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It was sick week! All three kids caught some virus making them cough uncomfortably, enough for them to be excused from school and kindergarten. We were just at home except on Tuesday when we *visited* the doctor. They were given cough syrup and fever meds and nothing moreโฆI fervently hoped that they would feel better soon especially since forecasts said the weather will be nice!
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Friday afternoon the cough subsided a bit, we were able to get out and walk around the city with Kuya O (in photo with dawty). We visited Mozarthaus, the apartment where world-renowned musician Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart lived. The building has been turned into a museum housing Mozart and his familyโs belongings. Tidbits about Mozart and his students could be read and you can literally follow his footsteps to his own bedroom, kitchen and music room.
Despite the cold, street performers are still there freaking outโฆI mean entertaining locals and tourist. The oneย below is a headless goldman, the kids dared not come near or pose for a photo. ๐ Dawty likes Mozart a lot and has learned some of his piano pieces. Iโve onced featured the Mozarthaus at my other blog, when we visited it during the long nights at the museum. You can view the write-up here. We bought some souvenirs at the shop and met a friendly Japanese student.ย I practiced a bit of my Nihonggoย tinee-nihonggo with her while Kuya O conversed with her in ease being fluent in the language and having lived in Osaka for sometime now.
Kuya O commented that Dr. Jose Rizal (Philippine hero) must have been really impressed about Vienna that he often wrote of his trips here and to other European cities in his memoirs. He now understood what Rizal saw and feltโฆeven if it was more than a hundred years ago. (Rizal visited Vienna in 1887 with his friend, Dr. Maximo Viola.) I wrote about their trail sometime last year for a Feature magazine and published a few paragraphs on my other blog (will have to search first).
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In the middle of our walk, C requested for a stopover to have a drink. So off we go to the nearest joint, bought iced tea and had some free hot milk (lol). He was starting to get grumpy, annoying his siblings by repeating everything they say. Itโs getting on my nerves too. It was a relief that he saw the French macarons on display and insisted heโd buy one, just one. He said heโd buy it using his own money, so I let him. He came back with a lemon macaron and happily munched it with gusto! He was so happy with it that he stopped bugging us afterwardsโฆwhatever the macaron had that calmed him down, Iโm just thankful. This little piece of yummy treat is something I am aiming to learn how to makeโฆsurely, if I can make macarons at home, the house would be a little quieter. Macarons are awesome sweets, C also nodded in agreement.
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freaking headless man in yellowโฆlooks like the sun is shining on your part of the globe too!
Yummy yellow.
Have a fabulous week!
My MYM.
Oh so interesting and cool entry.. happy MYM!
Good to know your kids are doing okey. I think with this weather we easily catch cold. When I started to have cough I rub efficascent or vicks on my foot and put on a socks. That makes me sleep the whole night.
Your macaroons looks really good. I saw a movie about Mozart and he is genius in music! Too bad he died young. But he did had 6 children but 2 son survives but Jose Rizal doesn't have any hehe. That makes me sad for him, lol!
Great post you have here and thanks for the visit! Happy Monday!
MYM
Can I have some?
My Mellow Yellow
I too got the virus. What do you take for cough?
Interesting post. Happy Monday.
my! my little kid suffered from bad coughs few days ago, good thing she gets to her school today. good thing your kids were ok, too.
and, what an interesting place to visit. Great to know that O has interested Rizal's life:)
great yellow shot, have a nice monday, Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.happy MYM
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oh myโฆthat golden man looks scaryโฆ.lol! yum yum yumโฆ:)
thanks for dropping by at my MYMโฆgreat to be here!
Hope your 3 kiddos are feeling better. It's amazing how some little "treat" can take their mind off of what ails them and let them concentrate on something else-at least momentarily. Mickie
I hope your kids are better now, btw visiting here through MYM please visit mine thanks My Daily Mumbles
hope kids are all fine. thanks for visit!
nice entry for MYM. hope your kids are feeling better now. thank you very much for visiting my entry. =)
aw sorry to know you and the kids are down with flu but get well soon.
this is a nice trip, sis! i hope to get to that place someday. =)
ive been to a rizal shrine in Dipolog and the relics i saw are impressive. i felt in a way that Rizal was really there many many years ago.
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Hope everyone is feeling much better.