Eastern European Holidays!!!!

Since we moved to Ireland we kind of realized deep down that we probably wouldn't be able to afford the money or the time it takes to get home to Alaska for the holidays. When I used my miles to go home in September it took me 24 hours and 4 planes and that is a LOT of time just in traveling ONE WAY and it is so boring!!! :) So since this will be our first year that we won't get to go home for Christmas EVER since we moved away from Alaska over 10 years ago, we decided to take advantage of all the paid holiday days around Christmas and New Years and have an Eastern European Adventure!!!

We are really excited and it's the only thing that makes it a little easier to be away from the Fam and Alaska for the Holidays. Ok a LOT easier, not that we don't love you to pieces of course Fam!!! :) So we just bought the tickets last night and booked our hotels. The itinerary is as follows:

Leave for Hungary on the 24th and spend Christmas in Budapest. We will spend 4 days there touring around and soaking up all the sights. Then we will ride the train to Austria and go to Vienna. I am also very excited about this since I have been to Austria 3 before times and yet never made it to Vienna or Eastern Austria as my family is from Bavaria in Germany, so we always stay on the western side of Austria in the mountains at the German border. So I am very excited and hoping for snow :) Though as a PS they are threatening snow here this weekend in Dublin. Its been chilly here and I would prefer snow to rain and 30's. And in all actuality when we are in Spain on holiday the week before and the weather is threatening upper 60's, maybe I won't be ready for snow :)

Back to the itinerary, we will be in Vienna for 4 days as well as visit Melk which is about an hour away from Vienna. Then we will ride the train to the Czech Republic and be in Prague starting for four days and be there to ring in the New Year!! :) We are so excited and I have always wanted to go to Prague and I am SO SO excited to visit the Mucha museum who I LOVE!!! Plus they will still have their world famous Christmas Market still up for a day or so which should be very festive and fun :)

So that is the the agenda and we are really excited for all the travel in December. Here is a couple of pictures from the last time we were in Austria in September/October 2008. Keep you posted on the Eastern European Holiday adventure!! :)

Salzburg, Austria

Salzburg, Austria

Hallstatt, Austria

Hallstatt, Austria

Hallstatt, Austria