The Armory (military history museum) had its annual medieval festival where they shoot off all the cannons and have a great market. We headed over a couple weeks ago to check out the market, and the kids got to wear their knight...
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We got some “free” tickets to the Circus the other day. Two free adult tickets for a Tuesday afternoon. We thought it must be a promotional thing to generate interest for the Circus, because not that many people could...
The day before Easter our church had an Easter Egg Hunt for the kids. Elora was so excited to go look for candy. She is wearing her new favorite outfit from Aunt Sharon. It was the first day warm enough that we would let her wear...
We took Amy and Amanda on a walking tour of Vienna one day. It is the best way to see all of Vienna’s many beautiful sights, because Vienna really is a “small” big city.We started at Karlsplatz, with the...
Even more pictures in our web gallery here Since Prague is one of our favorite, nearby cities, we took Amy and Amanda there before Easter. The Easter Markets in Prague are much cheaper than in Vienna. And Czech people are...
Since the Schonbrunn Palace is close to our apartment it was the first touristy thing we took Amy and Amanda to do. The palace is huge with 1000 rooms and the grounds cover 500 acres. The tour we took only visited about 10 rooms...
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...
Who needs European hot chocolate? We had Swiss Miss! More good views of the Matterhorn. We had clear blue skies for the last few days of skiing. Amy and I were totally sore and only skiied half days, but Chris was a super all...