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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Karlsplatz

Today we went over to Karlsplatz, which is a church that is now a museum. It was built in the 1700’s, and is very beautiful. There is also a nice park there where Elora got to go on the teeter-totter and swings. Then we...

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Sunday

Today we made the trek to church. It takes about 45 minutes to get there, but we got to see some really beautiful architecture when we got off the train and wandered around looking for the bus stop. We are not really bad with...

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