At church on Mother’s Day, the little children came to sing to their Moms at the end of church. Elora is new to Primary, so she didn’t know the song, but as you can see she got to help conduct the music – and...
Archive - May 2009
The great thing about Austria is you sometimes get these nice, shapely potatoes.
Ever notice how when you’re feeding a child you open your mouth wide when you want them to open their mouth? Apparently, as you can see here it’s innate. Aaaaaaawwwwww. This is Ollie’s preferred method of being...
This is Chris. You could probably tell from the content of the post, but Mom wanted to know who is who. Hi Mom! Although most people probably think we’re just going on vacation and eating Kebabs every day I’m actually...
Stadtpark is a nice large city park in the center of Vienna. The weather was nice outside and decided to take the kids for a trip to a new park one day.The flowers were very pretty. Elora was dying to pick them, but luckily she...
On our last day in Lisbon we went by the bay to see some of the monuments of the once great sea faring nation. The Portuguese are very anxious to tell everyone how they “once ruled the world”.This is the monument to...
The Belem Monastery in Lisbon is right next to the pastry shop we went to on the first day. Belem means Bethlehem in Portuguese. It was too crowded during the weekend so we came back on a weekday.It was a really huge building...
Both the castle and the palace we visited were on the hills above Sintra a small picturesque touristy town. Portuguese architecture uses a lot of painted tiles. It was interesting to see all the buildings and shops with the...
Chris says that I can type, but he will be “the brains behind the operation” and tell me what to say. Apparently it doesn’t take brains to type, and he djoeusstn motor killjsdhshkfsnaeh p.ubnnk>! (PS we have two...
We heard from a friend in Vienna that we should visit the town of Sintra. After reading about it, we found out there were some castles there and decided to go visit. We jumped on the train, and after only a couple of...