Christmas is my favorite time of year, and even more so in Vienna. I love all the Christmas markets, the lights, the yummy food, warm drinks, Christmas music, and especially the Christmas ornaments! Our first market was the...
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There is an art exhibition in the Votivkirche cathedral in Vienna that shows replicas of Michelangelo’s Sistine Chapel paintings. I was really interested to see it, so I packed up the kids and we headed to the cathedral. To...
There was a holiday about the Austrian military, and the military set up tanks, boats, helicopters, and more right in front of the Burgtheater. The kids were really amazed to see all the equipment up close. They were a little...
We love the restaurant Plachutta. Their main dish they serve is called Tafelspitz – it is a boiled beef and it is amazing. We told the kids we were taking them to a fancy restaurant that served Emperor Franz Josef’s...
Chris took the kids to the Wiener Wiesn-Fest at the Prater. It is a big Oktoberfest celebration that has some fun kids activities, great music, tasty food. This year there was free bread-making for children at the Ströck stand...
Our friends Peter and Beate invited us to go hiking with their family to the Burgruine Mödling. We took a short train trip to the town of Mödling and walked through the town to get to the beautiful hills where we began our...
Chris heard about a restaurant where your food is served by a roller coaster, and we decided something that cool needed to be checked out in person! The restaurant is at the Prater, our favorite amusement park. We headed over...
The kids kept seeing posters for the Roncalli Circus all over the city. They were so excited when Chris announced he bought tickets to go see it! It was set up right in front of the Rathaus and was so festive and lively with...
After watching Elora try out the 3Wave Surfing, Chris and I decided to give it a go. I have always wanted to surf. Elora and Oliver came to watch and take pictures of our efforts. The session starts out with a bar across the pool...
Chris came home from his work trip with some birthday surprises for me. He found a fun new gadget store in Paris called Pylones that has all sorts of weird gadgets like wind up salt and pepper shakers, mini lady bug vacuum...