Hey everyone, this is Lucas! My mom and dad put these pictures up for you all to see more of what we have been doing in Austria. I hope you find them interesting.
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This is the plane we took from Boston to Switzerland. We flew overnight over the Atlantic Ocean and landed the next morning in Switzerland.
This is my brother Ben and me, after the first flight, waiting for the second one to Vienna. We were SO TIRED!
This is us after a nap, feeling much better!
This is the view from the apartment where Mozart lived. He was a great composer. He wrote a very famous opera here, called The Marriage of Figaro.
Ben and me at the Mozart House. I am listening to some of his music on the guide they give you for when you walk around the museum. It was cool. We saw parts of his opera, The Magic Flute. Some of it is very funny!
This is where we live. We live on the 5th floor.
We went to a Hunters Festival in the mountians. I got to shoot a little crossbow. I hit the bullseye!
Me and the crossbow guy.
This is the fortress castle in Salzburg. It's like a big, walled city up there.
We went into an ice cave inside a mountain called Dachstein. There is a glacier on top of the ice cave. A glacier is a river of ice!
This is the view from the opening to the cave.
This is a very old town called Halstatt. It is the home to one of the oldest civilizations in Europe. They found people frozen in the ice from almost 10,00 years ago.
Hallstatt. At the bottom of the picture you can see a swan! He lives on the lake.
Halstatt.
Halstatt. A house from the year 1569. It has a pear tree growing into it.
Vienna was the home of great composers. This plaque says that this was the house that Ludwig Van Beethoven died in, in 1827.
Ben and I up in the castle in Salzburg.
More of the castle.
Me playing on cannonballs. They aren't loaded!
Mom, Ben and I on top of mountain called Feuerkogel. Ben got head butted by a cow he tried to pet on the way down the mountain. It was really funny!
The whole family.
Me in front of the Natural History museum.
The Mozart Memorial. I'm pretending to play the piano that is part of the statue!
The Beethoven Memorial. He looks mad in every statue!
Inside the Natural History Museum. DINOSAUERS!
At a concert.
On the street where Mozart lived, from 1781-1785. It still looks the same.
The back of the Stephansdom. Stephansdon means Stephan's Cathedral.
A view of the St. Michael's Church
A french fry machine! We didn't try them.
The Abbey (that's where monks lived) in Melk. Melk is about an hour from Vienna on the train.
The inside courtyard of the Melk Abbey.
The library. It was huge like Hogwarts! I don't know how they got to the books on the top shelf!
See what I mean?
The main church of the Abbey.
A view of the roof of the church. It is built in the Baroque style. Very fancy with lots of ornamentation.
The Abbey as seen from the Danube river.
This are what some apartment buildings look like in Vienna. This was built in the 1890's.
Another view of the building.
Us, waiting to see the Lippizaner horses of the Spanish Riding school. They were beautiful.
This is another apartment house in Vienna. It was built by a famous artist named Friedrich Hundertwasser. It looks like a fairy tale.
Another view.
The inside of the Stephansdom. It is really, really big. The catacombs, where all the bones are stacked in rooms, are underneath.
A gargoyle. Don't stand under it when it rains. The rainwater comes down through its mouth!
My dad, my Aunt Dana, my brother and I at Schonbrünn, the summer palace of the Austrian Kaisers.
Cool statues.
Golden turtles.
A view of the whole palace and the grounds,
Me at one of the many fountains and sculptures.
This is the Glorietta, and is way up a hill from the palace.
This is the palace, looking down from the Glorietta.
Another view.
That is the Imperial Box, where the Kaiser sat when he came to watch the horses.
One of the Lippizaner horses. They were so pretty.
Another picture of the horse.
My favorite place in Vienna. Der Mann! A great place to eat...
Topfenbällchen! That means "little custard doughnuts", in German. I love them!
Me in front of one of the many Art Museums. These buildings are really big!!
The Butterfly House. You can walk inside with the butterflies. If you stand still, sometimes they land on you.
A viennese police car.
A model of the Stephansdom.
The tower. I climbed up it! 372 steps. Whew!! A that's not the whole way up to the top!
The side of the Stephansdom.
Me in front of the Mozart house. Thanks for looking at my pictures. Bye!
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