The Naschmarkt has a Turkish/African food store, where we bought some huge tortillas. Mexican food ingredients are very hard to come by in Vienna. Here I am spreading some $9 per pound cheddar cheese on the largest quesadilla...
Archive - February 2009
win it forward…first five comments win! I think this is an awesome game! So I decided to post it and we’ll see what happens… Do you want to win something? Read on… Here are the tagging instructions: The...
You can take the farmer out of dirt but you can’t take the dirt out of the farmer. We thought it would be nice to grow an indoor garden because we miss our garden back home and Elora talks about it all the time. Everytime...
As it has been snowing so much we went outside during one of Ollie’s naps to play in the yard for a few minutes. (don’t worry Grandparents we checked on Ollie a few times) Elora always wants to build a snowman even...
It has snowed pretty much every day for two three weeks. So we took Elora out for some sledding on the Rote Berge (the big hilly park near our house). Elora really liked sledding and kept singing “Casey Jr coming down the...
So we’re finally legal residents of Vienna. Here’s what it took to get here. The process was very lengthy, but if you want to get a glimpse of the bureaucracy, take a look. I’m curious if the US is worse...
It was a cold, blustery day filled with hufflumps and woozzles, so we decided to head to the zoo. On the way there we saw a team of no less than 3 grounds workers cutting down an old tree outside of the zoo.The more educated...
Karen came to visit me during the lunch hour of one of my classes. Actually it’s a lunch-hour-and-a-half, because good meals require lots of relaxing and talking in Europe. Elora was passed out by the time we found a place...
There was a Van Gogh exhibit here that I really wanted to go to, but I kept forgetting until the last day… so off we went to the Albertina to see it and there was a huge crowd. It was awesome though, because they have to...
On Valentine’s Day Elora and I decided to make some cookies for Chris. Elora loves making cookies, because she is allowed to stick her hands in the flour and sugar, but mostly because she gets to eat the dough (we always...