Jan. 6: Today is Sunday, so you know what that means; church!!!!!! Yes, today we woke up really early to have breakfast and go to the Viana boys choir, and church at the same time. After church it was raining so we went to a couple museums. One of the museums was just for artifacts from Ephesus in Turkey. The city of Ephesus was famous for the Temple of Artemis (completed around 550 BC), one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World, and we are going to be in Ephesus in a month. We also went to a museum of armour and one of musical instruments all in other parts of the Hofburg Palace. For dinner I had ribs. Now we are just chilling (in my case sketching). Good Bye and Good Night.

Vienna Boy's Chior

After Mass with Vienna boys Chior

Music museum

Armoury Museum

Ephesus Museum - part of the temple of Artemis

Jan. 5: We just got back from the Magic Flute and Isa is a little pooped so she asked daddy to do the blog. This morning the three of us visited yet another part of the Hofburg palace. This glass wing is used to keep butterflies and small children. Isa wanted to stay until a butterfly landed on her but after a couple hours she gave in to the call of McDonalds. I did not last that long with the butterflies and went off to see some architectural highlights of Vienna (Wagner's Bank and Hunterwaser's museum and apartements). This evening we saw The Magic Flute which Mozart composed here. The story in this opera has love and happiness achieved thru the help of Isis who Isa is studying for her Egyptian history - small world.

Jan. 4: Today we woke up to the best breakfast of bacon it was crispy and thin it was great. Then we went to the horse training at the Hofburg Palace. There were a lot of white horses practicing tricks. Then we went to the Sisi museum in another wing of the palace that was full of fancy stuff in royal rooms. Later mom and dad went to the art history museum then we all went out for traditional wienersnitzle.

Vienna is horse crazy

Royal Lipizzan Stallions

Lipizzan practice at Hofburg Palace

Aldo's napkin envie

Hofburg Palace 

really vegetarian

Vienna Finearts museum

Isis on the left 

Jan. 3:
Today I woke up late and went to a Mc. Donald's. Then mum and dad went to pick up tickets and meet a cat. Then we all went on bus tour of Vienna and stopped at the Schonbrunn Palace. The palace had lots of gold and our guide had some funny stories about the Austrian empire that was run from here. One storey was how Maria Theresia got her nickname "the mother-in-law of Europe" by marrying off her children (she had 16) to other royal families including Marie Antoinet to Louis XVI. Thus she made the Habsburg empire the biggest in Europe not thru war but thru weddings. I also got a cute shirt with two cats and a mouse. Then for dinner we went for sushi. The sushi was so good even dad said he would go again. Now we are reading The Hobbit and knitting till bed. Bye!

Schonbrunn Palace

Palace ball room

Maria Therisia enthroned 

Jan. 2:

Today is another day on the road. We drove from Salzburg to Vienna. We were on the road for three hours and I nearly got car-sick. When we got there we stopped for lunch in our hotel. Then mum and dad went out and saw some cool stuff in the photos bellow. After that we were enjoying our room until dinner. good bye now we are going to watch Brave.

Salzburg to Vienna Austria

Jan. 1, 2013: Welcome back to the Off Leash Travellers 2013 addition, I will be your hostess Isa Perkins and you will be joining me on our journey of Europe. First we started our day off by going to the bridge that we were at the night before to see the damage. It turns out that some cleaners were out and about early in the morning. If you forgot about New Years eve adventures scroll to the bottom of the page were I will recap you (I highly recommend you read it!). Then we took our time in wandering back home. We stopped for lunch in an Italian restaurant, and I had pizza! I enjoyed our lunch and I was full coming home. When we were home we were just around the house and had a face-time with one of my friends pulse the face-time we all had with some of our family. After some time of just have a relaxing session we heeded out of a great dinner. For dinner we went for Chinese food, and ordered so much food. We had all the suff that we would have had in Vancouver. After dinner I did some ballet with mummy, and a science quiz. We are just about to lissen to our new book while knitting ( I am knitting a bunny nugget).
 
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Meat sandwiches. Wish you were here Aldo

Like I said I would recap you about the Adventures of New Years eve.

It was so very crowed, but on the brig there was just plain chaos. Fireworks were going in all directions just above our heads, there were thousands of people setting off fireworks, broken glass and champaign strewn about (it was sort of like a battle field of party).