Will Dig Life

Our final week - we saved many of the highlights for last! Having said that, we feel really ready to return. I'm busy planning what our home routine will look like, what activities we'll be doing and all that; Vienna has been a wonderful summer again, emotional in many ways (losing the house sale first thing, then losing Fred was of course much worse) and hot, hot, hot.  Heat was largely the theme of this week as well. We spent a lot of time in and near the water! Jumping in is their new favourite thing... Utter exhaustion afterwards! Speaking of emotional, we also went to the little suburb I grew up in and visited my parents' and aunt's graves, and had lunch with my uncle (mother's brother). I don't have photos of it but we also met up several times with my aunt (father's side) and I had long, enlightening conversations with her that I'm hoping to turn into their own blog post. My perpectives on the past have shifted. At my aunt's grave. Didn't ...

Mr. has arrived!! Finally. We were so excited to see him, and his journey this time was completely smooth and on time. We picked him up from the train station, had the biggest hugs ever, got him back home, and the kids haven't left his side since! We had great fun the rest of the week. It's so good to be together again. D(6) waiting at the train station for daddy's train to come in However, at the beginning of the week we had a few days to wait before Wednesday. The weather wasn't brilliant, so we went to the museum of public transport Remise , a modern art museum where we got to make our own piece of artwork, and to the brilliant  adventure playground . A real U-Bahn cockpit! U-Bahn driving simulation - D(6) loved that! Adventure Playground Hiding Place LOADS of snails were out because it was wet, so we had a snail race! Creating some modern art... The finished piece... ... some last minute enhancements to one part of it The day after daddy arrived, he had to look aft...