Okay, I am not actually an Austrian Original, but neither are Pringles. They were first sold in the United States in 1968. However, to get Austrians to buy an American made potato “crisp” they must convince the...
We went to the Hofburg, which is the Parliment building in Vienna andthe former Imperial palace of the Hofburg Empire, which few peopleknow extended as far as Mexico.There are tons of amazing statues all around the roof of the...
We got a lot of snow last week (for Vienna anyway), and it was perfect snow for making a snowman. Elora was really excited because she asks to build a snowman every time she sees even a tiny bit of snow on the ground.Little...
So we were told that we needed to go to Croatia by the MA35 people to renew our passport stamps. We were thinking “Croatia, isn’t that like the war zone place?”. But that was soooo 10 years ago apparently. Here...
We spent Friday driving around looking at castles. There are a ton of them around Salzburg. The first one we went to was Hohenwerfen, which was actually closed on the inside, so we just took some pics of the castle from various...
So Chris likes to take pictures while skiing, one was put up in the previous post. He was curious what he looks like while doing this, so I took a pic for him… I wonder why he wiped out on day one? Could it be he was so...
Chris made crepes for lunch today, which Elora calls roll pancakes. She had a couple left on her plate, and Chris sprinkled some powdered sugar on them for her. She said, “Thank you!” and I said, “You’re...
We went on a fun drive through the mountains in our rental car, and passed a lot of fun castles and ruins. We thought how nice it would be if we had a car so we could come back and explore all these fun places. The mountain roads...
On the way home today, a lady got on the bus wearing a big fluffy orange fur coat, along with an awesome fur hat. Elora kept staring at her and finally said (in a very serious, contemplative voice), “That lady looks like a...
Random thoughts by Karen, with a few by Chris (first commenter to guess who wrote each wins some Viennese chocolates!) Europeans are very snobbish toward McDonalds, as they should be, with the exception of the fact that they LOVE...
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