Rachel's visit

Our dear friend from Florida came to Switzerland for a wedding and made a quick detour in Vienna to visit us.  It was SO, SO lovely to spend quality time with such a dear friend.  Our oldest three and her three kids are similar ages - which tells you we've logged some hours together... not to mention we stayed with them two summers ago for a week or so.  She introduced us to good friends that live here (Elske & Christian) even before we arrived.  It was so relaxing and refreshing to spend time with her.

Here are some pics from our time together...
(many of these are from Rachel's roll)

Rachel's first sushi

 We did some sightseeing and just walking around downtown.  It was mainly just a treat for me to have my dear friend visit.  One of the highlights was going to the Prater for the evening.  We met our Christian, Elske & their kids.  It was a perfect Spring day for bumper cars and the Riesenrad. 

This was super fun with the kids

Riesenrad

 I opted out of the Riesenrad with some others.  

After that we went to the Schweizerhaus for a meal together.  Perfect place to eat out on a great Spring evening.  Perfect food, perfect company... just... perfect.

Except when it's not perfect.  Baby Christian is super into this screeching thing at meal time.  It's loud & annoying... almost dog like.  So I ended up giving him a bone to chew on in desperation.  The scary thing is that it worked.  Too good.  He chewed that bone all the way home and when Dan took it from him before bedtime - he wailed.  Boys and Dogs... not too dissimilar. 

 Too bad our kids didn't like Rachel :)