Pictures from the trip

Chris and Flat Stanley at the Mozart Cafe in Vienna, Austria.  Stanley says hi to Hanna and Cole!

This is the new Hyatt and conference center in downtown EK. They’re trying to turn this part of the riverside into a new business city. Conferences are already big business here and hopes are that the Hyatt will draw more still.

Rachel astride the line dividing Europe and Asia. The Ural Mountains is where the two continents meet, and EK is just a few kilometers to the east of the line.

The cathedral built over the location where Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed during the Bolshevik Revolution.