Sunday, 4:15pm. Christina here and we're back from the abyss aka "Evie's virus". It's been a tough few days! Our dearest little one has been a champ, with all things considered- she totally tolerated a high fever and sore throat that has been hanging around more or less for five days now. Finally, two doctor visits later and some Viennese nose drops in her system to help with her sore throat and ears, we're happy to report that her fever has broken for over 24 hours and she's slowly re-emerging as the fun girl she truly is. So today, to start off our Sunday morning, we took her to a butterfly museum! Athena and Nicole opted instead to see the Lippinzer stallions. Probably the smarter move. The schmetterlinghaus yielded only 7 or 8 butterflies and was very small inside. But Evie was still quite excited by it all, so we were too. After our short visit to see the schmetterlings, I left for my workshop at IMPULSTANZ (more on this later) while dad took Evie back to the elephant in front of the Natural History Museum. Her. favorite. thing. ever. We're reunited now...and I start a new series of classes at Impulstanz tomorrow.
The last two nights we have enjoyed dinners with the busy jet setters Nicole and Athena, who have been packing their Vienna site seeing activities to the brim. Evie has loved tilting her sippy cup back, taking in a good, long gulp of her milk or water while we do the same with our beverages (beer, in most cases). Last night we hit a rib joint, the night before was the famous wiener schnitzel at Figlmuller restaurant. Meat is always on the menu, folks. Lots of it. And lots of beer. I wonder how one is ever a vegetarian in this town. Or a non-beer drinker. Fortunately, we're all fond of both.
So more on Impulstanz: this weekend, I've enjoyed a two day writing/improvisation/composition workshop with Sabina Holzer, a Vienna-based artist. I was in a workshop with 9 other folks from all over the world: Paris, Romania, Tokyo, Holland, Egypt, England...and me, representing the United States of America. Wonderful to dance and talk shop with such interesting people. I also felt so fortunate to see a performance at the museum quarter theatre by a company from South Africa. I'm writing a review of that performance this week for "Theatre Journal". So yes, there is some work to do. So for now, signing off, but I'll leave a couple more pictures!
The last two nights we have enjoyed dinners with the busy jet setters Nicole and Athena, who have been packing their Vienna site seeing activities to the brim. Evie has loved tilting her sippy cup back, taking in a good, long gulp of her milk or water while we do the same with our beverages (beer, in most cases). Last night we hit a rib joint, the night before was the famous wiener schnitzel at Figlmuller restaurant. Meat is always on the menu, folks. Lots of it. And lots of beer. I wonder how one is ever a vegetarian in this town. Or a non-beer drinker. Fortunately, we're all fond of both.
So more on Impulstanz: this weekend, I've enjoyed a two day writing/improvisation/composition workshop with Sabina Holzer, a Vienna-based artist. I was in a workshop with 9 other folks from all over the world: Paris, Romania, Tokyo, Holland, Egypt, England...and me, representing the United States of America. Wonderful to dance and talk shop with such interesting people. I also felt so fortunate to see a performance at the museum quarter theatre by a company from South Africa. I'm writing a review of that performance this week for "Theatre Journal". So yes, there is some work to do. So for now, signing off, but I'll leave a couple more pictures!
is that picture of Evie and the elephant the 2nd time she saw it?
ReplyDeleteThey are practically old friends at this point!