Our niece Christiana is staying with us for the summer! We are excited to have her visit and show her around the city. There are some important firsts that Christiana has to experience while staying with us. She had her first...
Category - Concert
Elora and Oliver planned a concert and chose to invite our friends, Elder and Sister Green, who are on a mission here in Vienna. They will be heading home in a couple of weeks so we were excited to have them over. Elora and...
We surprised the kids with tickets to a Lindsey Stirling concert! Elora loves Lindsey Stirling and has watched all of her youtube videos. We didn’t tell them where we were going until it was time to leave and then we handed...
We got tickets to the Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Concert – it has been a lifelong dream of our little boy to attend one of these concerts! Both sets of grandparents and my sister’s family also got tickets and...
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...
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...
A few months back, we booked tickets for The Marriage of Figaro at the Vienna Opera. (By the way, the performance was much better in the opera we saw than that link) We splurged and got pricey box seats. The ticketing...
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...
Every year the Vienna Philharmonic puts on a free concert at the Schönbrunn Palace in Vienna. This year it drew 100,000 people. We decided to get their early and try to hear the concert from up on the hill. We have seen people...
These pictures are from June. I kept waiting until we had the video we took to upload, but that just kept being put off… so finally, we decided to go on a date since we haven’t done that in awhile, and when the new...