The boys and I had been in the states for about 6 weeks and I was lucky enough to have my mom fly back to Germany with me. I was much in need of a few days without the kids, so Ben bought my mom and I train tickets to Salzburg for the weekend. I'm still not sure how I felt about taking the train. Have to hop from one to the other, trying not to be late and missing it, and not knowing what to do if we did miss it, made me pretty nervous. The first couple t...

Have you ever had an itch that you needed to scratch? Well, Ben had an itch, an 18 year itch, as a matter of fact. 1994 was the last time he had gone skiing and he had reached his breaking point. He put his foot down and said "The next trip we are going on is skiing." With that said, I was put to work as a free travel agent, scouring every ski area in Austria and Switzerland within a five hour drive.  Weather in Bavaria is unpredictable and we knew that a f...