Schönbrunn Zoo

We took Elora to the zoo yesterday. I bought a year pass for only 29 Euros, a pretty good deal since it costs 12 Euros to go once… probably one of the only things I have purchased that seemed like a fair price. Elora was so...

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A Night Out!

Okay, so our last night out to dinner without the kids was… I really don’t remember, but I know it was before Oliver was born! So Chris got home from school kind of late, and by then Elora was asleep and Chris’...

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A Day in the Park

Today Elora wanted to play at the park, so we found a section of the Palace gardens where there were no signs saying to stay off the grass (in a more secluded area of the gardens) and let her run around. The trees here are the...

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Stephansplatz

This is the cathedral at Stephansplatz. I love the way it looks. Hopefully I will get pictures of the inside one of these days, but we have not spent much time inside yet. Elora likes to go here because there are church bells...

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Dessert!

We were out to do some shopping and decided to stop at the Konditorei (It is like a confection shop I think, I am not sure the exact translation) that is around the corner from our apartment. This pastry is layers of hazelnut and...

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Breakfast Time!

Chris feels it is very important to highlight the food that we eat… So this is the traditional breakfast here in Austria. Meat, Cheese, Bread. I add the tomato to my plate, and Chris always has nutella on his bread with hot...

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Some Elora Stories

Elora is cracking me up out here. She is getting so grown up and she loves to narrate everything we do. Here are a couple of my favorite stories: Just after we came here she wanted to go to her friend Spencer’s house. I...

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Schönbrunn Palace Gardens

These are the gardens at the palace. There is an entrance to them right near the apartment we were staying at. Poor Elora keeps asking to go to the park. We take her to the gardens, but it is not quite the same without swings and...

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Schönbrunn Palace

Yesterday we went on a tour of the Schönbrunn Palace. We did the Grand Tour, which meant we paid more money for the privilege of seeing 5 more rooms of the palace. I did notice that the most elaborate rooms were the ones we got...

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