Vienna

This weekend we took a trip to Vienna to visit some friends we met in language training at FSI. Vienna is a beautiful city with some amazing architecture. It also gets some artic cold, though...

David inside St. Stephan's Dom. The church is beautiful, but difficult to photograph from the outside because it is so tall and we were too close. Reminded us a little bit of the Duomo in Florence, though.
Inside St. Stephan's Dom
Art History Museum--it was closed on Monday, the day we were going to go. But the Christmas market in front was great and we were able to go to the Natural History Museum, housed in a building that is the mirror image of this, across the Platz.
Christy in front of the Natural History Museum. This Museum hasn't changed much since the 1800's---rows and rows of stuffed animals and collections of gems, meteorites, and other rocks. But it was interesting because of that, too.
Mammoth tusks--2 1/2 times as tall as Christy?
guillotine that killed Marie Antoinette (in the Natural History Museum)

Statue in courtyard of the Belvedere
Belvedere
the Rathaus--our friends' apartment was very close to this. Another huge Christmas market.
booth at the Christmas market
dinner at an Italian place with Debbie and Marcos

in front of Schoenbrunn (and another Christmas market)
Haschenmarkt--one of the oldest and most famous markets inVienna
we ate the raviolis on the bottom in the middle
it was so cold even the horses needed hats

backside of the Belvedere