Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts
Showing posts with label travels. Show all posts

Jan 19, 2012

Vienna International - Calgary International

Our flight home. Home, home -- to Calgary, Alberta. Home has been a bit of a fluid concept for us lately. Depending on the situation and conversation, home has come to mean:
a) Calgary, Alberta, Canada
b) 17 Syringasse 17/19 Wien (our apartment in Vienna)
c) whatever hotel room we happen to be staying in on our mini vacations
This is the day we actually came home. Canada is home!
Leaving the house just before 7:00 am. All of our stuff, and the help of our good friend Spencer.
Something Viennese people are very proud of, and we finally learned how to pronounce it.
Eric playing with the camera, and Katherine eating our very favourite yogurt from Vienna. Fun times in the airport!
We won't be exiting to Vienna again for a very long time.
Take off from Vienna International at 10:55am Vienna time.
Somewhere along the way we watched the sun set and rise (or rise twice, I'm not really sure) in a matter of just a couple of hours. It was beautiful.
We flew up and over Canada, through the arctic. It was really cool. I've never done that before. It was also beautiful.
I've never had to fill out customs papers before. Eric did them for us so that we didn't get stopped or arrested or anything crazy!
This thing entertained us the entire time we were in the air from Frankfurt, Germany to Calgary, Canada. We watched 4 movies, one of which I would only kind of recommend. If you're bored and looking to pass the time with a cute but not quite epic movie watch Larry Crowne. It was kind of fun. Do not under any circumstance watch: Contagion, Planet of the Apes, or The Debt. Dumb!
Landed at Calgary International Airport at 3:45pm our time -- after 13 hours of traveling.



Dec 20, 2011

Antoni Gaudi

We got home late tonight and I honestly can't decide what pictures to post for today. You will just have to wait. It might take up a post or two, I haven't decided yet.
Hope the advent keeps you entertained enough for tonight. 
Christmas : 5 days away
Home Time : exactly 2 weeks from today!
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Today I mentioned to Eric that yesterday we enjoyed a day of nature. We saw the beach, the water, the palm trees and a beautiful market. We ate wonderful fruit and drank great fruit juice creations. Then, today was a man-made day; and as Eric pointed out, "a man-made, inspired by nature." Which is true. Here is a little sample from Antoni Gaudi, an architect who largely influenced Barcelona's modernistic and artistic advances in architecture. They really are some of the coolest we've seen, and we learned today that he took much of his inspiration for his small details from nature. From the animals, plants and natural laws that surrounded him. These are a few of his greatest and most popular works.