Back in Budapest

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...

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Kebab Party

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...

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A Night Out for Mom

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...

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Belvedere Garden

The Belvedere Palace is famous for bringing some of the best artwork in the world to Vienna. We were excited to take the kids to see the palace and enjoy the paintings, but things didn’t quite go as planned…Since we...

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Fun Around the House

Okay, so I am kind of behind on the posting, and I have a collection of random pics of the kids that I decided to dump into one post. Enjoy!Teddy on his potty. What more needs to be said? Elora trying on a hat sample Chris is...

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Lainzer Tiergarten

We had some nice weather so we took the kids out for a hike in the Vienna imperial hunting grounds. It’s not a far walk from our apartment, but you have to walk a good way up hill so you work up a nice sweat. We found...

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Easy Doctors Visit

We interrupt this Rhodes blogging to bring you an update on doctors in Vienna. After both the kids and Chris got sick with what appears to be varying degrees of strep infections among all 3, we called a doctor’s office in...

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