Foggy Mountain Top

On Friday we drove into Sudtirol, which was once part of Austria, but was given to Italy after WWI. All of the signs are in both Italian and German. In Sexton/Sesto, we took a gondola up the Helm mountain to a lookout point to see the Dolomites, but unfortunately it was too cloudy. The gondola was very crowded, and we soon learned why- an entire chorus was on vacation together and they sang songs the whole way up!
We ate lunch at the Hahnspiel Hütte. Left to right: Alois, Andrea, Jakob, Ingrid, and David.
We were treated to a concert by the Italian chorus.

This is what the view is when it's not cloudy:
For dinner we all went to Jakob's mother house and she made "Schlipfkrapfen." They are potato dumplings sprinkled with a local cheese, Kasebolla, and pork fat. This makes them slippery, which is where the name comes from ("slippery dumpling").