At the Schoenbrunn Palace (summer residence) of the Hapsburgs. They had 16 children including Marie Antoinette.They have a kids museum with hand-on exibits--dress-up, setting the royal table, learning the language of fan-holding, leech medicine, etc.
royal kids chamber with toys
Outside of the palace with a Christmas market in front of itAnother Chrismas Market
Mia loved riding on the subway-here she is waving to all the people still on the platform.
Grave marker for Franz Schubert
Grave marker for Brahams
Grave marker for Johann Strauss
Grave marker for Beethoven
Vienna by night.
On the carraige ride--could there be anything more fun than horses?
The Musical Instrument museum. These were some of our favorites. It is hard to take pictures in the museums because they don't let you use flash.
How do you make a guitar? Why, you grow one of course!
The Arms and Armour museum--KIDS (and Craig and I) loved this one!!
for children. . .
love the hat. . .
every shape and size. . . .
Schatskammer- home of the royal jewels from the holy roman empire. 
This is part of the Hofburg palace. The empirial residence of the Hapburg family. Also home of the Lippinzanner stallians. Unfortunately you couldn't take pictures at the stallians performance. The man in gold in front is a street performer dressed as a mozart statue. He was rather amusing. 
The Beethoven museum had this wax statue that at first freaked out the kids, until they decided to ham it up for the camera.
shaking Beethoven's hand
Original work by Beethoven
Piano he played on. This museum was at a house he lived in while in Baden trying to find a solution for his deafness.
The line of horse carraiges. Tourists!!
Another view of the Hofburg Palace and Mozartplatz.
Town Hall. 
Some weird statue--I can't remember but this one might be the ode to plague victims.
This is the dragon boat in the SEEGROTTE. An underground lake. Actually it was a mine shaft that flooded but it is cool nonetheless. This boat was left here by the movie makers from The 3 Musketeers who used it in the film and then couldn't be bothered to take it out. We took a boat tour but ours was a flatbottomed boat with an electric motor. Part of this mine system was used to build the first Jet airplanes for WWII. They would build the fuselage and then take it to the surface. Though bombed it was never damaged. There is also a place they used for prison scenes in The Scarlet Pimpernel, a movie about the french revolution. 
This is Mia with her teacher Ms. Jodi (from Australia) sadly she moved back to the states 2 days after the recital. We sure do miss Ballet!
