We take public transit to church every Sunday. It takes 30 – 40 minutes depending on whether or not we make our connections. We go to church in the afternoon, so we tend to pack a lunch and leave early so we can have a...
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As we walked down the street in Vienna heading to the park, we came across this cute outdoor craft area on Neustiftgasse. It is set up by Sous-Bois, a stationary store that offers various classes on book-making and sells...
The kids have a point jar at home that they get to add a point to when they are being extra helpful, do chores with a good attitude or without being asked, work hard on their school work, etc. When the jar is full they get a...
Today the kids had a great time showing some friends around the Kunsthistorische Museum (Art History Museum) in Vienna. We have always come by ourselves and it was so fun (and sometimes funny) to watch how the kids decided to...
On Wednesday afternoons the Natural History Museum has a showing at their Digital Planetarium that is in English. The kids have always wanted to go to the planetarium, and today it was raining so it was a perfect day to watch the...
Whenever we are somewhere with cable TV, the kids love to watch Chopped on the Food Network. Or rather they’ve learned to love it, since we watch it whenever we have the chance. So the kids have begged us to hold regular...
Every Saturday we make our weekly trip to the Naschmarkt, a mile long market of fresh produce, restaurants, and an antique flea market . But the most important thing we do is get a Döner Kebap and go to the park. The kids all...
All over Austria there is a big event called Lange Nacht der Kirchen where all the churches in the country hold concerts and other activities late into the night. As there is a cathedral on every other block in Vienna we took...
There’s a hipster-ish pizza place around the corner from our apartment called La Pausa where you can order a meter long pizza. So that’s what we did for dinner at the park tonight!
We homeschool and usually try to do our school work in the morning before heading out to a park or other fun activity in the afternoon. This morning when Oliver was supposed to write in his journal, he asked if we could go to the...