Happy Halloween! We did not bring Halloween costumes with us, because we figured that Austrians did not celebrate the holiday. However, someone at Chris’ school said that some people around here do trick-or-treat, so Chris...
Archive - October 2008
First I need to explain a couple things about shopping here in Vienna. They do not provide grocery bags, so you need to either bring your own (which is what I usually do) or you need to purchase a bag. Next, you bag your own...
Check it out! Ollie can now do a funny worm crawl. This is actually a couple weeks old, and he still chooses to crawl this way. And only when he is trying to get to something really important, like Elora’s toys. Watch until...
The director of Chris’ program at school has written in her resume that she enjoys sitting in coffee shops, so Chris asked her to recommend a good cafe. She recommended the Cafe Oberlaa, which was amazing!!! Here are the...
We finally took some pictures of the inside of St. Stephan’s cathedral. We like to come to Stephansplatz because there are lots of shops to look at and some awesome restaurants. Elora also loves the “big...
In the tradition of posting pictures of all the food we eat, here are some pics from the local pizzeria. I had the “aubergine” – eggplant, with fresh mozzarella melted on it. Pretty tasty. Elora ate all my...
We took Elora to the zoo yesterday. I bought a year pass for only 29 Euros, a pretty good deal since it costs 12 Euros to go once… probably one of the only things I have purchased that seemed like a fair price. Elora was so...
Okay, so our last night out to dinner without the kids was… I really don’t remember, but I know it was before Oliver was born! So Chris got home from school kind of late, and by then Elora was asleep and Chris’...
Today Elora wanted to play at the park, so we found a section of the Palace gardens where there were no signs saying to stay off the grass (in a more secluded area of the gardens) and let her run around. The trees here are the...
This is the cathedral at Stephansplatz. I love the way it looks. Hopefully I will get pictures of the inside one of these days, but we have not spent much time inside yet. Elora likes to go here because there are church bells...