzerland and hello to Italy. I had planned to spend yesterday afternoon getting us packed and ready to go, but 3.5 hours in the ER derailed my plans. We arrived back from the ER just in time for me to log in and start seeing clients. So I got up early this morning and got to work. We packed up and headed out for the next leg of our journey.

Poor Azy is pretty beat up today. Her face is bruising up, she has a black eye on the left side, and her chin is pretty sore. She lost a tooth today as well on the car ride, but I do not think that was related to her accident yesterday thankfully (it was a baby tooth and was meant to fall out).

Our drive was about 7 hours today to get to Val Gardena, Italy. We headed through a bit more of Austria today which was fun to see. At one point we were going up a road that had tons of switchbacks going up to a crazy tunnel in the side of the mountain. We didn't get to go through the tunnel, our path went a different way, but it was fun to see. We stopped for some treats in Austria and snapped a couple pictures.


We finished listening to Steelheart on the drive. The girls really enjoyed it. Cormac and I have both read it before. I think Ammon also liked it. We also got through Mitosis today and have started listening to Firefight. Thank goodness for audiobooks to keep the peace on these long drives.

Our Air BnB is super cute. While it doesn't have as much space as the last one, it is also not small. It is 3 stories. We have a sauna in the basement. Then a fairly large living room area, dinning room, and a nice sized kitchen. The girls are sharing a room upstairs and Cormac has his own room. This place is older. The wood work on the ceiling of the living room is very fun. The kids really like it. We still have a pretty awesome view as well.






At our restaurant tonight the napkins were very fun. We decided to label today's post in honor of our napkins.

The kids were good sports on the drive today and we are all excited for a new set of adventures. Though, Ammon and I are still healing up. I'm worried that the kids will get it, so we are trying to do what we can to keep them healthy. Azure is already sick of the cast and wants to be done with it. We will have to rearrange a few of the adventures we had planned since Azy can't use her right arm, but for the most part we are still happy to be out seeing the world.

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  1. Mark DahlJune 28, 2024 at 9:27 PM

    Looks like a great air bnb and some more great scenery. Get well soon.

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