the biggest news in Vienna now is that Paris Hilton is here for the Opera Ball! haha! She was in the shopping mall today to sign autographs where I used to work at the kindergarten last year! Our kindergarten was upstairs from the mall! Today is the beautiful, famous opera ball at the Staatsoper (State Opera house) and every year the man (Richard Lugner) who owns the shopping mall and who is the richest man in austria invites a hollywood star to come be his date for the ball. Last year was Carmen Electra and one year was pamela anderson...lovely huh? he must like the wild gals! haha! anyways, they might broadcast some of it in the U.S., but I am not sure...but it is so beautiful! You can check out some pictures at... http://www.wiener-staatsoper.at/ click on english, then near where it says wiener opernball it will say "videobeispiel"-click on that and then you can watch a beautiful video and hear the Vienna waltz music! ahhh so elegant!
...this week has been so crazy at school! With Valentine's day, birthdays and tomorrow is our Fasching (carnival) party, everyone is exhausted including the kids...Fasching is really fun and its an even bigger in Germany...everywhere it is decorated with bright colors and people get dressed up in funny costumes all throughout the city...they have parades, shows and tons of parties...I'm going to be a hawaiian hula dancer at school tomorrow for our party! haha!
This weekend a childhood family friend, who now lives in Budapest, Hungary which is only 2 hours away is coming to stay with us for the weekend. Its so funny because we grew up as nextdoor neighbors as children on our great street full of kids and we always had fun neighborhood parties...it was a great neighborhood and you could never find one like that in snobville-potomac where we moved to! well anyway, 18 years later we are neighbors again! I can't believe it! He will be working in Budapest on a 2 year contract! I am so excited to have a piece of home nearby! His name is Demetri and he is dying to meet Christian because he had a part in how Christian and I met too...Demetri was the one who invited me to come tour Prague with him and his friends for a weekend...so I went up to meet them for the weekend and on the train ride home was when I met Christian...he was not able to come to our wedding so this is a really big deal now he gets to meet the guy I met on the crazy train ride home!
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