The Musical Instrument Museum! The Hofberg Imperial palace houses a large collection of antique music instruments. Its one of the museums our membership gets us into.Here is Elora checking out a gold trimmed piano that Mozart...
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We have a free access to several museums in Vienna thanks to our Kunsthistorische Museum membership. The national art history museum is so large that you can’t really see it all in a week. So we just go and visit a section...
There was a little St. Patrick’s Day celebration in Vienna last Saturday, so Elora wore her St. Patrick’s Day socks, and I put on my green scarf and took the kids to check it out. There was a little parade to kick...
We took Elora to the Schmetterlinghaus (Butterfly House), a greenhouse filled with butterflies behind the Hofburg Imperial Palace. The Vienna royalty must have had a fondness for animals, as the palace Schoenbrunn has the...
There is a ski hill on the outskirts of Vienna, and even though welive on the outskirts of Vienna, it’s still about an hour from us bypublic transport… But we have gone a couple times to try out our new skis, and to...
As it has been snowing so much we went outside during one of Ollie’s naps to play in the yard for a few minutes. (don’t worry Grandparents we checked on Ollie a few times) Elora always wants to build a snowman even...
It has snowed pretty much every day for two three weeks. So we took Elora out for some sledding on the Rote Berge (the big hilly park near our house). Elora really liked sledding and kept singing “Casey Jr coming down the...
So we’re finally legal residents of Vienna. Here’s what it took to get here. The process was very lengthy, but if you want to get a glimpse of the bureaucracy, take a look. I’m curious if the US is worse...
It was a cold, blustery day filled with hufflumps and woozzles, so we decided to head to the zoo. On the way there we saw a team of no less than 3 grounds workers cutting down an old tree outside of the zoo.The more educated...
There was a Van Gogh exhibit here that I really wanted to go to, but I kept forgetting until the last day… so off we went to the Albertina to see it and there was a huge crowd. It was awesome though, because they have to...