On Monday and Tuesday this week, we hit up the fine city of Vienna (Wien) in Eastern Austria. We packed up and left Linz around 10AM. We got to the train station about 15 minutes before the train was set to leave. We didn’t check ahead, so it was good timing. We made it up […]
Decided to play around a bit this evening. Not too bad really. Of course I find out about the camera’s manual focus setting AFTER I do it! I tell ya. This thing is giving my DSLR a run for its money…
Apparently we brought more than we thought. It’s been snowing a lot here, much more than a normal winter according to the locals. I guess Minnesota followed us. I don’t remember packing that… This was Wednesday. Since it was snowing, we decided to go out and play a bit. We wanted to make a snow […]
Well, this was an interesting afternoon. We put together a couple of packages destined for family back home. It was just a couple of boxes of candy and whatnot. Just a little “Hi there!” from Austria. Today was the big day where we actually shipped them. We went down to the local Mail Boxes Etc. […]
Sunday was our big Thanksgiving day! We went down to another person’s dorm. We got a little lost on the way down there, but we found it. We were supposed to eat at 4, so we got there at about 3 with our 12 pounds of potatoes. We peeled them (since no one is picky […]
New cheese people! This week’s cheese is Butterkäse. Literally, “butter cheese”. It sounds disgusting, but it’s not! The texture is extremely rubbery, but it’s not chewy. It’s kind of strange. It pulls apart like it’s rubber, but it’s just springy when you eat it. It’s kind of similar to that disgusting smoke cheese we had […]
A couple other things we’ve noticed: there is no such thing as a right turn on red here. Not really important, especially since we don’t drive, but interesting to see. The other thing we’ve been noticing is much more interesting. Kids here are, pardon the pun, not treated with kid gloves. Quite the opposite in […]
During our normal dinnering in the kitchen, Mary Jo noticed that the snow was starting to accumulate on the soccer field behind the building. It’s just melting off on the streets and sidewalks, but grass and cars appear to be allowing it to stick around. Also, it’s night here now. Sorry for the dark picture. […]
Two things to note. First, people use elevators weird here. On more than one occasion we’ve had someone get on the elevator to go up or down one floor. Really? Just… really? I guess it’s just something that’s done here. Or we live with jerks. Either way, it’s weird. Second, and this is the important […]
Here’s a commercial we see on TV a lot. The beginning got a little chopped off. The cat just says “Mmmmm, dinner party.” Any questions about what’s being said can be directed to Mary Jo. 🙂