Another Milestone

Well, we've reached another milestone in Vienna. All three of us are sick at the same time. Jake started in Sunday night with a cold/allergies and now Abby and I both have some sort of stomach bug. Jake went to German class today, but Abby and I stayed home and watched movies all day. Looks like we will do the same tomorrow. Enjoy your day!!!

Email Problems

I just wanted to post a note about our Vienna Team website and email addresses. If you have sent an email or tried to log onto the website recently, you've seen the problem. Feel free to leave a comment and I can send you an alternate email.

A Few Photos of Recent Happenings

Abby got a cute little bake set for Christmas and we finally got around to making one of the recipes in the book with it. It was a fun Mommy and Abby day!!!



We had lunch on Sunday with our friends and new fellow Wiener transplants, Bart, Tamika and Izabella. The girls had so much fun playing together. Don't ask me what is going on with Abby's bow.



In other news, I finally had some success in making dinner rolls. I fancy myself a decent cook, but somehow homemade bread (not in a machine) and rolls have always been beyond me. Well, thanks to this recipe I may have finally done it.

Home Again

We're back home in Vienna, again. We made it in last night, everyone tired, but not too worse for the wear. The trip was obviously very short so we didn't really have time to see Zagreb, oh well, maybe next time. Below is the one picture we took of the trip. It is Abby and I in front of the hotel where we stayed. You gotta love the internet for finding great deals.

Far from home

Greetings from Zagreb, Croatia. Yep, you're on the right blog, the Haskews just had to take an unexpected road trip today. Today, we went down to apply for our residency permits and were told that we needed to leave the country. Not to worry, this is not a permanent change of address, we're headed back to Vienna tomorrow. So why Croatia? Well, it is sort of a long bureaucratic story. But in brief, we are required to leave the country every 90 days. And, yes, we did do that back in November when we went to Germany, but this didn't qualify. There is some sort of agreement between several countries in Europe that allows you to travel between those countries without going through any kind of border patrol. On 29 December several new countries joined this agreement and now the closest places we can travel to are Switzerland, the UK and Croatia. Well, Croatia was actually the closest and cheapest on such short notice. So, here we are. I must say I never thought I would go to Croatia. In fact, my knowledge of the place basically consists of 2 things 1) there was a war here in very recent history and 2) Dr. Kovach on ER is from here. I know you're embarrassed for me and my lack of knowledge. Oh well, I've gotten over it, I'm sure you will too. Please pray for our safe return to Vienna and that the visa process will continue with no major hitches. We did manage to file our papers today and we only have to fax in a copy of the passport stamp we got today. Love to all.

Out and About

Today, we decided to see what was going on in the world beyond our door and went to Burger King. Let me say here that in the US we never went to BK to eat, but given our very limited family friendly choices here in Vienna, it has become one of our regular stops. There is a small play area with a slide, which Abby loves, and this gives Jake and me a chance to have an actual conversation. It was nice to get out of the house for a bit and to walk around the mall where this particular BK is located. So here a couple of pics of our day.


Abby in hew new coat from Santa aka Nana.


Jake and Abby taking a "ride". This stupid car took my euro. At today's exchange rate that is $1.46.