Happy Father's Day In Austria!

Missy, Dominic, Steve, Stefanie, Rachel, AJ

We celebrated Father's Day weekend spectacularly. One of Steve's favorite things is Formula 1 racing, we have been watching it for over 20 years. When the Austrian Grand Prix fell on the same weekend as Father's Day we decided it was the perfect way to spend the weekend.

Happy Father's Day Dad!

Our friends Vanessa and Abel are also BIG fans so along with their boys Abel and Alan they joined us.

The guys wanted to be there EARLY for the qualifying so they took one car and left around 5am. The girls weren't quite as eager so we left at a leisurely 730! The guys had a great time at qualifying even though it was quite wet for most of the morning and afternoon.  When we arrived it was pouring so they told us to hang out in the car, after a little while they told us to bail and head to the hotel and they would meet us there.  The weather was icky, we didn't need to be told twice!!

Dominic, Abel and AJ - Steve's camping tarp came in handy!

Dominic & AJ - to be fair the weather did clear up!

We found our hotel on the sweet little Thalersee (Thaler Lake) and had lunch and naps! Rachel and Alan's 8th grade boat cruise was the night before, we were tired! Afterwards while we waited for the guys we walked around the lake and realized that we were in the same town where Arnold Schwarzengger is from.

Stefanie

Thalersee

The weather had cleared nicely and by the time the guys had arrived we were sitting outside watching a rainbow having drinks. We all had dinner because they were starving. That night there was a wedding at our hotel but the restaurant was still open so we enjoyed the festivities too. The band was really good and at one point two of the waiters did a dance to the same song Uma Thurman and John Travolta dance to in Pulp Fiction. It was hilarious! We found out later they were brothers and they entertained us all night long.

Alan, Abel, Rachel, Stefanie, AJ & Dominic

Abel & Vanessa, Missy & Steve

Sunday was race day and we left early to secure a good spot. We sat in general admission since we had the kids, this way we had more room and the ability to move around a lot.

Kids are ready for a race!

It's never too cold for ice cream!

AJ & Dominic

Missy & Vanessa

Abel, Steve & Abel

It was a good race and we had fun celebrating the dads while watching the race. Of course we all got tricked out in Ferrari gear.  Ferrari is Steve's favorite team so it's ours too!