Saturday, January 20, 2018

Vienna, Mara Style....


Clare was able to take a walking tour of Krakow with the local Cisco team. 


Krakow's Town Square


The town clock

Clare and the local Cisco team.

Inside one of Krakow's oldest churches.







Exploring Krakow's famous Salt Mine, where you walk down 64 flights of stairs into 100m into the earth!



Each area was sealed off.






Everything was virtually made out of Salt!


The grand ballroom


Even the floors were made out of salt


Facades carved out of salt

Next off to Vienna for our Fall vacation.  First lunch at Steinrich. Here their specialty fish cooked in beeswax!


It cooked right in front of our very eyes!

Amazing little treats to eat, with individualized cards describing the delicacies


Supergirl, our new foodie! She was wonderful at all of the fancy restaurants, as long as she could drink her beloved apricot juice!


The dessert tray

Vienna is known for its honey


Mom and Mara (Supergirl) at the Vinna opera, where we saw La Boheme.  She loved the entire performance and was better behaved than many of the other attendees!



The happy family enjoying beautiful music together!




We took a tour of the surrounding wine country of Vienna.



The Danube

Wine tasting in a little town outside of Vienna



Our little trooper


Famous bakery

Exploring Vienna while visiting museums. 


One of Vienna's most recent edition of a modern museum


At the entrance of the Leopold museum, now Clare's most favorite museum ever.  She was inspired by not only her long-time favorite Gustav Klimt, but was also pleased to discover Klimt's muse and inspiration, Egon Scheile. 

Taking a break before entering themuseum

One of Klimt's lesser known works






Spooky, but moving?!

Another Klimt work, oddly reminiscent of Monet?




The museum was filled with works that simply took our breath away.



Some of Scheile's more famous work.





Mara playing with her Mom's phone at Vienna's most famous fabric shop.  Clare was in heaven!



Princess Elena at Trace's Fall Festival.


Amidst the pumpkin patch