{"id":385,"date":"2010-11-20T13:20:57","date_gmt":"2010-11-20T18:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=385"},"modified":"2010-11-20T14:20:20","modified_gmt":"2010-11-20T19:20:20","slug":"christmas-market","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/?p=385","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Market"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we went to a playground to take some pictures and video.\u00a0 They will be up soon.\u00a0 We also went to the Christmas Market that opened today.\u00a0 There were tons of little crafty christmasy things, nativity scenes, and Gl\u00fchwein.\u00a0 Gl\u00fchwein is a sort of hot, spiced, red wine.\u00a0 Will liked it, and he doesn&#8217;t really like wine.\u00a0 It warms you right up.\u00a0 We also had Leberk\u00e4se on a bun.\u00a0 Literally translated, it means &#8220;liver cheese,&#8221; but there is no liver nor cheese involved.\u00a0 I believe it is a mixture of beef and pork formed into a loaf and then baked.\u00a0 I would say it has the texture of bologna, but it&#8217;s served hot and it&#8217;s much tastier.<\/p>\n<p>We went to the Christmas market during the day.\u00a0 Each of the booths has lights on the roof, so I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;s much prettier at night.\u00a0 There&#8217;s a big tree with lights, too. We&#8217;ll be sure to get some pictures of the market between now and Christmas.<\/p>\n<p>Also, no sign of snow yet in Linz.<\/p>\n<p><em>Edit!<\/em><br \/>\nWill here.  Yeah, mixing posts.  Weird huh?  Anyway, here&#8217;s the pics and video Mary Jo was talking about.<\/p>\n<p>On the way to the park we saw this thing:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0437.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0437_small.JPG\" alt=\"Rhino\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You guess is as good as ours.<\/p>\n<p>The park itself is pretty cute.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0438.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0438_small.JPG\" alt=\"Park\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One of the little play things looks like a sinking ship.  I&#8217;m not sure why, but I really like it.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0440.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0440_small.JPG\" alt=\"Ship\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a little hole on the side you can crawl in to get inside the ship.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0443.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0443_small.JPG\" alt=\"Hole\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo doesn&#8217;t fit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0442.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0442_small.JPG\" alt=\"No Fit\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s another part of the park with more stuff.  Here there&#8217;s another ship, but this one is Viking themed.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0447.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0447_small.JPG\" alt=\"Viking\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This ship has little stations you can play at, like the telescope.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0448.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0448_small.JPG\" alt=\"Telescope\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s a second section here too that sports little play houses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0453.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0453_small.JPG\" alt=\"Houses\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mary Jo can fit in this one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0451.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0451_small.JPG\" alt=\"MJ\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Back to the Viking ship.  It also has a bucket on a chain and pulley you can play with.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0455.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0455_small.JPG\" alt=\"Pully\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>You pull sand up to the boat with the bucket and pulley, then pour it back down in a little tube on the other side of the boat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0457.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0457_small.JPG\" alt=\"Tube\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like most boats of the day, it also has an intership communication system.  You talk in one end:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0459.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0459_small.JPG\" alt=\"Speaker\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>And listen at the other.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0460.JPG\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/willz.org\/hosted\/blog\/austria\/parks2\/IMG_0460_small.JPG\" alt=\"Other\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The real attraction at the park is the zip line.  Yeah, they have a real zip line there.  It is really, really, <strong>really<\/strong> fun!  Here&#8217;s Joni on it:<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/P-5D4rYVygo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube-nocookie.com\/v\/P-5D4rYVygo?fs=1&amp;hl=en_US&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>There are a couple other photos, but I think Mary Jo wants to tell you about them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today, we went to a playground to take some pictures and video.\u00a0 They will be up soon.\u00a0 We also went to the Christmas Market that opened today.\u00a0 There were tons of little crafty christmasy things, nativity scenes, and Gl\u00fchwein.\u00a0 Gl\u00fchwein is a sort of hot, spiced, red wine.\u00a0 Will liked it, and he doesn&#8217;t really [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=385"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":388,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385\/revisions\/388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryjoandwill.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}