There are about 80 dinosaurs roaming East Styria:
Month: November 2012
To make sure Leilani knew that there was culture outside of Paris we went to Vienna. In the morning we visited the Spanish Riding School, the “Spanische Hofreitschule” with the very famous Lipizaner-horses.
It is housed in a beautiful building. (Weather courtesy of Photoshop)
No Oma, that way…
My mom asked him if we could take his photo with Leilani. He answered that it was the thousandth photo today and he was very bored. In the meantime, Leilani sneaked up…
Well, I have photoshopped a lot more than 1000 photos, and I am bored too. It would take an hour to do that one right… it was forbidden to photograph in the Spanische Hofreitschule, so I took very few photos in bad light, none of them worth posting by itself.
Afterwards we started walking towards the Stefansdom the St. Stephen’s Cathedral… at least in the general direction. We found many beautiful buildings along the way, but I don’t really remember what most of them are.
Zoom… zoom… here the sky looks almost real?
Same roof. Leilani commented on the statue on the left (after Andy pointed it out): Oops. Ouweee, crash, boom, bang, Ouweee…
Notice how these ladies are so much better dressed than their sisters in the Louvre
We had a really good lunch and (at least I) ate too much.
It was cold and grey and the photos did not turn out great. Yes I know the ones with the photoshopped sky don’t look that much better.
We walked towards the opera house
And photographed it from every angle. At least Sonja did…
This is the Karlskirche
We got lost for a while, but then asked for directions and got to the Kärntner Straße and Leilani got to blow big bubbles
The former Hotel Meissl & Schadn, with a mosaic made by Eduard Veith
More pretty houses
The Pestsaeule (plague column) is located on Graben.
We found and visited the Stefansdom. I took so many photos that I decided to make it it’s own post. After the Stefansdom it was late already, and Leilani was tired. We took turns schlepping her.
Freyung
We drove all the way to Schönbrunn Palace and visited the Wagenburg, a museum of carriages and vehicles.
Proof that I was along… (actually, there are more Vienna photos of me coming in another post, as Leilani got a hold of my camera…)
One of the main attractions in Vienna is the Stefansdom the St. Stephen’s Cathedral.
I really like this photo, although it’s just a snapshot… That yellow M, the international symbol of bad food and clean restrooms is very present, not only in Vienna, but all over Austria.
They were renovating large portions of the cathedral
I tried 3 times to take this photo (without Leilani)
It’s so sweet to watch Leilani light a candle. I asked why, and she said she lit it for Jojo.
The gothic pulpit is carved from stone. It is mind boggling how this can be done.
Wiener Neustädter Altar
Leilani and Oma walking up to the Leopoldsaltar.
Leopoldsaltar
Grave of Kaiser Friedrich III.
Whenever I don’t like my camera anymore I look at some of it’s abilities. Zoom into the previous photo.
And more zoom.
Oma and Leilani love the Dragon game
My cousin Andreas
Street of the Solar Energy
My mom’s pets are really funny:
Emmie cam in from the yard, proudly carrying half a walnut, Lara was really happy with this treat and ate it
What’s that, on the roof
(zoom, zoom…)
Leilani ran out to take this photo
Nom Nom Nom
This basket has an old carpet as blanket, supposedly to lie on, but a really nice hiding place for attacks on unsuspecting kids and dogs
I talked to my mom today, and she said Emmie had gone looking for us (actually for Leilani) all over the house…
That was not a beauty treatment in the classic sense… but crying too much puffs up a 6 year old’s eye-skin too. And cucumbers help…
Leilani took a bath, and Kia usually sleeps in the bathtub, she could not believe that her bed got flooded and the noisy one played in the water…
Last time mushroom hunting a few days before we had to leave
