Friday, December 28, 2007

Random Photos 2

My friend Bonnie's puppy Fenway
Huge Gingerbread House
Christmas Tree at KaDeWe
I live next to the Freie Universitat
THE MOE CAT!!!!!!!
The Belvedere
Beautiful Christmas Streets in Berlin
Christy eating a fresh donut filled with Choclate
in love at dinner
Christy in front of the Embassy in Vienna

Random Photos from my phone

Didn't know Heinz made an Exotic sauce....and spelled it wrong too
Kolachi
That piggy didn't make it home
They sell mystery pig parts in a jar.....ewwww
Old School Heinz cans
WOW 3 chicken Kebabs for 9.90 Euro
Chestnuts are everywhere
Choclate!!!!!
Sugar coated doughballs........mmmmmm
Gigantic pans of fried greens....

Wednesday, December 26, 2007

Merry Christmas

The Moe Cat Lounging on Christmas
Christy with the Green Beans
Our Christmas Dinner...with ham, au gratin potatoes and green beans
Christy made a homemade Rhubarb pie
The Moe cat playing in Christy's Coach bag box
There are dogs everywhere on our Christmas Day Walk
Me at the Moose Lodge
More of the Moose Lodge
The Lake by our place

Monday, December 24, 2007

Christmas Eve Dinner

Grandma Machak's cookies on Katie's cookie tray!!!!!
My Christmas Table
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I MADE A CHRISTMAS GOOSE
We ate goose and it was delicious!!!!! ps... look how cute I am....

Christmas decorations

kitchen table with our mini Christmas tree in the background, and our new cookie stand from Katie (thank you!)
since we don't have a fire place our stockings are hanging from the china cabinet--yes, the Moe cat has his own stocking :-)--also thanks for all of the great Christmas cards!

our Washington Nationals vase with the Christmas bulbs
our Christmas lights--they don't photograph well, but we like them!
our Christmsas tree
bark reindeer that we found at one of the Christmas markets inVienna (and our snowflake lights in the window)
our advent calendar--all opened except for the 24th (thanks, Mom and Dad!)
Christmas tree at Ka De We, a huge famous department store downtown

Tuesday, December 18, 2007

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