I can’t believe Elora is already three years old! She is getting way too grown up – her favorite things are telling stories, being told stories, singing, dancing, telling Oliver what he can play with (and what he...
Archive - March 2009
Look! Our seeds actually sprouted and are growing! Every day Elora tells me, “I am so happy, the plants are growing!” In another pot in a different window, our green bean plants are hitting the ceiling. Wow. What you...
Elora was having a lot of fun one night, running around the house, singing and dancing, when suddenly she wanted to stop and read the scriptures, and start recalling parts from the broadway musicals Cats and Joseph and the...
We took Elora to the Schmetterlinghaus (Butterfly House), a greenhouse filled with butterflies behind the Hofburg Imperial Palace. The Vienna royalty must have had a fondness for animals, as the palace Schoenbrunn has the...
On our last day, the snowing stopped and the sun finally came out! It was a beautiful morning, so we headed off to the slopes. Here is a view from the chairlift. The chairlifts are crazy, they take you to the top of huge...
So we cooked meals at the apartment in BKK (Bad Kleinkirchheim) every night except this night. Both the kids were sick so we waited until the last night to go out. We tried to go early in the evening, but when we arrived at this...
So here we are on the chair lift that is just across from our hotel. It was actually raining like crazy down below, which isn’t that fun sitting on a chairlift getting drenched in the rain. Up top there was some awesome...
Our 6 day ski passes came with a 3 day pass to “the Thermes” (pronounced “terms”), a thermal bath and spa. It’s basically a big swimming pool complex, where instead of having heated water the pools...
We’re on a trip right now to Bad Kleinkirchheim, a ski town in lower Austria. To get there we had to spend most of the day on train or bus or making connections. It involved a long walk to the first train, a train ride to...
There is a ski hill on the outskirts of Vienna, and even though welive on the outskirts of Vienna, it’s still about an hour from us bypublic transport… But we have gone a couple times to try out our new skis, and to...