Catching up...

Immediately after Paris i spent a week in the Allgau region- a region very close to the Alps.  We stayed in a house  owned by family friends directly in the mountains.  To get to the house we traveled this 6-8 foot driveway on a cliff... very scary, especially since the first time we drove on it was in the night time. I didn't look right..

This week was so relaxing but a little overwhelming.  German is a VERY hard language to learn (ill get more into that in my next post)... and i listened to a lot of german that week.

We hiked the first day up to this really cool roller coaster that brings you down the whole mountain.  Pia and i went together and the first time we went she kept saying "langsam lauren, langsam!" "Slow, lauren, slow."  Though i wanted to go a bit faster this was a little scary for me as well and i love roller coasters.  You sat in a 2 person go cart; Pia sat pretty much on my lap.  You zig-zagged down the mountain controlling how fast you went, quick turns, quick drops it was quite a mountain roller coaster.
The second time we went was a little different instead of langsam it was schnell schnell lauren! fast fast lauren fast! I took deep breaths and went fast.. it wasn't like i could close my eyes i needed to know when we really needed to slow down. all in all when i act my age it was a lot of fun. A beautiful day.

The second day was a zip lining tour.  a stressful day to say the least.  I was with Pia and one other 9 year old boy everyone else stayed back as the other kids were too small.  It was a lot of fun, but when i say stressfull it was because its hard to explain to a 6 year old how to go about certain obstacles when she can speak little english and you can speak little german (again ill get into this more later). Alex a tour guide working down below the zip lining course became my new friend.. everyone knew that the girl wearing a black sweatshirt and pink sneakers was english... great.  But thanks Alex- you saved me that day!

The next few days were spent hiking, shopping, reading, running. It was so relaxing- though it was hard being without a phone for a week it was nice. The last day we went to the start of the Alps- all of those pictures are on my phone, but boy oh by i can't wait to really go to the Alps- just the start of it was breathaking.  Pictures dont even do justice.
The sun was reflecting on half of the mountain- it was just so pretty i can't explain it- just go to the Alps.

The view and our house we stayed in.

View from the Roller Coaster