We love the water playgrounds here in Vienna. Today we met up with lots of friends at the wasserspielplatz that is on Donau Insel. It is so fun for the kids with multiple shallow pools, sand play areas, a rope bridge, a wonderful...
Archive - July 2016
The kids like to perform little concerts for the family. Often they insist we record them. Oliver especially enjoys outlining the program. Elora transposed her piano song, “There is a Green Hill Far Away” into notes...
We took the kids to the Vienna Haus der Musik. We took Oliver and Elora there years ago when they were 4 and 2, but because it is included with our Niederösterreich Card we were happy to take them again for free. The Haus der...
We often pass the Wüstenhaus Schönbrunn (Schönbrunn Desert House) on our way to the zoo, and our desert-loving daughter Marion has been asking to go to it since last summer. As it turns out, our Niederösterreich card...
We love the ZOOM museum. We went again last week, but this time we went to the Art Studio. The Studio is designed like a dragon garden this year, and the kids had a great time making figures out of clay, paint, and...
We signed up for the Niederösterreich Card, which gives you access to a bunch of places for free. One of those places is the Donauturm – the largest tower in Austria – which is in the middle of a large park on the...
Our kids all love to listen to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir. It’s practically background music to their lives. Before Oliver could even speak in sentences, he was singing along to Motab. So when we heard that the 360 person...
We took the kids to the Hofburg Imperial Treasury, locally known as the Schatzkammer. Tickets are included in our annual pass to the Art History Museum and since our card is expiring we decided it was time for a visit. The kids...