More updates on Eric's house

Eric's house is moving along, slowly. Here are a few updates stolen from Eric

More of the ICF basement going up

Looks like a real room now

Some waterproofing. Eric and I raced the contractor Tom and his son to cover the walls with this elephant skin like stinky stuff. Damn those corners!

And another layer of of anti leak. Waterproof bomb shelter anyone?

Filling in the giant hole

There's more of course. There are even walls, a garage is framed. But pictures are held hostage on Eric's phone, so still waiting.

Baby Lada

Dasa's beautiful new baby girl, Lada.

Hugomonster!

We made it to Hluboka to see Dasa and Hugo! Dasa was just about ready to pop, being 8.75 months pregnant and the visit was a little uncertain. But baby Lada held off and we got to hang out for a little while.

Hugo is as cute as ever. So easy to make smile.

No idea what he said to me, but we laughed a lot.

I sure do miss these two (and soon 3)

Vienna

Another day, another city. this time, Vienna.

a book store for Katherine

A much cleaner glitzier city than the others. this is Mozart's street

Christmas decorations. Fancy shops, the same as any other fancy city. So kind of boring

I know this picture is out of focus, but I still like it.

Sunsets were beautiful

Part of the imperial palace complex

The Rathaus

(or city hall for us english speakers, but I like the german with my current opinion of politics)

And a huge schnitzle to end the day. And yes, we were that tired by that point. ;)

Sopron hiking

We spent the next day back in Sopron. This time exploring the hills surrounding the town. After about 12 miles of walking in Bratislava, we decided we wanted a mellow day. So we went for a hike. ha

This couple was cute.

At the edge of town, we found a watch tower that had pretty good views. Had to race an on=ld man with a cane to the top. Felt a bit pathetic at that.

From that tower we saw another and headed that way.

Only 100 years old and all

More views of Sopron

no idea who this guy is, but he's adorable

We tried to make it to this little castle, but they closed early

Beware of dog

And another walk into town for dinner. I missed this church on our original exploration, but it was pretty all lit up

Bratislava

Since we were so close, we took a day to go to Bratislava Slovakia. The train dropped us off, not at the main station, but out in the suburbs. So we walked.

Post communist coloration cheers things up a bit

A slovak crow for Serin

finally, old town, across the bridge

Shabby cool

The north gate

main square

Cool dragons on the city hall

Fill in the old windows, but paint them pretty

street view

trees and churches

I guess we went in circles, cause there's the north gate, again

symbolic?

high crime area

Fun shop windows

The funky bridge is also famous apparently

castle on the hilltop

looking down

sunset

the city was very pretty as it lit up for the night