We took Mom (Nana) to visit the church at Karlsplatz. The outside is very beautiful, and you have to pay to go in. So we always wanted to wait until we had a nice clear day outside because there is a panorama look out that is...
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On our last day in Budapest, we walked across the river to the “Buda” side of the city to walk around the Budavar castle and Fisherman’s Bastillion. The other side of the city, across the river where we were...
We’re staying near the Opera house in Budapest. Today we decided to walk, instead of taking the metro, to Hero’s Square, which was 2.5km.Elora and Ollie were both very excited to get out of the stroller once we...
My (Chris’) Mom came to visit us in Vienna and we decided to take the train over to Budapest for a few days.Here we are after our full 3 hour train ride (which the Austrian train service calls a “just over 2 hour...
These are pics from various trips to the Schmetterling Haus over the past couple months. We spend a lot of time there… and will probably be spending even more now that winter is coming! Oliver really loves running...
Elora has been asking to go to the zoo forever, so we decided to spend the morning there last week before it got too hot.Oliver now walks everywhere, and was super excited to climb all the fences and tried to jump in all the...
As we’ve written previously, Kebabs are perhaps the greatest sandwich ever. Every American (and immigrant from other countries) that comes to Vienna loves to eat Kebab. So we decided to have some other Kebab loving friends...
Chris goes to class in the Palais Lichtenstein, and we recently discovered that there is a HUGE playground there. So while Chris went to class, we came to play at the park while waiting for his lunch break. Elora’s friends...
My friend Bindi and I went out (without kids!!!!) to see The Proposal at one of the English movie theaters here. I had told Bindi that Chris wouldn’t want to pay to see it in the theater, and she generously offered to go...
We took the kids back to the Vienna Art History Musuem to see the ancient Egyptian section. Elora was really excited to see it because she loves anything to do with Pharoahs and Sphinxes. She likes to hear the story of a Sphinx...