Opening Day!
I Scream!
You scream!
We all scream!
For ice cream!
Friday was opening day of ice cream season here in Vienna. My favorite season! To celebrate, our local ice cream shop gave away free cones (with two scoops!) from 12:00-2:00. I went with the fifth grade class to take advantage of this gift. 🙂 While we were there, we ran into the entire middle school who had the same idea! What a great way to end the week.
You can see a few more pictures here: Opening Day
Schnee!
More pics here: Schnee!
Samstag auf dem Apfel-Hof
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On Saturday we went to an apple farm on the outskirts of Vienna called Apfel-Hof Grundschober. This apple farm has been in the Grundschober family for 500 years! Since I’m actually allergic to apples, I had just planned on a fun day with friends taking pictures on the farm. It turned out to be so much better than that! We got to pick potatoes fresh from the ground and eat them for lunch. We got to pick walnuts from the surrounding trees. We got to pick apples AND pears. Yum! Just before lunch, Herr Grundschober made fresh pressed apple cider for everyone. Best of all, at the end we got to pick our own pumpkins! All of this for only 7 Euro each. Last year we paid 8 Euro for just one pumpkin, so I’d say this is a much better deal.
You can see lots more pictures here: Apfel-Hof
What We Do Here
Well, we’ve been back in Austria for nine days. I think we might actually be over the jet-lag. Whew! While we were in the States we had such a great time with family and friends. We got to meet with a few groups and share more about our ministry here in Vienna. One of the things we were able to share was the video below. It’s kind of a quick overview of what we do here. We hope you enjoy it!