A Day with Opa's Family ...

May 22, 2016

After our lunch at Gasthof Engelhof ...

we went on a road trip ... touring on our way to Steinbach ...

to meet with our cousins from Dad's family ...

It was an absolutely beautiful place ... you could see the Attersee from the house ...

The surroundings were spectacular ...

It was wonderful to meet the family ... Erni is my dad's first cousin ...

her father and my Opa were brothers ...

Erni has three sons ... unfortunately we were only able to meet two of them ...

the youngest son and his wife live in the home with Erni ...

the oldest son built a house across the street ...

The picture on the bottom righthand corner ...

is of my Opa when he was a young man ...

We had a wonderful time visiting ...

Wolfgang continued to tell us stories and history of our families ....

Our journey continued to our next destination ... driving by the countryside ...

thru tunnels to TraunKirchen ...

where the church was built high up onto a rock ...

Our dinner destination was at the "Landhotel Gruenberg am See"(Green Mountain Hotel by the lake) ...

it has a beautiful restaurant ...

We were delighted to see Franz and Karin waiting for us at our table ...

Franz had had a long day ... traveling back from Italy ...

We were grateful that we would be able to spend the evening with everyone ...

After our dinner ... Franz took me to meet Ingrid ... the owner and cook ...

I could have my choice of any dessert I wanted ...

it probably took me 15 minutes to decide ... there were so many to choose from ...

Ingrid also has written her own cookbooks and has a cooking school ...

We spent the evening ... talking ... laughing ... drinking ...

Hmmmm ... see that little hand make it's way to Mike's schnapps ...

(made from the Alpine Pine Tree) ...

Oma said she just wanted to smell it ... and then she couldn't resist and had to have a little taste ...

This seemed to be the ritual everytime Mike had an after dinner schnapps ....

The setting was incredible ... out on the deck ...

and then just as beautiful when the sun started to disappear ...

We spent the whole evening there ...

and as usual we were one of the last ones to leave ...

It was wonderful to speak with the owners and all the servers ... !!!

Franz & Ingrid are frequent visitors to Canada and they love our country ... !!!

 

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