Vienna, Italy

The guy that drove us to the airport was slightly flying, but we felt very safe.  He was a great driver, and we were on time to check in.  Then all the people catching the flight had to switch gates because... well, I don't know why, but we could've stayed on the beach a little longer, because we ended up getting transported like cattle and waiting a while. Then a few hours later, "Welcome to Vienna"... OK definitely not when we had planned.... But at least we are somewhere closer!  We met some cute families on the flight with adorable little kids.  We've met so many friendly travelers!

Surprise!  It's beautiful here.  We never would've planned a trip to Austria, but since we are here, we definitely plan on coming back.  Our hotel last night was nice for the short time we stayed there.  But the shower had no curtain, only a small glass "wall" that was about 1/5th of the tub's length.... How do you shower with nothing to block the water??Well, you shower then you wipe the floor before you get out so as to save your hiney from falling on wet tile...
Almost everyone is speaking German AND English fluently, so hooray!  I can understand people again!  And we can real ALL the signs and know what they mean!  We walked around downtown and I took a few photos, and I plan on uploading them sometime in the next few days.  Vienna is the CLEANEST city I've ever been to.  And for a Monday night, it was surprisingly alive here.  We Like it!

We spent about 7 hours in the airport today, hoping to catch an extra seat on one of the two flights to the states.  It didn't work, but we are trying again tomorrow.  Keep in mind, people have been waiting to get on the flight since 17April.  So we're not top priority, but we are hoping to fly to DC at 11ish tomorrow.  Fingers crossed!  But we are safe, and we know that God is in control.  I have no idea why there's a 200-years-of-stillness volcano with a long name erupting in Iceland, but I'm not too worried about it because I know there's a reason for everything.  And all things work together for good for those who love the Lord.  So it'll be good, even if it doesn't make sense now.

We are pretty sad that we're not going to see our families tonight; we've been looking forward to it for weeks.  But for tonight we are on the 7th story of the airport hotel, watching the tower.  They "play" huge advertisements on big buildings-- like a projector billboard.  Pretty cool idea.  I've only seen light up pictures on buildings at Christmas.

We have been relaxing all afternoon, letting our dirty clothes dry out. haha.  We need to do laundry-- we're getting down to wearing our cleanest dirty stuff.  Truly "roughin' it" :)  Parker has been a really good sport.  He seems to like people watching, so a crammed full airport is pretty exciting!

Oh, I took a video today, it took 1minute, 37 seconds (approximately) to walk very quickly from the end of the line to the airline counter.  And I was walking fast.  The line went all the way to the end of the terminal.  It was nuts.  We waited about 3 hours (OK Daniel waited, me and P went walking around) just to get on the waiting list.  Then we Stood around the rest of the time waiting to hear "Passenger Wise"... but we never heard it.

If at first you dont succeed, try, try again.  And try to have fun waiting around.

Right now, Parker is playing with a reading light attached to the wall with his Dada.  He's trying to figure it out.  He is so curious now, and his hand-eye coordination is getting better every day.  And in case I've never said it before, i  Love seeing my boys together! 

"Another aeroplane, another sunny place, I'm lucky I know... But I wanna go home"