Okay, we have been out of town all week, hence the blogging lag. We are now back to posting the rest of my mom’s visit, and then I will still have to back blog all of July. How did this happen? Anyway, we posted some pics...
Tag - Vacation
We stayed for 2 days in the town of Friesach for a medieval festival, which we also went to last year called the Friesach Spectaculum. Our friend who was one of the missionaries here in Vienna came to visit with his Mom. Here you...
We visited the amazing castle of Hochosterwitz last year (pictures of the outside of Hochosterwitz here) and really enjoyed it. Since it was in the neighborhood of Friesach, we decided to let the kids show Grandma around. The...
Last year we went to the Friesach Medieval Festival and the Beach Volleyball tournament. We had so much fun we did it again this year. Here are the kids watching the Brazilian women team beat up on the Americans. We went to a...
The day before we flew back home we went to Windsor Castle. The queen still lives here part of the year. The castle itself is pretty huge, and unfortunately none of the rooms/churches we visited inside the grounds allowed...
On to day two of the London tour! We decided to go to the Tower of London because Elora really really really wanted to see the crown jewels. I am not kidding, she was so excited. First a little story about Elora before we came to...
On this day we spent a lot of time walking all over London. This was the same day we were at the British Museum. Afterwards we went to Buckinham Palace and hung out at St. James Park.Here we are at Buckingham Palace. We...
The British Museum is absolutely huge, and has a really amazing collection of artifacts. I was so excited to go and see it, and Elora was in absolute heaven with so many neat things to look at. The best part were these small...
In London, most of the big museums are free. And the kids love museums, so we were pretty happy about this. Here’s Oliver at the Science Museum (right across the street from the LDS church actually). He was excited about...
Chris had to fly to a paintball tournament in London for some business, so we decided to make a family trip out of it thanks to some budget tickets on an airline called German Wings. Many of the inter-Europe flights still have...