To get ready for Christmas we made ginger bread houses with graham crackers, smuggled for us from the UN commissary. Daddy helped Elora make a fancy house with a big roof, which involved measuring angles and cutting various...
Tag - Holiday
We got a great last minute deal on a rental car, so we decided to take a quick tour to the “real” Christkindlesmarkt in the Bavarian region of Germany. Salzburg, in Austria, is practically part of Bavaria, and on the...
One other really neat feature of the Christmas markets here is that there are some neat activities for kids! Elora is finally old enough to participate in some of the neat activities, so a couple times last week I met up...
We have tried to spend a lot of time going to Christmas markets this year, since it is supposed to be our last Vienna Christmas (sigh…) So here are some pics from various markets we have gone to in the past couple...
Since we have been traveling we are a little behind on our posting! Just after Thanksgiving we started decorating for Christmas. We pulled out our tiny fake tree and our beautiful ornaments and had fun as a family decorating. ...
Fröhliche Halloween aus Wien! Happy Halloween from Vienna! If you missed our previous Halloween 09 post, here is where we explain the kids homemade Halloween costumes. Austrians don’t celebrate Halloween or go...
I promised there would be more Karen-Birthday Party posts, it just took awhile for the party to take place. Yesterday, we finally had the party of the century (or at least the year). Our friends Om and Sarita came over to...
We were invited to a Halloween Party for kids at the American International School in Vienna, which added some sewing stress since I thought I had until the 31st to finish the kids’ costumes. With the trip to Medieval...
We got together with some American friends for the 4th of July andwent to TGI Fridays in Vienna to celebrate America’s birthday Americanstyle. Unfortunately the waiters refused to sing “Happy BirthdayAmerica”...
Happy Easter! The Schonbrunn Palace gardens are alive with beautiful blossoming trees. So we took the kids out for some pictures. More photos later, but here is a taste. Now it’s on to Ostern!Vienna comes alive at Christmas...