Over the weekend James got really sick, so Chris stayed home from church while I took the other three. We headed out pretty early in the morning and it was snowing. The city was beautifully quiet and still so early, with...
Category - Austria
We have the Niederösterreich Card which gives you free entrance to a lot of museums and activities around Austria. On Saturday we decided to go somewhere we have never visited before, so we headed over to Succession. It was a...
It has gotten really hard to get reservations at the ZOOM museum, especially since I have four kids of varying ages. The different sections of the museum are recommended for different age ranges, and only one of the sections is a...
We went skiing right after Christmas at the resort in Rauris, just outside Salzburg. The first day we got there, it was nothing but a strip of ice and lots of green hills and mountains. Luckily after lots of prayers from James...
Today we went to the latest Exhibition at the ZOOM Kinder Museum. It is called “Hör Hör Schau Schau” which means “Hear Hear Look Look” and is all about the way ears and eyes work. The exhibitions are...
Christmas is my favorite time of year, and even more so in Vienna. I love all the Christmas markets, the lights, the yummy food, warm drinks, Christmas music, and especially the Christmas ornaments! Our first market was the...
There is an art exhibition in the Votivkirche cathedral in Vienna that shows replicas of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings. I was really interested to see it, so I packed up the kids and we headed to the cathedral. To...
There was a holiday about the Austrian military, and the military set up tanks, boats, helicopters, and more right in front of the Burgtheater. The kids were really amazed to see all the equipment up close. They were a little...
We love the restaurant Plachutta. Their main dish they serve is called Tafelspitz – it is a boiled beef and it is amazing. We told the kids we were taking them to a fancy restaurant that served Emperor Franz Josef’s...
Chris took the kids to the Wiener Wiesn-Fest at the Prater. It is a big Oktoberfest celebration that has some fun kids activities, great music, tasty food. This year there was free bread-making for children at the Ströck stand...