Planning retreat

We escaped to the mountains last weekend for our annual planning retreat with colleagues in Austria. The location was the JUFA Hotel at Bruck an der Mur.  The train trip there was stunning, up over the Semmering mountain pass and all through snow-covered mountains.  Sheer bliss!

The kids did really well with the two-hour train ride.

 

JUFA Hotels are incredibly kid-friendly, as seen by the view from our hotel room patio.

Once we arrived, we put Eva down for a nap, showed Nathanael the play room, and sat down together to watch the snow fall and drink a Melange (Viennese cappuccino).

The kids had their own program, run by some gifted friends of ours.  They did, however, get to join us for snack time!  Eva looked so grown up, joining in with the bigger kids!

This is how Eva and I spent a couple of the meetings.

I took this picture to show the view of the forest from the meeting room.

And here was the only non-blurry picture I managed to take on the train-ride home (with a sleeping baby in my arms).

 

I promise, we did have a lot of productive and helpful meetings.  I just didn't think to take any pictures of that part.