Ollie “the Valentine” Williams celebrated his 1st birthday in style in the chic Vienna Hietzing district.He loved having us sing Happy Birthday to him. We ended up singing it three times just because he had such a...
Archive - February 2009
Here we are at the Kunst Historisches Museum, which is a huge art history museum. We bought a year membership which gets us into like, 7 different museums… Elora loves to look at paintings and statues, but only for a short...
And how old is Chris now? Don’t bother asking him, he doesn’t know until he stops to count the candles… For Chris’ birthday, we were actually on a skiing vacation (actually we were in Zagreb on my Bday!)...
In front of the Rathaus all December long there is a Christmas market, after Christmas, they put a huge ice skating rink in the front for 2 months. So we took Elora to go skating for the first time.The Rathaus is too big for our...
Today we had to go to the post office to pick up a package, and then decided to go to the grocery store while we were out. So, to get to the post office, we have to walk about a kilometer and take a streetcar and then walk some...
So, when fairy tales end in German, they don’t say, “And they lived happily ever after”. They say, “And if they are not dead, they are still out there somewhere”. Which maybe explains a whole host of...
Okay, I am not actually an Austrian Original, but neither are Pringles. They were first sold in the United States in 1968. However, to get Austrians to buy an American made potato “crisp” they must convince the...
We went to the Hofburg, which is the Parliment building in Vienna andthe former Imperial palace of the Hofburg Empire, which few peopleknow extended as far as Mexico.There are tons of amazing statues all around the roof of the...
We got a lot of snow last week (for Vienna anyway), and it was perfect snow for making a snowman. Elora was really excited because she asks to build a snowman every time she sees even a tiny bit of snow on the ground.Little...