Beautiful. Beautiful. Beautiful. Snow. Bikes. Vienna. Love it!
Gorgeous Christmas ornaments from the Schonbrunn Palace Christmas market.
More market photos, not sure what I'm going to do when they're over. Don't worry... there are Easter markets.
Bridget and I, again, please notice the lack of hat, scarves and gloves!
While we were out at the Schonbrunn Christmas Market Jess was sitting on this bench, taking a break and when I went to find her, she was sitting there, kind of holding her shoe. I looked at it, and she was like, is this normal? Do you think this is from the chemicals? We had to still make it home and the shoes were looking a bit sketchy... but we did make it home. Eventually.
Damien and I... I knew Damien was coming in on the 24th, but we didn't have a set time/place to meet. So... I knew he was coming in by a train at 3:00, so I went to one of the train stations to just sort of check things, thought I might just run into him?? Ha, but while we were there, Damien called and he was at the other train station. We did eventually meet up with him and ride a bunch of metros till we got home. We enjoyed some wine and snacks while we sat around the house. Angella stopped by and we just had the typical Christmas Eve dinner of crackers, red pepper dip, cherry tomatoes and cheese filled sausage. That's normal, right?!
Jess, Damien, Bridget and I went over to David and Stacy's place for more wine and appetizers. Jess was showing us her Kabuki moves while we waited for the metro.
Damien having some gluhwein and checking out the line up out front of St. Stephen's Cathedral.
Stacy, Bridget and I getting ready to head out for midnight mass after super delicious snacks.
Waiting for midnight mass at St. Stephen's Cathedral.
Jess, Damien, Stacy, Bridget and David waiting outside, listening to the stampede warnings from the random English speaker behind us. Please note: NO hat, gloves or scarves!
Inside the cathedral
Midnight Mass in German, very moving. Well, maybe if we understood it? They did a few things in English, but mostly we just sat, stood and started. It was VERY touristy and really packed. throughout the whole service people were coming and going. When communion for the zillion people in there started, we went ahead and snuck right out. We when we left, the whole group of people that were sitting near us left too. I know, we're total trendsetters...
The walk home was not that fun, I decided I could wear these super high wedge shoes and wander about on cobblestone. Then we saw these random drag racing car things happening. I was pretty sure we were going to be smashed, obviously we weren't and we did make it home.
Now on to Christmas Dinner...
Jess set up the table for our dinner. Very fun and festive.
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Our appetizers and check out my Christmas dishes...!
Damien taking over turkey duty with VERY limited supplies... Who knew you could substitute a wet towel for tin foil. I wasn't worried about that at all...
Check it out! Damien's first turkey.
Salad and bread station...
Sitting down to enjoy our meal.
Look at my new cool trick. Uh, not nearly as exciting as my "challenges" from wine tasting this summer.
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