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Lots of pictures...

Some views of our new apartment; including the walk from our U-Bahn stop to the building.
Our first walk through the inner city of Vienna
BBQ at the Richards family home. They have been at VCS (now ICSV) for 8 years. One of their daughters will be in my AP class this year. We had a great time of fellowship and dinner. Smores for dessert - Austrian style - were great.
Part of being a teacher at ICSV is manual labor.
Enjoying a knockoff Chipotle burrito at a park in inner city. Pretty dang good...and, it was the last day before they were going to close the restaurant for 3 weeks, so we got extra meat and sodas for half price!
BBQ at the Spooner's house. Awesome place on the Alte Danau...unfortunately, it rained the whole day. Still very fun!

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  1. Basnett 4August 9, 2010 at 12:24 PM

    Awesome pictures and enjoyed your play by play of your departure from home, flight, entry, and first several hours. Let me know if you find a good way to upload video...I'm trying several through Picasa but they are taking forever (huge files and slow upload speed) - I found a better way to do the pics on picasa to post to the blog. After you load your pics on Picasa into a new album (folder) you can put a star by each picture you want to upload later - you can caption each picture in Picasa - click upload to web album (make sure you have selected the whole folder) and there will be an option to upload only pictures that have a star - once they upload to your Picasa web album there is a blogger link - if you do it correctly you will see a single picture in your blog and if you click it will open to your picasa web album where you can do a slide show and see the captions - much easier than uploading one at a time via blogger with the 5 at a time limit...let us know when you are on Skype too OK?

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