Day 1
December 7, 2009
Hi everyone back @ home!
We’re currently in Salzburg, tucked away from the hustle and bustle of the usual city life, and residing in a cosy and quaint little house that was love at first sight! 
here’s the living area…
that’s yiheng in the kitchen, washing the dishes… aww.. so sweet of him! 
not forgetting our bedrooms!
We touched down today at Munich airport at around 530am (Munich time) this morning (7dec) and have had one of the longest day of our lives since we’re like 7 hours back! Headed to pick up the sturdy and huge van that we’ve called FRED (it’s a Ford and we decided to give it a name since we’re gonna have it for the next 27 days). Fred has been great since this morning and we can’t wait for Foong yi, Uncle Gary and Michelle to be over to join us!! You can afford to bring more baggages because the ‘boot’ is really hugeeee!!
We wanted to go to the Eagle’s Nest but found out later that it was closed for the winter and will only be opened in May 
However, we were able catch a puny glimpse of it from the foot of the mountain. Instead of Eagle’s Nest, we headed to this pretty lake at Konigssee with super pretty mandarin ducks!
However, we were able catch a puny glimpse of it from the foot of the mountain. Instead of Eagle’s Nest, we headed to this pretty lake at Konigssee with super pretty mandarin ducks!
Another place of interest that we visited was the Salt Mine where we took an awesome interactive tour in the tunnels of the salt mine. Will fill you people in when we’re back but here’s a COOL PHOTO of us for now 
Okay, that’s about all for the highlights of day 1. We’re all turning in now, even before 10pm (Munich time) because it has been a super duper long day for all of us and we need to recharge for skiing tomorrow!
Good night for now everyone!
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December 7, 2009 at 10:51 pm
can’t wait to get there and see FRED !!!! heeeee……
looked like you guys had a good and relax 1st day !! Was it cold ????
Thank you for the photos…. now i know who is the shortest !!! Haaaa… luckily I’m not there yet….
December 7, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Great pictures. Great places. Great people. Great reporting. Keep those coming
December 7, 2009 at 11:37 pm
Showed Michy’s the photo… and she laughed @ FRED. She said FRED should be a name of a frog… not a car ! She loved the apartment and she thought the last pic of all of you was funny like going to the space !!
December 8, 2009 at 1:45 am
You all arrived in Germany and drove to Austria to rest. This is being in 3 different countries within a short period of 24 hours (Singapore, Germany and Austria from Sunday evening to Monday evening, Singapore Time). That is a road much travelled. Are you all trying to make world smaller?
December 8, 2009 at 5:37 am
Hey, you 6 fellows in the dark-grey uniform. Are you trying to perform your version of Sound of Music or what – do re mi fa so la (no si eh?). For an attempt, I must say you fellows got it just about right there.
December 8, 2009 at 6:38 am
Wow! Your bedrooms look like they just popped out from some fairy-tale books – Hansel and Gretel? Mama loves the classical European look of the rooms.
December 8, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Hello Holiday-Makers,
To see all of you holiday-makers enjoying yourselves with such wild abandon naturally makes us, the proletariats who still need to work our guts out back home in Singapore green with great jealousy.
But I am not going to let jealousy be a one-way street.
While you are dining on your bratwurst, schnitzel and sauerkraut and then downing all these with German beer, Por Por whipped up two dishes that will send all of you somewhere out in the Austrian Alps or some German Highlands all salivating.
Por Por cooked stir-fried hor fun with crabmeat, prawn, julienne chicken and pork fillet. Wow!
As if this is not enough, she topped it up with a special dish she had never done before. It is bee hoon stir-fried with blue lobster (a specie of lobster much bigger than the ordinary lobster which is very popular with Bostonians of New England, USA). The dish was better than ‘mama mia’. It was completely out of this world! Wow! Wow! Word has it that If all of you behave well, the dish will be replicated when you are back in Singapore.
Shalom.
EL/Papa