MERRY CHRISTMAS EVERYBODY!! I hope everyone has had a great Christmas filled with many of Santa's toys ;)

Reunited with my family!! Depart my last hostel of my euro-trip, give out all my backpacking food and items (felt a little like santa hehe), and headed on an exciting train trip to Prague, Czech Republic!

Arrive at a HOTEL! Didnt exactly know what to do... people opened doors for me, I had no idea what to say to the reception and they took my bags to the room! Lol, but after adjusting to the change from hostels to hotels, re-teaching myself table manners and remembering how to speak properly, i was back to my good old 'gentleman' self ;) But anywhos, was anxiously waiting for my family to arrive, had time for a quick gym-sesh, and after an hour or so I saw them pull up! So busted out of the hotel in my sports gear into -12 weather to greet them; managed to get a lot of strange looks lol! Was great to see them all again, had a lot of stories to tell, but they were pretty jet-lagged so couldnt overload them straight up.

So, Prague with the family! Pretty nice city, realllllyyyy good shopping (bought 'another' 2 pairs of shoes), amazingly cheap food and drinks, and pretty nice touristy things aswell! Overall an amazing city. With the fam, went to see the Prague castle, biggest castle in europe, went to see a small orchestra which was crazy-amazing (haha, totally different things to what id be doing if I was by myself lol). Also did some cool tours, the coolest of which was going to Horror town, which has a church which has the bones of 40,000 people decorating the inside... creepy? a bit.. but kinda cool. The dinners were sooo goooddd... way better then my awesome supermarket 2 euro meals hahaha! One night, devoured 2kgs of meat with my bro.. heaven? Headed out with my bro a couple nights, one of which was pretty fun. Local bars, cheap drinks, then went to a weirdish bar-club.. played fussball with some people that we met (this one girl was seriously pro.. no joke, ud lose to her). Needed a partner once for a fussball match, so told this french girl to join me, ended up getting on quite well with her so chilled with her for the rest of the night. So the start of my 'Thumm eurotrip' was pretty good!!

After, off to St Anton, with a nights stay in Salzburg. Nothing happened in Salzburg, only had a few hours to do anything really. So, arrived in St Anton a day before Christmas Eve, and here until just after New Years!! So going to have an awessommeee time here, this is what I, and my family have been really looking forward to. First day was just hiring all out ski gear, which takes ages. Went out with my bro just for a couple drinks; we 'dominated' the pool table that night, no-one could beat us... until unfortunatly we sunk the 8-ball too early...eh.. But first day on the slopes was ffuunnn; St Anton has to be the hardest slopes iv ever been on. Was Snowboarding for the first day, actually I did a lot better then I thought seeing that the slopes were so hard. Iv only done it once before (for one day), so had to reteach myself, but wasnt so bad. Fell a lot, tons of bruises, but it was worth it to look awesome ;) haha. Christmas eve, had a really nice dinner with the family - 6 course meal!! was crazy. Christmas day, switched to skiis to have some fun busting down the mountain. Took an hour to get back into the swing of it, but was so much fun. Could actually bust around with my bro now, so that makes it a lot funner. Got a bit over-confident though; went through some trees and came off a jump, landing on my hip which was trashed from snowboarding yesterday... I had to get an emergency lift back down to the bottom lol. So rest of the afternoon was just relaxing to recover for tomorrow - awesome christmas day haha.

Any whos, going to get back on a mountain with my bro tomorrow and for the rest of the week; should be fun! Ill let you know what happens at the end ;)

Merry Christmas ;)