24hr stop in Cortina, Italy

After we picked up Kimber at the Munich airport Sunday morning we headed on our way to Cortina, Italy. There really was no reason we decided to stop in Cortina. Just the fact that there is a bobsled track there and skeleton was suppoesd to race on it this year, but they didn't open the track because of financial problems.

The drive in was insane the mountains are crazy (they are pretty awesome everywhere but these were unbelievable.) Here are just a few pictures.

Realizing now that we would probably never get to slide in Cortina we thought it would be a cool place to stop. And it was the town was so old and cute. Its not a very big town but main street has a lot of shops, and some cool old buildings.
We walked around main street, for a while and checked out some of the shops. Most of them were having amazing sales, I was very surprised. The festival of ice sculptures must have just finished when we got there, because there was about 20 sculptures of animals or monsters. They were amazing. Probably about 10-15 feet tall or bigger.We were complete tourists and took pictures in from of them. Caleb me and Kimber in front of the polar bears.

The next day we drove around the town to find the bobsled track. It took a while to find, since they weren't using it this year they really didn't plow around it. We found some of the corners though, and it was crazy there was about 5 feet of snow in it. After that we drove to almost the top of a mountain just to drive and see the view of Cortina from the top. It was really awesome. I love the town, its just so beautiful.

We didn't do too much, we didn't have a lot of time. It was just a cool stop for a day off.