What's minus two with you?

It snowed half the day today in Vienna and it was awesome! We woke to snow and the big fluffy flakes just kept falling.  I could have sat inside and watched it all day.  Once we got ready - everyone is finally wearing close to the amount of layers I am - we headed out.  The kids played in the snow every chance they got, throwing snowballs and kicking up the powder.  We saw many beautiful sights, all slightly blurred from the misty, falling snow.  Vienna is a beautiful city.  We braved the icy snow and wind for a few hours then had to stop for lunch, more for the heat and to sit down than for food.  We went to yet another church and then Kamahl and Tanner went back to the accommodation (and I stayed out in the cold - yes, me!).  Us girls went to a very pretty park and Teliah threw snowballs at us as she was the only one with proper snow gloves, and made a snowman.  We found an outdoor ice skating rink for the Godfreys and went to an amusement park of sorts.  We went on the swinging chairs and froze our faces - literally!!  Afterwards we went to a Viennese concert cafe (fancy cafe with live music) and had a hot chocolate and cakes (and then got red faces from the heat - they packed people in).  We headed home, trooping through what had to be minus 3.  The snow was pretty cool and fun but I certainly am happy to experience it as a tourist and not have it for months every year.  You have to admire the Europeans for how well they do (so many people walk around without beanies or gloves) - I love their heated train seats especially.
Tomorrow is Schloss Schonbrunn (one of the three palaces in Vienna - the prettiest apparently so that is the one we chose as we only have two full days here).  Then ice skating and maybe a few more sights that we can squeeze in.  It is going to be minus three so we will be popping up out of the train stations to take photos then head underground to train it to the next destination.  It will be our last day together for a week and a half and I will miss the Godfreys greatly.  Not just to see what they will eat in the next town (Haylee wishes me to say that she is apart from the try all food and spend money philosophy I have been blogging about) but for the company and their navigating skills and sharing the memories.  I do love watching the kids watch kids shows in German and picking up some of the words and practically all the meaning.  They have been real troopers, carrying their own suitcase on and off trains and kilometres to different accommodation, going to church after pretty building after monument, and so many other things.  We throw them an occasional playground or kid activity to keep them happy.  Mum and I are off to Budapest for 8 days and will enjoy not having to navigate in a new city every few days.  I imagine we will pick one or two sights to do per day and relax the rest of the time, rather than trying to pack everything in to each day and coming home with very sore feet.
If I miss you - Happy New Year.  I hope 2015 is wonderful!
It will be minus ten as the low on New Year's Eve so mum and I may welcome in the new year in our pajamas with a Baileys in hand - inside!
Thanks for reading.