Showing posts with label visitor. Show all posts
Showing posts with label visitor. Show all posts

Monday, March 31, 2014

A Visit from Nate's Parents

As promised, here are some photos from our time with Nate's parents. It was a very special visit - their first time to Vienna and meeting their first grandchild! It was hard to see them go, but we had a wonderful time exploring the city and showing them our life here.

Celebrating Ellie's dedication at church.

Exploring the Naschmarkt (outdoor market)

Walking through Prater park on a beautiful day

Enjoying architecture downtown

Apple strudel at Schonbrunn Palace

The Vienna Zoo

I love this picture that Mom took of me reading to Ellie

Riding the Ferris Wheel and getting a bird's eye view of the city

Friday, August 16, 2013

Our First Family Visitor!

Lately, life has just been chugging along. We're wrapping up this month's German class next Friday and we've been spending most of our time outside of class doing homework, meeting with language partners and going to church. Hence the lack of blog posts recently! Not much to report.

However, a welcome interruption to all of this normalcy was our first family visitor - Nate's brother! For the last 7-ish years, Neil has spent time volunteering at English camps sponsored by Josiah Venture in the Czech Republic, and this summer was no different. After two weeks there, he decided to pop down to Vienna for a quick visit before heading back to the States. It was really fun to show him around the city and take him to a few favorite places and authentic restaurants. (Anyone who knows us well knows that food is really important to us, so of course this was a big focus of what we shared with Neil.) Nate also was able to skip a day of class to spend more time with his brother and they visited a few museums in the downtown area.

Thank you, Neil, for coming to visit!

Sadly we didn't take very many photos, but here are just a couple...

Having Vienna's best apple strudel at Cafe Landtmann.

Nate catching Neil in some of his more pensive, thoughtful moments.