So we’re currently house/pet sitting for some friends. And their house is near a petting zoo, which was holding a small Christmas market, so we decided to go a couple days before Christmas — yes, there’s a huge...
Tag - Vienna
Grampy and Nana successfully arrived at the airport on Christmas Eve morning! We picked them up and headed straight over to the Rathaus so they could see a Christmas market. This one is the biggest in Vienna.Grampy with his first...
Nana and Grampy were supposed to come visit us the week before Christmas, so we had plans to visit a whole bunch of Christmas markets. Sadly, their flight was canceled and they could not get on another one until later in the...
We have had a great time with Grandma visiting the past few weeks. When she was first here we took her to a couple of Christmas markets to show off how great Vienna is in winter as well as summer, and so she could Christmas shop...
Elora found this huge snowball chunk. She called it her ice cream cone and started eating it with Ollie.We brought the little frog tent out with us to have a little shelter from the wind. It made for a nice “base...
Day 2 of the late November snowfall in Vienna! Most of the city didn’t get as much snow as we did. Since we’re on the outskirts, a little higher up we tend to get more snow (and less wind, thankfully). We hiked over...
There is a nice forest near our house that we like to go walking in. In the forest is a beautiful little place called Hermesvilla that has a museum inside that I have been wanting to see, so I looked up the times it was open and...
We had never been to the Palmenhaus before, and our friend Jessica wanted to visit for the first time as well, so we headed off to the Schonbrunn grounds to look inside the huge greenhouse that was enjoyed in times past by...
My zoo pass expired the second week of October, so we headed over for our last visit to the Schonbrunn Zoo. This has been my favorite place to take the kids, and we will miss going. With winter coming and the move back to the US...
Halloween is not really celebrated in Austria, but the American International School always has a little carnival for the kids a few weeks before Halloween. Since the baby is due around Halloween and I figured we won’t be...