Music all around!

One of our favorites of the Christmas season here - a musical display at City Hall. Notice Gramps on the records...:)



In the Hofburg

Some days are just like that...

Our tree, "Wallace"

Our trip home, and back!

Two of our favorite ladies

and the happiest little guy in the world

good times with Aunt Sara

doing Grandma's yard work

and making Great-Grandma's famous broccoli casserole for Thanksgiving - only a small amount landed on the floor, thank you very much.

The adorable Cousin Macy, trying to catch the conversation at the opposite end of the dinner table

Celebrating GaGa's 60th!!

A girl and her dog

With Ava at the Karlsplatz Christmas market

Karlskirche

Kate makes "dinner" in the giant hay pit in front Karlskirche

Kate's guys, at school - she says that dalmation fire dog is the teacher today

The Great Pumpkin Comes to Vienna

The little guys makes his calls while Bertie, ever vigilant, monitors the 2-mile radius around the house that he considers "his territory"

Kate contemplates the news of her 529 plan's weakening value...

We had to, finally, document "the crawl" - it's evolved into the strange little move you see here...it's bound to become the chosen crawl of all future Orloski babies, however, because of it's adaptiveness, as far as allowing for swift mobility with both hands free

The Hills are Alive in SALZBURG!

Around the Old City

The stairs outside the Salzburg Festival House used by the von Trapps to escape (only in the movie, mind you...)


The nicest McDonald's sign I've ever seen - and you know we've been to a few:)

And they give you free stickers and crayons at this one!

On the funicular heading up to the 900-year-old Hohensalzburg Fortress

Kate and Steve, engrossed in the audio tour of the Hohensalzburg

The story of the bull!

In the marionette museum on the fortress grounds

View of the cathedral from the fortress

Kissing angels in the Cathedral

In the Mirabell Palace Gardens
(the "Doh a Dear" sequence from Sound of Music was filmed here, by the way!)

See? I really was there:)

Kate and Daddy enjoy a hot cocoa after Mass in the foyer of our hotel in the Altstadt (Old City)

The lovely dining room in our hotel

Cathedral bells, Sunday morning



And finally, a funny story:

When we arrived at the hotel, Kate sat on the bed for several minutes, appearing to study the map of Salzburg. She started shaking her head in consternation and said:

"Ohhhh no. Ohh no. Ohhhhh no... (giant pause, then her face brightened)... No, no, wait - it's okay. Salzburg IS on this map. It's the little green part right here"